By Stuart Benington, Director of Portfolio Strategy – November 21, 2011 / 9:39 AM
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.
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By Juan Luis Balbas, Director of Technology, Latin America and Caribbean – November 15, 2010 / 2:40 PM
A survey of 400 attendees at this year's Futurecom trade show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, revealed that service providers have a major challenge: how to handle Internet traffic cost-effectively.
That's not exactly shocking news.
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By Stuart Benington, Director of Portfolio Strategy – October 15, 2010 / 10:57 AM
Making networks more green is a goal everyone in the telecom industry shares. The opportunity is so extensive it can be difficult for service providers to decide where to begin.
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By Bert Buescher, Director, Product Management – May 27, 2010 / 12:51 PM
Mobile Internet traffic is growing like crazy. We all know it. In fact it was the topic of the first slide in every presentation at an optical conference I recently attended.
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By Bert Buescher, Director, Product Management – April 15, 2010 / 11:06 AM
The economic recession has just about everyone trying to figure out how to cut costs—at home, at the office and in the network. To reduce the cost per transported bit, some industry players say all you have to do is build a network made up of lots of IP routers and dumb optical pipes. Just converge all services onto an all-IP infrastructure. You get a lower-cost network that's easier to maintain than legacy SONET/SDH and WDM networks, right? Not quite.
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