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Zhensheng Jia, assistant director at ZTE, introduces the technical advantages of 100G product especially on DSP and SD-FEC modules, a number of field deployments worldwide, and also the pioneered achievements on 400G and 1T research
Ron Johnson, director of high-end routing and optical at Cisco, discusses some of the emerging trends in the marketplace. Ron addresses things that are driving the demand for Ethernet along with the challenges and advances to meet this demand
Ralph Santitoro, director, Carrier Ethernet market development, Fujitsu, discusses the MEF Carrier Ethernet Study Guide and new announcements from Fujitsu, including the FLASHWAVE 9500 and NETSMART 1500 Software
Heavy Reading’s Sterling Perrin and Doug Junkins, CTO of NTT Communications, discuss the rapid rise of 100G transport and the drivers and requirements for a terabit transport future
Zeev Draer, VP of strategic marketing at MRV, discusses how convergence of layers and monetization of services drive networking for service providers and how real estate issues are creating the need for efficient optical and packet platforms
T-Marc 3312SC from Telco Systems brings Ethernet/MPLS mobile backhaul to
the cell site with best in class density size and price performance for
mobile operators and wholesale backhaul providers, learn more in this
interview at Ethernet Expo NYC
Toshal Dudhwala, product manager at Ixia, talks about the some of the initial OpenFlow/SDN applications in the networks, testing requirements and Ixia OpenFlow test solution
In the Ethernet world, it's about customer experience. Speed is the key to success; with focus on service delivery, agility and assurance working in concert. John Hawkins of Ciena shares his insights on what it takes to win in today's market
CoreSite COO Jarrett Appleby discusses CoreSite's focus in building data center campuses to support and scale cloud and private networking solutions as well as the company's work with the networking and cloud community to build a home for the cloud
Overture CEO Mike Aquino discusses virtualization, cloud and SDN – and how it can accelerate service providers' ability to create, sell and activate services
Alcatel-Lucent is providing flexible, scalable, simplified solutions for the next generation of heterogeneous networks. From 100GB interfaces to 60GHz radios, Alcatel-Lucent is driving mobile backhaul innovation
tw telecom has one of the most secure, scalable and resilient business Ethernet networks in the country. Adam Saenger, senior director of portfolio management, shares how customers can flex their bandwidth with Dynamic Capacity
Vitesse Semiconductor CTO Martin Nuss discusses the unique challenges for small cell deployments and the importance of nanosecond-accurate timing in 4G/LTE and LTE-Advanced networks
Adtran is working with customers to deliver new, innovative solutions for every ingress point in the network. These innovations are enabling service providers to accelerate change; quickly launching next-gen services. The only constant is change
Glenn Calafati, vice president of product development at Sidera Networks, talks about the drivers for network investment, the move towards 1 Tbit/s, and the need for greater clarity on carrier-grade SDN
Donald MacNeil, CMO at XO Communications, discusses Carrier Ethernet 2.0, the timing of the operator's 100Gbit/s service launch and the potential for software-defined networking (SDN)
Mike Schabel, VP of the Small Cells Division at Alcatel-Lucent, discusses how to deliver affordable mobile service to meet today's data service demands in public spaces with Metro Cells
At the Broadband World Forum, Broadcom's vice president and general manager for Broadband Carrier Access, Greg Fischer, talks PON chips, vectoring, next-gen Wi-Fi and his love for John Belushi's guitar-smashing antics
Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Colt's Mirko Voltolini discuss opportunities and challenges for network operators in the cloud era as well as some of the key enabling technologies for adapting transport networks to cloud demands
At the Huawei Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China, Hu Yuelin, Vice President of Fixed Access Product Line at Huawei Technologies, shares Huawei's new 'FTTH' interpretation and highlights the role of Huawei's SingleFAN in ultra broadband networks
The emergence of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 and cloud computing has highlighted the importance of wholesale Ethernet, class of service and Ethernet service management to carriers around the world. Overture CEO Jeff Reedy shares his thoughts on these trends
The vendors have delivered packet-optical systems, and it's up to XO to do something good with them, CTO Randy Nicklas says. Meanwhile, he's also eyeing the potential of OpenFlow. From the Packet-Optical Transport Evolution conference
XO CMO Don MacNeil sees content of all kinds and data center interconnectivity driving his wholesale business, which in turn is driving the operator towards 100Gbit/s Ethernet
Given the disruptive potential of software-defined networking, what's going to happen to routers as we know them? Stuart Elby of Verizon gives us his theory
Light Reading's Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference will see lots of discussion about the optical control plane as vendors prepare for far-off plans in cloud computing and software-defined networking
OpenFlow and software-defined networking were the talk of Interop. Light Reading sits down with Dan Pitt of the Open Networking Foundation to explore the reasons why
T-Metro 8000 provides industry’s first open architecture platform with best-in-class Carrier Ethernet/MPLS density, scalability and price performance for cloud, mobile backhaul and business services
What problem is software defined networking even trying to solve? David Ward, from Cisco's CTO office, tells the Open Networking Summit how service providers could approach that question
RAD’s Ethernet Service Aggregation Platform works magic for Service Providers. New 3U device includes 1588 Grand Master and highest capacity-to-size ratio in the industry: supports 80 GbE, multiple 10 GbE and TDM pseudowire
