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An overview of one of the key challenges that comes with the migration of mobile backhaul to a packet-based network: testing and monitoring performance. As well as a look into how carriers can ensure end-to-end service quality assurance to consistently deliver quality services.
Margaret Chiosi, AT&T Labs' Executive Director of Optics & Ethernet Service Development, says interconnecting networks and managing Ethernet devices are still big challenges for big service providers
Ethernet technology enables an interactive healthcare application that is changing how doctors and patients interact. Optimum Lightpath's Dave Pistacchio describes that service and talks about the need for high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity
Benoît Mercier, AVP Solutions Marketing for Alcatel-Lucent Americas, explains how converged backbone transformation can help service providers cut transport costs by reducing operating complexity of their core networks, capex and opex by 30%, and power costs by 50%
Russell Shriver, Level 3's VP of product management for IP and data services, says carriers need to expand, innovate, and take Ethernet services to the next level
Mzima Networks CTO Grant Kirkwood discusses his company's business plan and how it uses Ethernet connectivity to give enterprises a fresh start in their offices and when outsourcing their network infrastructures
Enterprise customers are realizing that not all Ethernet services are created equal, says AboveNet CTO, Rajiv Datta. Newer, more aggressive service-level agreements and ultra-low latency guarantees are ways that service providers are standing out from the competition
One constant challenge for carriers is their ability to connect with other carrier networks to extend the reach of their services. Service providers here have taken note of the problem, and they weigh in during this news brief
Reliance Globalcom's CTO talks about the importance of managed services and explains why that particular carrier offering is still going gangbusters in a bad economy
