Research firm, Heavy Reading, defines “P-OTS as a platform that combines SONET/SDH, connection-oriented Ethernet, DWDM and, depending on where the platform is used within the network, also optical transport network (OTN) switching and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs)” As per Heavy reading, there is a growing trend now, with more and more operators asking about […]
API is the most powerful feature of SDN- the programmable network. It will open a world of opportunities in terms of flexibilities and features for both operators and app developers. The current networks are rigid and make operators “lock in” to vendors. SDN will help avoid this lock in by making a network a flexible […]
In cloud, lies opportunities for carriers. What traditional cloud has not been able to achieve, carrier cloud has all those ingredients to deliver. What makes carrier cloud different than traditional public and enterprise clouds? First few words about what is public and enterprise cloud? Public Cloud are designed on the concept of “ Scale Out” i.e. as […]
In my last post, I had explained that it would be bandwidth in-efficient to carry TDM over Ethernet/IP links; today I came across an interesting white paper by Heavy Reading which indirectly does point to this fact and argues that it is better and efficient to keep TDM traffic completely over TDM network. The white […]
Let’s face it. As an operator, you are faced with a situation of deciding between circuit emulation over Ethernet and carrying TDM data as pure TDM transport; what would be your choice? In fact! There seems to be some confusion regarding the extent of efficiency when circuit emulation is used to carry TDM data over […]
NFV is all about visualizing network as seen from the perspective of IT. It leverages standard IT industry virtualization concepts to consolidate many network elements onto industry high volume servers, switches and storage. The network is visualized as servers that will be able to deliver services to operators as they are given by today’s hardware […]
The past year was hectic in terms of discussions regarding what could the next client rate for Ethernet and at the same time discussions were going on to decide the next line rate. There was a debate on whether the industry should go for 400GE or jump straight to 1 Terabit. Earlier in the same […]
Packets in MPLS are routed according to preconfigured label switched paths (LSPs). When packets are received, label lookup is performed from which it is identified to which LSP packets belong to and hence it identifies the next hop of the packet. GMPLS generalizes the concept of MPLS. Instead of the concept of labels, GMPLS uses […]