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Belgacom Takes a Smart Turn

April 17, 2012 | Ray Le Maistre |

MUNICH -- Ethernet Europe 2012 -- With bandwidth demands growing at 20 to 25 percent a year, Belgacom SA is looking to meet that challenge by adding extra intelligence into its metro service routers and not just adding extra capacity.

The operator's director of WAN, Internet and Security Services, Tom Wuyts, told Light Reading about its "smart networking" strategy at the Ethernet Europe event in Munich Tuesday. It's an approach that enables Belgacom to offer new enterprise applications, and classes of service, without its customers having to deploy expensive new CPE, as he explains at about the 40-second mark in this video:

Belgacom's director of WAN, Internet & Security Services explains the operator's approach to 'smart networking' and how it's helping it take cloud services to all of its enterprise customers

Wuyts also talked about using class-of-service capabilities to enable enterprise users to make the most efficient use of their bandwidth by being able to prioritize their most important applications.

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— Ray Le Maistre, International Managing Editor, Light Reading



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