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Wanted: Cost-efficient, scalable solutions for the operator access network
If you are a mobile or fixed network provider or offer cable TV services, you are probably facing a situation similar to most operators across the globe. Continuous increases in demand for home connectivity solutions, enterprise access, mobile backhauli...
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Time to upgrade your ROADM-based metro or regional network?
Over the past decades, WDM networks have evolved from simple point-to-point systems to advanced, interconnected, mesh architectures. This has been driven by Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) and the underlying Wavelength Selective Sw...
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The path to smarter distributed access in the service provider network
Consumer demands for a richer internet experience, as well as emerging applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) and even autonomous cars, are driving a growing need for enhanced broadband communications capacity. Cable TV broadband providers with v...
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As easy as this!
Optical equipment is obviously state-of-the-art technology and most people assume you need a crowd of PhDs just to keep it up and running. But do you? In this video, we test that assumption by letting someone else have a go. Want to try it out yourself?
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What is a SAN ( Storage Area Network) and how does it protect mission-critical workloads?
Enterprises increasingly see downtime as a substantial risk, given that just an hour of downtime can cost $700,000. The most surefire way to secure uptime for mission-critical workloads is to have a solid disaster recovery plan with synchronous data mir...
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What is Fibre Channel used for?
Many enterprise data centers with SANs for mission-critical workloads and sensitive data subject to regulatory requirements rely on Fibre Channel. One of the reasons is the ability to prevent data loss and downtime with powerful security features and sy...
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What is DWDM and when should you use it?
The connected society now taking shape depends on robust and future-proof networking solutions for a range of fiber optic network applications – from corporate and governmental data centers to service provider networks. DWDM is increasingly a key ingred...
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What 400ZR means for todays DCI and metro networks
Both enterprise data centers and metro networks face increasing data traffic as the connected society takes hold, which puts pressure on network performance. This has driven the development of 400ZR for enabling 400G speeds with flexible hardware config...
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Four ways of transporting data optical network
The most common approaches for transporting data over a fiber network is by using single channel connectivity, embedded XWDM solutions or active, transponder-based WDM platforms. Each alternative is based on an organization’s access to dark fiber, eithe...
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The role of transponders and muxponders in fiber networks
Enterprise data centers and service providers face increasing demands for data security, low latencies, higher speeds and longer distances in their networks. Transponders and muxponders are both key components for upgrading and enhancing their network i...
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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) explained
As enterprise and service provider networks have grown in size and scale, they have also become more complex and challenging to manage. One of the main drivers of this complexity has been the rise of disaggregated networks comprising components from dif...
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The role of fiber optics technology
As the world has grown more connected and data consumption has increased exponentially, methods of transmitting data have become all the more important. From a technological standpoint, fiber optics has served as a key enabler of these trends, setting a...