DWDM

It is estimated that approximately 22 million*, 10Gb/s Ethernet transceivers were shipped industry-wide in 2018.  Transceivers have numerous applications from mobile backhaul to connecting switches and servers in data centers.  With the multiple applications come varied requirements for reach on the…

Video streaming services are hugely popular, with more and more people determined to stay up to date with the latest series. But for service providers, the challenge is to keep up in a different sense. Because over-the-top (OTT) video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube account for an increa…

Meeting the cost of 5G is major talking point at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year. According to a major German operator, the cost of supplying Europe with 5G connections could be anything between €300 billion and €500 billion . This is a major challenge. Because 5G technology is going to ma…

Our new solution is a cost-effective route to reliable 5G connections – and the innovative services they make possible Over the next years, people will increasingly expect 5G connections and the types of service they can support. And this will lead to increasing demands on service provider networks.…

By 2022 the number of 5G subscribers will be big… and growing fast. Are you ready for the next revolution? Multiple industry reports, including Cisco Visual Networking Index, highlights the growth of 5G technology, and how it will transform the way we use the internet. On average we expect there wil…

Written By Christian Schmutzer, Principal Engineer at Cisco The idea behind Cisco’s Transport Network Modernization solution is simple: allow a single, packet-oriented network to support both connectionless and connection-oriented services concurrently. A number of technology innovations were requi…

I’m guilty of missing the past few Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conferences (PONC), but I’m very pleased that I was able to attend the most recent one in Richardson, Texas.  More than 150 customers, partners and industry analysts were present and several contributed to the event presentations. In…

Some of our recent blog posts, A Requirements Checklist for the Next Generation Transport Network and The Next-Generation Transport Network: Solution Options discussed the business requirements you should consider before selecting a modernization solution and the technology options currently availab…

There are a number of options for modernizing your transport network, including native TDM switching over the optical transport network (OTN), a complete overlay network with routers and DWDM, and finally migrating to packet optical using circuit emulation (CEM). Each option has value, but the value…