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Cisco's co-founder wants to simplify fiber optic networks
After leaving Cisco 17 years ago, Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack started a new company. The man and his company have been quietly working away in semi-seclusion, partially because of a non-compete agreement that Mr. Bosack signed with his former company. That all changed about a year ago; his present...
Tags: Fiber-optic Network, Network, Fiber-optics, Cisco Systems Inc., XKL, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Michael Kassner
Blog posts 2008-04-24
BC School District 67 Optimizes Security and Productivity for Tech-Savvy User Base
A technology pioneer, British Columbia School District 67 Okanagan Skaha, is the province's only district with a centralized fiber optic network, which it shares with the City of Penticon. BC School District needed a solution that eliminated the threat of malware, maintained productivity, and optimized network performance. As a solution...
Tags: AppSense, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Networking, Cyberthreats, Security, Telecommunications
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Optimizing Backhaul Bandwidths in Wireless Networks
As operators migrate their wireless networks from 2G to 3G, optimizing the backhaul bandwidth from these new bandwidth-intensive networks becomes critical to profitability. This webinar reviews ways of addressing requirements using multiservice switches, Sonet/SDH equipment, and WDM platforms.
Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Wireless Network, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Optical Networking, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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Klein Independent School District (ISD): Optical Network Ensures a Bright Future for Growing School District
Klein ISD is a sprawling suburban school district that covers 87.5 square miles of north Harris County, Texas. Klein ISD needed to upgrade a 32-site Metropolitan Area Network MAN whose voice system was producing an annual telephone bill of over $500,000 and whose data system was running at 75% to...
Tags: Optical Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Klein Independent School District, Ethernet, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications
Case studies
Premiere Canadian Federal Government Department Uses optical networking Solution to Integrate Multiple Separate Networks - Reducing Costs and Increasing Performance
The client is a large Canadian federal government department supporting consulting, telecommunications, and engineering initiatives in the public sector. The department was looking to achieve cost savings and increase the efficiency of the communications services delivered by the network it had in place. The department implemented a managed optical service...
Tags: Performance, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Department, Client, Networking, Ethernet, Frame Relay, Data Centers, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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The City of Calgary Improves Collaboration and Communications Among Emergency Response Teams With Nortel Networks Optical Ethernet
The City of Calgary provides local government services to nearly one million residents. Ensuring the timely response to emergencies is essential to city services. To meet these needs, the City of Calgary implemented a new computer-aided dispatch CAD system to integrate the electronic communication among police, fire, and emergency medical...
Tags: Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Emergency Response, Online Communications, CAD, Ethernet, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, Security, Software, Telecommunications
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Montefiore Medical Center Deploys Nortel's Optical Solutions for Advanced Healthcare Applications
Established in 1884, Montefiore Medical Center MMC serves the Bronx and southern Westchester County in New York state. As a large and leading healthcare provider, MMC recognized the wealth of new modalities and technology available to support advancements in patient care, including a Picture Archive Communications System PACS involving the...
Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Optical Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Networking
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Grant County Public Utility District Supports Fiber Optic Network Rollout With Remedy
Grant County PUD is a municipal corporation of the state of Washington. When the PUD began rolling out broadband services, each of the four groups involved in the rollout used a different method for tracking its piece of the service delivery process. The PUD team decided to build a custom...
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Fiber-optic Network, Network, Fiber-optics, Remedy Corp., Grant County PUD, It Management, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, It service Management, Telecommunications
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KPN IMS Calls on HP SANs to Ensure Business Continuity Services
KPN Integrated & Managed Solutions KPN IMS, a provider of managed-hosting services based in The Netherlands, sought to develop new uses and markets for its fiber-optic network capacity. One of the key target markets was long-distance data replication and recovery services, already mandated for many industries and necessitated by the...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAN, IBM IMS, Business Continuity, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Storage, Networking, Telecommunications, Hardware
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Ciena Selects Marimba's Castanet as a Vehicle for Efficient Delivery of Customer Care, Fiberoptic Tool Set
CIENA Corporation, the leading provider of optical networking systems for telecommunications companies, selected Castanet to serve as the backbone for delivering a new family of business-critical customer care tools to mobile field service technicians. CIENA wanted to leverage the delivery system used to provide their fiber-optic diagnostic tools, called SmartTools...
