Even as networks struggle to adapt to changing customer patterns and surging demands for bandwidth, telecommunication providers must …
Data Center Interconnect
Demystifying 400ZR and ZR+ Coherent Optical Technology: Webinar Replay Now Available
If you missed the Fujitsu co-sponsored webinar, “400ZR and ZR+: Enabling Next-Generation Data Center Connectivity” or want to listen again, …
Expanding the Scope of Data Center Network Automation
In the data center world, downward pressure on operations costs, coupled with the demands of managing large numbers of devices, has produced …
These Four Tenets are the Secrets of Hyperscale Optical Transport
The ever-expanding demands of data center interconnect were never going to be easy to address. Data center operators facing constant …
DCI Growth Planning and the Bandwidth Amplification Effect
As more and more traffic is driven into data centers, in turn pressure builds between and among data centers. This phenomenon is known as …
Top 10 Things that Favor Packet-Driven Networks
Several technologies, such as Ethernet and WDM, can be utilized in a packet-driven network (PDN). PDNs are a common approach to aggregation …
What the NFL Tells us About DCI
Data Center Interconnect has historically been driven by the pressure of simple demand: the kind of demand that’s satisfied by big, fast, …
The Surprising Benefits of Uncoupling Aggregation from Transponding
Data Center Interconnect (DCI) traffic comprises various combinations of 10G and 100G on each service. In a typical application, DWDM is …