Five network challenges of the future trend of development of enterprises

With the emergence of cloud computing and accelerate the deployment of large and ultra-large-scale data, data centers, network managers must constantly readjust and further development of the network. Under the impetus of this challenge, a variety of new technologies and new standards have emerged, not only can be used to improve and optimize the network capacity, security and flexibility, while controlling costs. Let us look at the top five trends in 2015 and the network to the user's meaning.

Trend 1: 802.11ac rapid spread

Enterprise networks are at the peak of a new era of mobile computing, tablet PCs and smart phones can be seen everywhere in the workplace. As the number and deployment of enterprise cloud services, mobile devices continues at an alarming rate of sustained development, network managers must rethink how they will provide the protection and control of enterprise computing resources and information access.

According to IEEE 802.11ac standard, 5G 802.11n wireless technology when compared to its predecessor, not only three times faster, the power efficiency is improved by six times, while maintaining the 802.11n and legacy 802.11b/g/a wireless interface interaction operability. Infonetics recent data show that sales of 802.11ac access points increased by nearly 10-fold in the past year. This gives enterprise technology managers to better manage and protect their network connection point tremendous pressure.



Figure 1: Wi-Fi technology evolution shows that the development process as well as the rapidly growing exponentially handling capacity over the past 15 years, currently 802.11ac (5G) has reached 3.6Gbps. 802.11ac access points 10-fold increase in sales to the enterprise has brought enormous pressure.

Trend 2: wiring closets 2.5G and 5G coexist

With 802.11ac Wi-Fi Wave Release 2 flow rate through the access point will be more than thousands of megabits per second, we need an access point and Ethernet switch port expansion to 1000 Base-T (1G) above. However, due to the length it has been put into use over five and six cable of millions of feet of business operations are seeking through this existing single pair unshielded twisted-pair copper to fill vacancies between 1G and 10G.

802.11ac Wave 2 standard will usher in a progressive multi-user MIMO antenna technology and other technologies to help the theoretical maximum wireless speed up to 6.93Gbps. With respect to the typical 10 times the speed of the Ethernet trail, this creates opportunities for faster Ethernet speeds and quickly upgrade to a rate of 2.5G and 5G. Although the newly installed equipment will be used wisely to support 10G super six cable, but most of the existing installed base will stay in 1Gbps, or when you need more than 1Gbps uplink rate using 2.5 / 5Gbps rate.

Existing programs in a variety of industries through existing five / six cable support 2.5G / 5Gbps same time, the industry needs a unified standard to avoid confusion between the various solutions and non-interoperability. This might give this potential emerging market adversely affected. The good news is, IEEE 802.3 standards bodies are working on the multi-rate Gigabit Ethernet BASE-T program by 2.5G and 5G used in enterprise access point.

The focus of this work is the need to achieve the goal in the near future and is currently installed through UTP (100 meters 2.5G) and six (100 meters 5G) cable. Because of limited bandwidth, convenient way to achieve this is to use a higher modulation scheme.

Join in the wiring closet Ethernet link protocol 2.5G and 5G rate, not only will achieve enterprise access point network bandwidth low-cost expansion, but will also provide more data rate options for IT professionals.

Trend 3: Data center 25G, 50G and 100G

Enterprise and cloud environments network operators must comply with technical roadmap carefully planned build its own network in order to expand based on changing needs. Typically, these carriers must maintain the lowest possible capital and operating expenditures (CAPEX / OPEX) while the balance of performance optimization. One way to achieve these often conflicting objectives is to upgrade to higher-speed Ethernet technology.

Experts predict that the biggest cloud service providers to upgrade to 100G Ethernet architecture, and low cost 25G and 50G will continue to be the majority of the other well-known companies in the data center of the main force. 25G / 50G Ethernet Alliance is a relatively new organization, it has its 25G and 50G Ethernet specification is open to all suppliers of data center ecosystem (royalty-free) to create and deploy interoperable Compliance product implementation. The standard can accelerate 25G and 50G Ethernet ports widely deployed, it also happens to be synchronized with the cloud architecture suitable for the introduction of 100G Ethernet.