Tags: Marimba, CIENA Communications, Marimba Castanet, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Productivity, It Management, Networking, Telecommunications, It service Management
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Chelan County Public Utility District Creates Integrated Customer Information System Wth PeopleSoft
The Chelan County Public Utility District - located in north central Washington state - provides electricity, water and wastewater services, and a growing fiber optic network to its customers. Chelan County Public Utility District PUD wanted to replace its legacy customer information system CIS with a new system that would...
Tags: Information System, Oracle Corp., Human Capital, Financial Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Telecommunications
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Embarcadero Technologies Case Study: Optical Solutions
Optical Solutions designs, manufactures, and markets the only true Fiber-To-The-Home FTTH Passive Optical Network PON, for voice, video and data to Service Providers worldwide. Software in Optical Solutions' products is embedded, and because it operates behind-the-scenes, customers expect it to work hassle-free. Optical Solutions also recognized a huge opportunity in...
Tags: Embarcadero Technologies, Optical Solutions, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Broadband Internet, UML, Telecommunications, Networking, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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Sun Microsystems Case Study: West Bay Semiconductor Inc.
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, West Bay Semiconductor is focused on making the high-density optical networking chips for the growing optical networking systems market. One of West Bay Semiconductor’s key objectives is addressing an important issue in its industry - that of cycle time. West Bay Semiconductor adopted Sun Microsystems’...
Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., West Bay Semiconductor, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, Telecommunications
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Engineering a Campus Network: IIT Kanpur
IIT Kanpur's 1000-acre campus has a robust network of 5000 nodes on a fiber optic backbone and extends LAN connectivity to every hostel room. The institute had to provide its students the necessary technology skills to upgrade or share their knowledge. There was a need for a robust campus network...
Tags: Network, Fiber-optics, Cisco Systems Inc., Campus, IIT Kanpur, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, LANs, Optical Networking, Networking, Routers & Switches, Telecommunications
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Apple Computer Case Study: Stillman College
In 2001, Stillman College was at a crossroads. With the goal of enabling greater access to technology for all of the private liberal arts college's 1500 students, administrators were reviewing their options. In the early stages of the college's technology evolution, Stillman's IT team began installing a fiber-optic network throughout...
Tags: College, Mobile Computing, Apple Inc., Fiber Optics, Handhelds, Optical Networking, Wireless, Networking, Telecommunications, Hardware
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Building a Smart City Through Wireless Technology
Few years ago, the capital of New Brunswick, Fredericton, was struggling to provide its municipality and local businesses with the IT infrastructure necessary to power the latest technological tools. With the risk of losing industries to larger cities, Fredericton launched its "Smart City" initiative. The initiative included the creation of...
Tags: Wireless Technology, Fiber-optics, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Networking
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Differential Delay Aware Routing for Ethernet Over SONET/SDH
The Virtual Concatenation protocol in SONET/SDH has ushered in a novel routing paradigm that enables a circuit to be "Split" and routed over multiple paths. However, this diverse routing causes differential delay among the paths which can impact service if not accounted for in the routing. This paper introduces the...
Tags: Aware, Lucent Technologies Inc., Formulation, SONET/SDH, Alcatel, Programming, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Ethernet, Networking, Development Tools, Telecommunications, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers
Line System Design for DWDM Networks
State-of-the-art Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing DWDM allows data transport with very high capacity, measured in terabits per second, and very long reach, thousands of kilometers. One current DWDM technology arranges network elements into line systems, where a line system is a path consisting of alternating network elements and optical fibers....
Tags: Network, Network Element, DWDM, Line System, State-of-the-art Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, Optical Networking, Networking
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Cooperative Data-Optical InterNetworking: Distributed Multi-Layer Optimization
This paper presents a novel approach for joint optical network provisioning and IP traffic engineering, in which the IP and optical networks collaboratively optimize a combined objective of network performance and lightpath provisioning cost. A framework is developed for distributed multi-layer optimization. This framework is built upon the IP-over-Optical IPO...
Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Solution, Optical Network, Optimization, Network, Formulation, Provisioning, Domain, Framework, Alcatel, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, Telecommunications
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Complexity of Wavelength Assignment in Optical Network Optimization
This paper studies the complexity of a spectrum of design problems for optical networks in order to carry a set of demands. Under Wavelength Division Multiplexing WDM technology, demands sharing a common fiber are transported on distinct wavelengths. Multiple fibers may be deployed on a physical link. The basic goal...
Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Optical Network, Optimization, Goal, Alcatel, Fiber, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications
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