Speakers at “The Evolution for Next-Generation Optical Networks” workshop session at ECOC 2018 in Rome delivered a compelling vision of next-generation optical networks and how they will support cloud and 5G services. The presentations from experts at operators, equipment suppliers and academic institutions based in the US, China and Europe were very well received by the audience […]
Look Into the Future of Optical Networks at ECOC 2018
Key developments and research for future optical networks will be discussed during a workshop at ECOC 2018 in Rome, Italy, presented by experts from operators, equipment suppliers and academic institutions based in the US, China and Europe. The future bandwidth available through 5G mobile and fixed line networks depends heavily on the development and deployment of advanced […]
ON2020 Looks to the Future at ECOC
Following a successful workshop at OFC in March this year, ON2020 has spent the summer surveying the network needs and evolution strategies of leading network operators and is ready to share the results during a focused session at ECOC 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden. This will be a unique opportunity to better understand the long-term requirements for optical networking beyond […]
ON2020: Driving Innovative Optical Network Solutions
As the optical networking community gathers at OFC’17 in Los Angeles, we are seeing an unprecedented number of new technologies and solutions being developed and there is a compelling need for companies to work together to ensure that the combination of these innovative optical network solutions meets network operator demands. Optical Network 2020 has recently […]
Come & Talk Components at BCE 2016
This year’s Big Communications Event (BCE) in Austin, Texas, will include a Components Track dedicated to the semiconductor, optical and platform components enabling the 4G/5G virtualized wireless infrastructure and data center interconnects up to 400G. We are seeing major changes to the mobile network infrastructure. The industry has moved from 2G/3G networks to heterogeneous networks […]
Mobile Data Bandwidth Challenges Wireline
The demise of wireline connections has been widely predicted and some consumers no longer have fixed lines. As I sit in my office in the countryside my broadband delivers 5Mbps down stream but only 0.3Mbps upstream; this is better than many nearby who only get 0.5Mbps downstream. My phone connects to 4G and already delivers twice […]
Intel and ARM Go Head-to-Head in the Data Center
The same day that Intel announced the Xeon processor D-1500 family, ARM said it was targeting 25 percent market share in servers by 2020. The Intel Xeon processor D-1500 family are the first Xeon class processors with integrated networking, something customers have been asking for, and was already available in competing ARM based solutions. The 14nm devices build […]
LTE will be the Connectivity of Choice for IoT
The rapid growth in LTE-enabled devices and carrier networks is opening up new opportunities develop solutions that can truly deliver connected things and the Internet of Things (IoT). WiFi, Bluetooth, EnOcean, 2G/3G are all wireless technologies that are used for connecting things to the Internet. The first three rely on local hubs supporting the right […]
High Performance Virtual Switch for SDN/NFV
Virtual switches are an important element in solutions for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and the performance of virtual switches will have a significant impact on the success of these solutions. Open vSwitch (OVS) is an open source virtual switch implementation supported by many industry leaders developing solutions for SDN and […]
Accelerating Security
Security is a vital component of any data center or communications solution. Security functions implemented in software can be slow and in many systems require a disproportionate percentage of processing power. Security accelerators are a cost-effective solution to accelerating security functions in servers and network appliances. The latest Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx Series devices dramatically […]