In this service we provide ongoing analysis of developments in global markets for optical transport products in the long-haul DWDM, metro C|DWDM, and integrated packet optical transport; for legacy optical transport products in the SONET/SDN, MSPP, and digital cross-connect categories; and analysis of emerging packet-optical transport technologies + products in the evolving cable/MSO and mobile operator anyhaul environments.
Aug. 17, 2020, 10:12 p.m..
The continuing introduction of 5G will have a profound impact on the infrastructures service providers use to deliver their offerings. The expansion of radio capacity and performance and the increased ...
April 9, 2020, 6:01 p.m..
At the 2016 OFC Conference, Inphi announced its ColorZ technology, which delivers 100Gb/s, 100GHz, fixed dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) in a 4.5 watt, QSFP28 pluggable package. Commensu ...
April 9, 2020, 5:56 p.m..
With the introduction of Infinera Instant Network, Infinera is taking another step forward in its journey toward cognitive networking. Leveraging the experience and broad adoption of Instant Bandwidth ...
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, 8:15 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, 8:03 p.m..
ACG Research’s Evolving IP and Optical Architectures discusses the implications of IP traffic growth and new services on current architectures for operators. It explores the pros and cons of next ...
April 2, 2020, 7:49 p.m..
Networks are becoming more difficult to plan and optimize because of high traffic growth, volatile traffic patterns, changes in network architecture and more stringent service level agreements. Becaus ...
April 2, 2020, 7:48 p.m..
Current approaches to network resiliency are inadequate to meet evolving network performance and cost requirements. Existing schemes such as 1+1 protection meet the sub 50 ms performance requirement b ...
April 2, 2020, 7:42 p.m..
ACG Research compared the nLight approach to protection and restoration to the widely used 1+1 optical protection scheme. A sample 12 node core network was used to make the comparison. ACG's ...