25G / 50G standards may appear to be some kind of backwards, because 40G and 100G Ethernet already exists, but it is mainly used to meet the needs of lower-cost rate, especially low-cost speed demand cloud data center servers. For example, 25G and 10G wiring have substantially the same cost structure, but the performance is 2.5 times the 10G. Similarly, 50G cost is half of 40G, but the performance increased by 25%.

Trend 4: Cloud-level network

How can companies reduce mobile network costs while improving efficiency and flexibility of their IT infrastructure? Virtual networking, storage and servers are reshaping the way businesses use IT. Cloud computing plays a crucial role in this process, you can provide network access to computing resources and a huge amount of complex applications.

Cloud technology to provide more capacity to fully meet the third-party business or small business increasing demand, which can provide enterprises with a need to invest in new IT infrastructure will be able to increase the capacity of the route. Will host processing and data to the cloud, it frees capacity of network managers, they can create the capacity re-allocated to the data location and control device generates the data. Ethernet networks can be designed to achieve low latency and high bandwidth, can fully meet the needs of all the efficiencies of cloud computing to achieve its value.



Figure 2: Cloud-level network has three elements, namely, the physical network layer, network services and SDN and NFV platform support. The physical network layer elements can provide a blueprint for efficient network design. Low-cost network services can be expanded to achieve high performance for all workloads, while SDN and NFV can achieve dynamic service configuration and faster innovation and deployment.

Trend 5: Open Source Network

Cloud-level network without software is useless, and each part of the switch also requires the operating system. The software must provide a hardware-independent network operating system, an abstraction layer on a commercial switch chip, like Linux and Windows provide the same abstraction layer on the server side.
 
Eliminate patent barriers and allows developers to collaboration, debate, integration and motivation to each other, is an important advantage of open source network. Gartner predicts 2015 open source technology will be included in 85% of commercial software packages, 95% of major IT companies will use some elements of open source software.

For decades, customers have been buying servers, patent portfolio data storage, networking and software. Now, these customers require the system to use a different approach with, so open source software can be combined with existing hardware and its internal legacy systems. This method is expected to bring advantages to mix and match the speed, cost and innovation.

Traditional "one factory dominant" proprietary solutions are into "flourishing" multi-vendor mode. This can be a significant cost savings for customers in any market area and bring noteworthy performance optimization for them. And now the challenge has been transformed into how successfully integrated these systems suppliers. Fortunately, the server and PC market to provide a template, which can be through a new open-source hardware, open source software and open standards will combine all of this complete integration.

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Calix access network operating system introduced SDN AXOS

Broadband access equipment vendors Calix today announced Linux-based operating system access to scalable AXOS, to help operators introduced in the access network level SDN.

Calix representation, AXOS can achieve all access networks require software functionality without having to rely on the underlying hardware and related chipsets premise, allowing the network infrastructure and ongoing service provision always-on, accelerate operators' revenue recovery, reduce service failure rate and operational complexity.

AXOS contains a modular reusable software unit that can run on different hardware, support for self-promotion, automatic failover, and avoid some common human or software problems. Calix think open software-based programmable management and control API reduces the complexity of network operations, automate business flow, while providing compatibility with other SDN system. All components used AXOS NETCONF protocol and YANG data model.

Calix senior systems VP Michel Langlois said that more than a decade, Calix has been in pursuit of a unified access architecture, customers can achieve seamless connection to the business. Use AXOS, Calix has a single software platform, so operators can more easily and intelligently distribute traffic across the access architecture. AXOS users can have a wider choice of devices and chips.

Calix said it G.fast platform, and E5-520, E5-308, E5-306 MEF CE 2.0 recognition systems and other products are beginning to support AXOS.

European operator Colt launched SDN-based DCI business

European telecom operators Colt has launched on-demand SDN / NFV technology provides data center interconnection services DCNet as-a service. This enables the user to obtain business data center 10Gbps interconnection across Europe. Colt will be carried out next month test run wholesale customers and finance, media areas of business users. DCNet self-service will be the first port in the heart of London, Paris, Frankfurt and other places, 57 third-party data centers. Colt is expected in early 2016, this service will be extended to the whole of Europe and Asia-Pacific 150 data centers.

