Today’s telecom service providers are confronting powerful market drivers that are challenging their network operations and business models. …
DCI Growth Planning and the Bandwidth Amplification Effect
As more and more traffic is driven into data centers, in turn pressure builds between and among data centers. This phenomenon is known as …
Keeping the Lights On
In rural areas, groups of towns are often connected by a telecommunications ring or rings. Schools, municipalities, hospitals and other …
Top 10 Things that Favor Packet-Driven Networks
Several technologies, such as Ethernet and WDM, can be utilized in a packet-driven network (PDN). PDNs are a common approach to aggregation …
What the NFL Tells us About DCI
Data Center Interconnect has historically been driven by the pressure of simple demand: the kind of demand that’s satisfied by big, fast, …
Open Networks, Open for Business
For the ICT industry, this nascent era of business models based on cloud computing and OTT content is characterized by a heady brew of …
The Surprising Benefits of Uncoupling Aggregation from Transponding
Data Center Interconnect (DCI) traffic comprises various combinations of 10G and 100G on each service. In a typical application, DWDM is …
Service Provisioning is Easier with YANG and the 1FINITY Platform
Years ago, alarm monitoring and fault management were difficult across multivendor platforms. These tasks became significantly easier—and …
A Unified Network Combining Ethernet and DWDM
Carrier Ethernet is a very successful solution for providing services in a metropolitan area. This technology provides a variety of …