April 2, 2020, 8:46 p.m..
New services including video streaming, cloud services and mobile broadband are driving IP/MPLS core network traffic demand at annual rates of 35% to 85%. At the same time service providers’ bus ...
April 2, 2020, 8:42 p.m..
Data center traffic scale and volatility are growing in response to these data center changes. Traffic flow patterns are changing as well. In addition to the traditional flow of traffic from servers t ...
April 2, 2020, 8:40 p.m..
Connection-Oriented Ethernet holds great promise for creating a single aggregation and transport metro infrastructure. It provides the flexibility and scalability of Ethernet with the performance, rel ...
April 2, 2020, 8:34 p.m..
MPLS-TP is a standard under development by the IETF for packet optical transport networks. The key objective of the IETF effort is to provide a universal standard for packet optical transport that mai ...
April 2, 2020, 8:30 p.m..
ACG analyzed the total cost of ownership of meeting requirements for scale and flexibility in the mobile multimedia core for the Cisco ASR 5500 and a leading competitor’s solution. The analysis found ...
April 2, 2020, 8:28 p.m..
Alcatel-Lucent announced a new family of core routers, the 7950 XRS. They provide an integrated P-Router and Label Switched Router (LSR) solution with high port and slot density per chassis to deliver ...
April 2, 2020, 8:23 p.m..
Cisco CloudVerse is a comprehensive architectural approach. It treats multiple data centers and networks as a vast pool of dynamic resources that constitute the cloud. It uses the visibility of applic ...
April 2, 2020, 8:19 p.m..
The Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS core router provides an integrated P-Router and Label Switched Router solution with high port and slot density per chassis to deliver increased scale and higher efficiency ...
April 2, 2020, 8:15 p.m..
Many service providers want to integrate packet and optical using IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) technology. ACG has investigated how a specific vendor, Cisco Systems, is delivering solutions to help wit ...
April 2, 2020, 8:13 p.m..
High traffic growth, service diversity, cloud services, escalation of service threats and low core utilization are creating challenges for service providers’ core networks. Although Cisco leads in mar ...