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Wrapping up the year in sync

I'm encouraged by the progress we've made with synchronization in the past year.

I have a unique perspective of the synchronization issues that operators, suppliers and vendors around the world are facing. This is mostly thanks to my participation as a member of the International Telecom Sync Forum (ITSF) steering group and contributor to the ITU-T synchronization experts group (Q13). 


What kind of intelligence do networks need?

For most operators, bandwidth demands are accelerating faster than they can cost-effectively support. To keep up, operators need to gain more visibility into, and control of, their mobile networks. To get this control and visibility, operators need smarter networks.


Enable a smooth fiber-based Ethernet backhaul migration

This article was originally published in the Fierce Wireless eBook, Telco Backhaul Strategies.

Most operators' ultimate goal is a fiber-based Ethernet backhaul network.  Fiber has virtually unlimited capacity. Plus, compared with TDM or SDH/SONET, Ethernet offers lower costs, greater scalability and flexibility and better support for IP-based applications.

With these benefits, you'd expect operators to rush to implement fiber-based Ethernet backhaul. However, that's not the case.


Building a future-proof IP/Ethernet-based RAN

Friends, family members and even total strangers communicate with each other with an ever-increasing variety of social media and VoIP services. People exchange music, photos and YouTube videos that they want to stream quickly and easily over networks with smartphones, tablets or other mobile devices.

These popular new methods of communicating present new challenges for service providers and their networks.


Tellabs SmartCore® 9200 Series: an engineer's dream project

I've been fortunate to work on new products several times in my career. Most recently, I worked with a talented group of engineering teammates to bring the Tellabs SmartCore® 9200 Series to life.

Developing a new product is always a bit of science, a bit of art, and a bit of controlled chaos. But in this case, our customers gave us a clear message: we need a network that helps us deliver a consistent quality of experience (QoE) while increasing our revenue and reducing our costs.


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