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Reducing network cost while improving its availability

IP and optical wide-area networks cost too much for the revenues they are able to generate. Equipment costs are going down, but not fast enough for the traffic growth. One of the most promising ways to reduce cost is multi-layer interworking. SDN can play a big role too, however, the technology is not well understood.

Network Operators

We can help opertors figure out whether they should deploy agile and elastic optical networks, what savings they can achieve from SDN for optical and multi-layer networks, what are the risks involved, and how to address the operational challaneges in adopting these technologies. Our analysis is unbiased by vendor specific  agendas.

Equipment Vendors

We can help equipment vendors figure out which optical and multi-layer architectures to pursue, what level of control plane is necesary and how to improve their SDN offerings to achieve a competitive solution. For vendors with established plans around multi-layer interworking and SDN, we can review these plans and provide an unbiased and cool-aid free perspective. 

Up and down the foodchain

Sub-system vendors, management software vendors and analysts will benefit from a thorough alaysis, tailored to their specific interests, of network architecture trends, allowing them to plan ahead to meet future market needs. We believe our perspective to be unique since it is based on understanding of what is feasible in practice and not just marketing collaternal from euqipment vendors.

Interview at FutureNetworkSummit (FuNeMS) 2013

Short interview on challanges the optical networking community is facing and how they may be addressed via intereworking with the IP layer

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