Colt representation, SDN / NFV feature will provide integration with cloud services, shorten the service provision progress, providing high SLA more flexible business model, the user can port-based self-service under a single and independent business changes. SDN will transform the telecommunications industry has brought fundamental business model, change the way operators and user interaction. Colt's Novitas plan is not just a technology upgrade, it is the transformation of a business model.

ZTE signed a framework IP/WDM supply agreement with Telenor

ZTE has said that reaching a global framework supply agreement with Norwegian multinational mobile operators Telenor, including IP/WDM network devices. This agreement will greatly facilitate future ZTE to Telenor offers include various communication devices for optical transmission products.

Agreement contains a series of hardware devices, including IP core, metro Ethernet, IP RAN equipment, such as ZTE's core network and metro ZXR10 T800 IP RAN aggregation ZXR10, M6000-S, ZXCTN 9000-E, as well as access net ZXCTN 6100 series, as well as ZXR10 5900E and ZXR10 8900E MPLS switches. In addition, ZTE will also provide ZXONE 9700DWDM Telenor internet.

General manager of ZTE's bearer network product line represented Xu Ming, products and services included in this agreement, Telenor is well in line with the market strategies and technological development in the field of bearer networks. ZTE will continue to focus on mobile broadband development needs of the customers, helping Telenor for its global customers better service.

10Gtek will attend at SC2015 - fiberonsale.com

Event Update: 10Gtek will be present at SC 15, held at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, NOV 16-19, 2015, with a booth to display its latest release: 100G QSFP28 DAC Cable, 25G SFP28 DAC Twinax Cables and optical transceivers, etc.

We hereby sincerely invite you and your company representatives to visit our SC15 booth 3208. It will give you a comprehensive idea of our whole portfolio.

We are expecting your coming!

10Gtek will attend at SC2015 - fiberonsale.com


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ZTE, MTN South Africa jointly released GPON service broadband network speed boost

ZTE joint communications provider MTN South Africa officially opened in South Africa in George gigabit fiber-optic broadband (GPON) network services, brought Fast-bandwidth fiber optic network experience on the one hundred local residents. After the introduction of this technology in Africa, it is expected to raise the overall progress of the African fixed-line broadband, significantly increasing the average user's wired network access experience.

According to ZTE COMESA sale at CTO Lu Xun introduction, GPON network technology currently in Africa in South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria and other state-owned large-scale deployments. It has high bandwidth, high efficiency, large coverage, rich user interfaces, etc., it is regarded as most operators realize business broadband access network, integrated transformation of the ideal technology.

Ishant Sukdeo MTN marketing manager, said China's information communication technology has matured in recent years, the progress of cooperation with the Chinese company well. He further pointed out that with the promotion of ZTE GPON technology applications experience, reliable equipment, advanced technology, can meet the needs of MTN.

Currently, the South African government is focusing on improving its broadband policy and facilities, with a view to 2020 broadband Internet penetration increased to 100%. According to reports, MTN will be mainly carried out against the country's fiber optic network business end users, ZTE will continue to assist the MTN GPON network construction, is expected to reach 50,000 users in one year, so that tens of thousands of family experience in South Africa and Europe as user The bandwidth rate.

CALIENT, Spirent jointly launched the software-defined optical device testing scheme

MEMS optical switching vendors CALIENT has announced and Spirent test instrument manufacturers together to create a joint for automated optical network hardware test environment optical switching solutions. Calient optical line S-series switches with Spirent's Velocity speed test platform coordination software, Velocity platform Calient S320 and S160 optical circuit switch-based control, provides the physical layer topology reconfiguration optical network test environment.

Calient and Spirent's joint testing program for more than 40Gbps optical transmission equipment test environment, the software can automatically adjust the test line, thereby reducing the risk of wiring error ride, speed testing, to achieve centralized test management.

Spirent's Velocity is a laboratory that is serving Lab-as-a-Service LAAS test coordination platform, can achieve a variety of physical and virtual testing equipment management and monitoring.

Calient company said the network equipment vendors are quick to support 100Gbps and SDN technology upgrade, which means a lot of new opportunities related to testing. Spirent's industry-leading Velocity platform with a unique Calient MEMS-based all-optical switching products are the next generation network equipment powerful test solution.