At OFC in Los Angeles this year, Ovum's Research Director Ron Kline and Huawei expert Kent Jordan discuss the significant potential of Huawei's PPXC technology in tackling the demands of networks in the future
At OFC in Los Angeles, Huawei Technologies gave a live demonstration of their 400G prototype. Sterling Perrin of Heavy Reading, and Peter Stassar of Huawei Europe's R&D center, discuss the development of this technology and its future potential
After a successful year of 100G deployments in 2011, Heavy Reading’s Sterling Perrin and Huawei's Fei Zhu, Ph.D. discuss Huawei’s 100G deployments, the key technological advances of 100G partnered with OTN switching, and where it will go from here
Ovum’s Research Director - Ron Kline and Huawei’s Director of Photonic Applications - Andy Shen, Ph.D., discuss the successful role of PID in Metro networks today and consider its development and importance for networks in the future
Industry leaders from Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Heavy Reading and Infinera discuss how super-channels scale networks without scaling operations and the benefits of photonic integration
Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock explains how 100G improves latency, when the costs might be right to see 100G in the metro and why Verizon supports flexible grid technology
Google's Milo Medin reminds us that cutting network costs makes sense because the average revenue per user that any one service provider can extract from its customers is limited
Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin gives us an update on 100G and we discuss how close the industry is getting to settling on the next leap forward in transport bandwidth
Dan Blumenthal of the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center describes some key research areas and explains the idea of splitting up a modulation space. From the OSA Executive Forum at OFC/NFOEC
Huawei's Xipeng Xiao explores key trends reshaping metro networks, including the use of a single metro for fixed and mobile broadband convergence and BRAS functionality moving down to the metro edge
Operators face a number of challenges as they build out their IP networks. Heavy Reading senior analyst Stan Hubbard identifies some of those key issues, including convergence, interoperability and network visibility
Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Sterling Perrin and representatives from Reliance Globalcom, Level 3, and XO talk about the benefits and challenges of deploying 100G today
8:00 AM Ahead of the annual FTTH Council Europe event in Munich, we ask Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie about next-gen PON developments and the development of FTTH services in Europe
Addressing the shortcomings of current packet-transport platforms, ECI Telecom launches the Apollo family of Optimized Multi-Layer Transport Platforms for the true convergence of the optical and packet layers
Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Sterling Perrin talks about the drivers, benefits and challenges of colorless, directionless, contentionless and flex spectrum ROADM networks
Fujitsu’s James Anthony illustrates how OTN is enabling new service opportunities by providing a simple high bandwidth pipe for large scale data services
Eitan Schwartz, RAD’s VP of Ethernet Access, discusses the advanced feature sets that have recently earned multiple awards for RAD Carrier Ethernet demarcation products
MRV Senior VP Dave Stehlin discusses technology integration and OAM for Optical Transport and Carrier Ethernet equipment in both telco and cable markets
LRTV spoke with Steve Alexander, CTO of Ciena, about how the advent of new cloud-computing services and platforms is dependent on the availability of intelligent network bandwidth
Russ Esmacher, senior manager for IP NGN at Cisco, talks about life after SONET, upcoming deployments in MPLS-TP and why Cisco sees 100-gigabit technology being widely deployed in 2012 across the network
Similar to NSPs, cloud and financial firms also face the challenge of aggregation for private interconnectivity, a problem that can be solved by Ethernet exchange. Inclusion of these non-network communities creates a richer and broader marketplace
John Hoffman, senior director of Ethernet Product Management at Tata Communications, says there has been significant innovation in the Carrier Ethernet sector during the past year, especially in terms of operations, administration and management (OAM) capabilities
Ixia's Tara Van Unen provides the test equipment vendor's take on the readiness of MPLS-TP, saying there's still more work to be done on vendor interoperability
U2Net is a next-generation network architecture for the IP video and cloud era. It adapted to meet the demands of the two major evolutions in broadband networks: video service evolution from IPTV to IP video, and integration of services to cloud
Pyramid Research analyst Sylwia Boguszewska explains why fiber-to-the-home/building (FTTH/B) investments are being made in some European countries but not others
EXFO's innovative approach to characterize, validate and turn-up backhaul links within 15 minutes. The comprehensive Backhaul Tri-PAK is a one field-optimized testing solution eliminating today’s backhaul challenges. One tech, one tool, one time.
Next-generation passive optical networks promise massive bandwidth, new services and improved manageability, all at reduced costs. China Telecom has big plans to bring next-generation services to its massive customer base
Dr. Surendra Saboo, President and COO of Neutral Tandem presents EtherCloud℠, a new product that delivers end-to-end global Ethernet solutions, interconnects diverse networks, and simplifies delivery of Ethernet and VPLS services on a global basis.
Today’s Ethernet is not the in-building connectivity technology of the past. It has evolved to become the means by which service providers deliver applications, content and communications across the globe
Tareq Bustami from LSI talks about how data centers need to be re-architected with more intelligence to contend with the rise of virtualization, video, cloud services and pervasive mobile Internet access
Ovum Consulting Director for APAC Nigel Pugh explains the concept of ultra broadband and says it's not just about speed, but about service availability and quality too
