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tagged with Optical networking posted in November 2011

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MRV: Carrier Ethernet

11|30|11   |   2:29   |   No comments


MRV Senior VP Dave Stehlin discusses technology integration and OAM for Optical Transport and Carrier Ethernet equipment in both telco and cable markets
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Ciena CTO: Intelligent Bandwidth & the Cloud

11|29|11   |   2:28   |   No comments


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
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Life after SONET

11|28|11   |   4:27   |   No comments


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
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The Full Monty: Ciena CEO Gary Smith

11|25|11   |   23:06   |   No comments


The long version of our recent interview with Hall of Famer Gary Smith, including a few extra bits
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Interview: Ciena CEO Gary Smith, Part 3

11|23|11   |   4:34   |   No comments


Wrapping up our exclusive interview, Smith discusses how telecom is changing and why bandwidth demand is real this time
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Equinix Ethernet Exchange

11|22|11   |   1:36   |   No comments


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
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Interview: Ciena CEO Gary Smith, Part 2

11|22|11   |   3:54   |   No comments


In part 2 of our exclusive interview, Smith talks about avoiding the 'rock-star' CEO image and the tactics for keeping acquired employees in the fold
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Interview: Ciena CEO Gary Smith, Part 1

11|21|11   |   4:21   |   3 comments


In part 1 of our exclusive interview, LR Hall of Famer Gary Smith looks back on Ciena's acquisition history
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Carrier Ethernet Innovation

11|21|11   |   03:30   |   No comments


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
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Low-Latency Market Expanding, Sidera Says

11|15|11   |   4:23   |   No comments


Financial services drove the initial push, but other verticals, such as education and health care, are now buying low-latency service as well
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How Ready Is MPLS-TP?

11|15|11   |   04:32   |   No comments


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
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AboveNet: Connecting to the Cloud

11|11|11   |   06:20   |   No comments


AboveNet COO Rajiv Datta talks about the role that high-quality, dedicated Ethernet services can play in a cloud services world
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XO's Nicklas: Ethernet Still Needs Work

11|11|11   |   6:02   |   No comments


From the chipset up, Carrier Ethernet still faces technical challenges, says XO Communications CTO Randy Nicklas
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LR Live!: EENY Day 2 Update

11|11|11   |   2:04   |   1 comment


The second day of Ethernet Expo included talk about MPLS-TP, 100G and, yes, the cloud
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OTN Inches Toward the Metro

11|9|11   |   4:07   |   15 comments


Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin discusses what he's seeing in the evolution of OTN and the packet-optical network
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LR Live!: EENY Day 1 Update

11|9|11   |   2:17   |   2 comments


New products, Ethernet exchanges and (lack of) latency highlighted the first half of Ethernet Expo Americas 2011
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NEC Puts OpenFlow on the Market

11|7|11   |   3:18   |   2 comments


Having gone commercial with a hybrid OpenFlow switch, NEC gives us some thoughts on what competition will be like
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OpenFlow Slices Up the Network

11|7|11   |   4:50   |   No comments


The power of the OpenFlow protocol could be in virtualizing the network, Christos Kolias of Orange explains
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OpenFlow's 'Centralized' Problem

11|4|11   |   2:45   |   1 comment


The OpenFlow protocol often gets criticized for creating a single point of failure, but Omar Baldonado of Big Switch says that's not the case