Huawei released 2Tbps router line card

Huawei has released 2Tbps line card for its NE5000E core routers. The product is the backbone of the application provides higher port density. The line card supports 100G, 40G, 10G Ethernet at different rates, helping a total switching capacity of NE5000E router reaches 32Tbps per rack, power consumption as low as 0.8W/G. In addition, the product can be based on the elastic programmable chips allow NE5000E better distribution system compatible with the new SDN architecture.

Gai Gang Ethernet product line president of Huawei routers and telecommunications said Huawei 2Tbps router line cards to meet the needs of users to ultra-broadband service deployment, accelerate the industrialization of high-end routers. Huawei is very pleased to help operators build a sustainable and efficient network to help them adapt to the rising demand for cloud services, while continuing to reduce costs.

2016 100G technology in the network equipment market will be a breakthrough year

IHS today announced network ports: 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, 100G report, the corresponding statistics for each port technology and the growth rate of speed.

"Deploying more than 1G network ports continue unabated, whether business or service provider. In general, the higher the port speed, the higher the growth rate, which means 40G and 100G are key growth areas of the market. However, in 2014, as China's massive increase in GPON OLT expenditure, as well as North America gigabit FTTH deployments, 2.5G products increased the most. "Matthias Machowinski IHS enterprise networks and video research director said. "Looking ahead, we expect 40G revenue began to fall in 2017, the demand for enterprise and data center move to a new release based QSFP 100G technology."

For operators of transmission networks, IHS research director believes that 2016 was a breakthrough year for 100G coherent technology, such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon to massive ultra-large-scale data center launched 100G Ethernet switching technology.

IHS expects: 1G / 2.5G / 10G / 40G / 100G port shipments in 2015 will be over 700 million, amounting to $ 45 billion, compared to 2014, 100G port shipments more than doubled, to 163,000 ports .

IHS predicted five years from 2014-2019, the global income 100G ports will be 137 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) growth.

IHS expects 10G networking port spending to grow 70%, 100G to grow 262% from 2015 to 2019

Hong Kong FTTH penetration has reached 82%

On 8 September 2015, held the world's ultra-wideband Forum, Peter Lam PCCW-HKT, general manager of engineering department director level to share broadband development in Hong Kong.

Peter Lam expressed, PCCW has 100% of pay-TV, Huawei also our partners in the mobile space, and last year our entire network can achieve 300M bandwidth, and now we can achieve 3 carriers mobile network bandwidth. For residential customers in Hong Kong, he introduced a lot of high-rise buildings has become a landmark in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, more than 80 percent of the buildings are high-level, in this real estate layout, PCCW already has 82% of FTTH penetration, we can realization within four days of the fiber to the home, while FTTB penetration reached 77%.

PCCW past many networks are copper network, starting in 2010, PCCW begin large-scale FTTH deployment, Peter Lam further stated, HKT is Hong Kong's largest ISP, we are very proud that we are the first optical fiber instead of copper network in Hong Kong operators, is also the largest IPTV provider, which gives us a double benefit, fiber to the home for future consumption of high-bandwidth pave the way, to promote the development of mobile services, LTE network, 100% fiber ensures the 100M back pass rate. Other operators are required to rent mobile backhaul networks.

PCCW customers currently installed basically 500M to 1G networks while PCCW has begun deploying 10G networks to the home, which for PCCW to enter the field of intellectual life has brought convenience.

SPTN technical architecture

SPTN system architecture consists of the forwarding plane, the control plane, management plane and application plane composition, shown in Figure 1.

SPTN technical architecture


When the number of network elements of a network control capability is greater than the controller needs to perform NE-level multiple controllers to control. In order to meet the networking needs of large carrier-class network control plane using hierarchical control architecture into the domain controller (D-Controller) and Inter-Domain Controller (S-Controller), in which the D-Controller is responsible for control within the business, and forwarded to the interface control surface equipment through the South. S-Controller is responsible for inter-domain control of the business by calling the North D-Controller provided to interface to complete the resource coordination and operational scheduling of the entire network, cross-domain cooperative control of network resources.

