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Ray Le Maistre talks to Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, and Gee Rittenhouse, head of research at Bell Labs, about Green Touch, a revolutionary new project aimed at reducing power consumption in the global networking sector by a factor of 1,000
Network operators are faced with a number of challenges. Decreasing revenue growth, increasing IP and multimedia traffic, and customers who now attach value to content rather than to networks. Ciena's John Marson and Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin explain that the answer lies in a move toward service-driven networks.