In SPTN system architecture, management plane still persist, management will continue to be responsible for forwarding plane resources and version management, alarm and performance monitoring surface and controllers to meet the needs of network operation and maintenance.

ZTE help Indian operator Reliance to build 100G metro optical networks

Recently, ZTE announced with India Reliance Communications (hereinafter referred to as "Reliance") signed a 100G OTN optical transport network orders. Over the next three years, ZTE will provide two cities in Pune and Hyderabad 100G optical transmission network design, site survey, installation, commissioning, maintenance and other services. ZXONE Series devices meet the Reliance offer comprehensive multi-service access and high integration requirements. Low TCO is a major factor in the ZTE she won this order.

Reliance in the Indian market share of 14.35%, is India's top four operators. But with mobile Internet access LTE era, the current network of SDH networks are increasingly unable to carry data traffic surge in demand. ZTE 100G OTN solutions to help Reliance rapidly into the era of 100G metro transport in Pune and Hyderabad two cities, greatly ease the pressure LTE network bearer.

It is reported that ZTE has the industry-leading OTN development platform, its high performance 100G OTN products, easy maintenance, low cost and other characteristics of the most Reliance recognized. ZTE 100G OTN has a high level of integration, from E1 / T1 to 100GE any access rate, client port supports smooth upgrade path 4-22, coarse dense wave unity; at the same time, the efficient performance of the product, to achieve port adaptive, DSS cross , L2 switching aggregation, CPRI transmission and other functions; in addition, OTN package supports the full overhead light layer / dielectric layer control, unified network management easy fault location and service configuration, effectively increasing the efficiency of operation and maintenance.

BTI shows virtual broadband gateway at SDN & Openflow Assembly

Canada recently for optical transmission manufacturers BTI 7800 Packet Optical Transport equipment increased for central office applications, virtual networking features. BTI7800 virtual network edge functionality to support application server-based boards, supports third-party applications. BTI will exhibit this product at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany on. BTI in the field will use 7800 platform to support software-defined virtual gateway SDN-vNG software applications based on Active broadband network card, showing virtual broadband gateway functions. Site of the exhibition will also use a OpenDaylight SDN controller to manage the entire NFV optical platform.

BTI global market VP Sally Bament said that the development of this product has been driven by a number of leading operators. They are eager to promote the strategic cloud computing and virtual networks. He also noted that, BTI is building a NFV industry ecosystem. Active broadband network is one of them. Other applications may also include a virtual router, another BTI will also develop some of their own SDN applications.

Coriant released new version of SDN transmission controller

The optical transmission system vendors Coriant has released new Transcend SDN transmission controller. The product supports multi-layer, multi-vendor environments, committed to multi-layer optimization and interoperability standards-based service to simplify network operations, support faster service provisioning, improved resource utilization. This product is an upgraded version of last year's devaluation Coriant SDN transmission controller. The main characteristics of the new product include:

* By supporting IETF RESRCONF interfaces and YANG model number voice to support more efficient business exchange.

* New automatic and programmable service provision and management capabilities, including SLA monitoring and user-defined SLA parameters to achieve a more convenient service provider.

* Fault light layer of a multilayer perception PCE path computation unit improved resource utilization. Operators can now deploy resources according to the service request and SLA parameters.

* As the network of virtual and variable levels of network abstraction to implement flexible network segmentation.

Coriant company CTO Uwe Fischer noted that a multi-vendor environment, resulting in a lack of effective exchange operators could not face a large-capacity low-cost dynamic business needs. The new version of the SDN transmit controller gives users a simple, programmable, the actual demand for the SDN tools.
 
Coriant indicates that the SDN controller has been deployed to the customer's network test run.

Lightreading invite you to explore the white-box strategy

Telecommunications equipment industry and network equipment industry is experiencing a "white box" of the revolution: the original design and manufacture hardware devices being generic white box server switch plus device-specific SDN posed by open source software gradually replaced. White-box device with greater flexibility, enabling faster service provisioning, and thus can lead to greater business opportunities for customers. Currently, users are white-box equipment from the traditional enterprise network, data center users gradually to the wide area network, operator core network expansion.

White box equipment already in the data center is the major Internet companies, including China, including the widespread use of BAT. Facebook advocated OCP platform, Baidu and other plans to build a Scorpio, are aimed at white-box applications. These Internet companies generally use OEM manufacturers to help them carry out the production of white box equipment. Future, this model can be extended to the field of telecommunications equipment, I believe that is the issue we are concerned about. By then, the entire telecom equipment industry may be changing.

In exchange, for example, the traditional switch mainly by a dedicated chip or ASIC chip built hardware platform plus composition embedded operating system and management software. With the development of SDN / NFV technology, the importance of software in the switch products is growing. Some switch manufacturers such as Arista, has already started to collect software and hardware costs to the user, respectively.

Switch on the white box chain, Broadcom, Cavium, as well as Suzhou Centec have achieved a leading position. Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, Mellanox, and Suzhou Centec are based SDN / NFV switch chip providers. HeavyReading April this year, a report once called chip Centec has a lower cost. Third-party software providers such as 6Wind, Big Switch Networks as well as IP Infusion Inc., Pica8. Arista, Compass also OS on a system to make innovations.

Lightreading website will be available this November 17, organized by the service provider network whitepack day strategy seminar in California, Santa Clara, invite white-box manufacturers and users around the world to discuss the opportunities and challenges of white box equipment brought to the network industry . Entire white-box industry chain, including device manufacturers, switch manufacturers, software providers, system integrators, operators are invited to the column by.

Lightcounting cut annual optical module market growth

Market research firm Lightcounting latest quarterly report in September this year a combination of the first half of global operators, Internet companies and communications equipment, devices and corporate earnings since the third quarter shipments data and dynamic communications companies. Their analysis shows some interesting results.

LC pointed out that the second quarter of this year compared to the year before, the investment in Internet companies in the field of large data centers increased by 7%, while telecom operators to invest in the telecommunications sector decreased by 12%. Reduce telecom operators to invest mainly receive complete the world's major telecom operators some major investment projects, such as China Mobile LTE deployment, while the growth rate of the Internet companies to invest in the situation significantly better than in previous years.

Year comparison, sales of data communications equipment manufacturers in the field of growth of 2%, telecommunications equipment grew by 4%. White box manufacturers continue to win market in the area of ​​data center equipment. In the field of telecommunications equipment, Huawei and ZTE continue to gain market share. Pressure on prices may be a factor, but operators have become cautious in the evolution of SDN / NFV may also be the cause.

Device manufacturers in the data communications segment grew 10%, an increase of 7% in the field of telecommunications. Increased deployment of 100Gbps device should be the reason behind this beautiful figure, the price is usually higher 100Gbps devices. Divided by product type, the following figure shows the different types of optical components market performance in the second quarter. Optical connector market growth, although high, but due to low prices, overall sales remain low, slightly higher than $ 50 million. Broadband construction to benefit from China's, FTTx market continued to maintain a rapid growth. China's future investment in LTE-building wireless networks will also stimulate the growth of optical device market. Overall, Ethernet and WDM optical devices is still the bulk of optical components market.

2015 2Q14 sales growth


In the August report, Lightcounting had predicted annual optical module market growth of more than 25%. But then some of the light module manufacturers lower growth, the Chinese market situation may change, Lightcounting decided to optical module market growth from 25% down to 15%. Even so, the annual light module market will reach $ 4 billion. The rapid development of emerging companies may supplement the decline of traditional manufacturers performance.

AOI publish data center with 100G optical engine

Analog and digital optical components supplier AOI (Applied Optoelectronics) has introduced 100Gbps optical engine for data center use. The product is built four laser, detector arrays, optical arrays and associated drive electronics for parallel 100Gbps optical modules and other design PSM4 QSFP28.

The main features of the product include:

• AOI Texas MBE Fab homemade laser chip

• Highly reliable non-seal design to improve the cost-effective

• Built-in laser driver and TIA chip simplifies design

• Patented thermal design

• Provide MSA compatible and pigtail packages

AOI indicates that the product has begun to provide samples, the amount of the year is expected to produce. According Lightcounting forecasts, bulk sales 100G QSFP28 module will appear in the second half of next year.

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