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- Enhancing Managed Services Through MSBG Deployment
- The demand for network-based services has never been greater - or more diverse - than it is today. From consumers, to the SMB, to the enterprise, the demand for access to, transport of, and storage for media-rich, diverse content is at an all-time high. That's the good news. The bad...
- Tags: Managed Services, Network, LSI, Smb/Sme, Organizational Structure, Business Services, Networking, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Storage Media Encryption Key Management for Release 3.2(3)
- The Cisco Storage Media Encryption SME solution enables hardware compression and encryption on the network before data is written to a tape device. With the introduction of the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch and of the Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module line card providing encryption services, the Cisco...
- Tags: Storage Media, Storage, Cisco Systems Inc., Encryption, Cisco Storage Media Encryption Solution
- White papers 2008-04-01
- OMSTPB - Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) Basic Training v8.0
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this intense course, you'll get the skills necessary to deploy a Multiservice Transport Platform MSTP network, including fiber-cleaning techniques, fiber test requirements, and node turn-up. Learn to deploy different dense wavelength-division multiplexing DWDM topologies using Cisco Transport Planner CTP to provision...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Network, DWDM, Training, Cisco Systems Inc., Fiber, Optical Networking, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- OMSTPD - Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) Implementing Data Over DWDM v8.0
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this lab-intensive course, get an introduction to the data features and functions of Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform MSTP dense wavelength-division multiplexing DWDM Release 8. You will learn the important theoretical concepts that underlie data encapsulation and how the concepts are...
- Tags: Card, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, DWDM, Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Card, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- How Cisco IT Migrated TDM Local Access From SONET to OC-192 Infrastructure
- By 2003, 18 more Cisco buildings on the San Jose campus were using so much capacity that customer-provided access would be more economical, but Cisco could not add these buildings to the legacy infrastructure of unconnected SONET rings. The legacy infrastructure had other drawbacks as well, including high management burden,...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, SONET, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Case studies 2007-12-19
- Joint Uplink and Downlink Capacity Considerations in Admission Control in Multiservice CDMA/HSDPA Systems
- TCP-based data flows generate packets and ACKs in two directions, be it in the wireline or wireless networks. In the latter case, packets are typically found in the downlink whereas ACKs are in the uplink. Those two links are asymmetric in the case of CDMA-based High Data Rate HDR/High-Speed Downlink...
- Tags: HSDPA, CDMA, Telecommunications, TCP, Tcp/Ip, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2007-10-25
- Examine the Cisco ONS 15454 MSPP, its components, and a network design example
- The Cisco ONS 15454 is a highly flexible and scalable multiservice platform and one of the most widely deployed multiservice provisioning platform MSPP systems worldwide. Service providers and enterprise customers use it to build highly available transport networks for time-division multiplexing, Ethernet, storage extension, and wavelength services.In this...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Network Design, Cisco ONS 15454, Networking
- Book chapters 2007-10-19
- Nortel Network Case Study: IT-AUSTRIA
- Financial institutions are increasingly centralising their systems and processes, requiring large volumes of data to be transferred from remote branches to major data centres. This placed new demands on the infrastructure of service provider iT-AUSTRIA, which delivers data centre services as well as voice and data services to high-profile financial...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Networking
- Case studies 2007-10-16
- NetVanta 1335 Brings Added Security and Wireless Connectivity to Convenience Stores
- A chain of convenience stores, along with associated retail operations, needed to upgrade their network to accommodate higher bandwidth. Security was a major issue. Wireless networking was needed as well as future support for Voice over IP VoIP. WESCO selected ADTRAN's NetVanta 1335 Multiservice Access Router, NetVanta 150 Wireless Access...
- Tags: Security, ADTRAN, Telephony, VOIP, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless, Networking
- Case studies 2007-10-08
- Danske Bank Slashes Costs and Paves the Way for Expansion When It Taps IBM to Deploy a Nortel VoIP Telephony Solution
- The largest bank in Denmark, Danske Bank and its subsidiaries offer banking, insurance, mortgage, residence sales and capital services. Danske Bank decided to look for a telephony solution leveraging modern Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP technology that would not only save costs, but also support its expansion strategy. Teaming with...
- Tags: Telephony, Nortel Networks Corp., IBM Corp., Danske Bank, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Optimizing Cellular Backhaul Networks With Optical Multiservice Platforms
- Mobile carriers are incorporating more packet-based services than ever before to support emerging voice-over-IP VoIP and mobile data applications. As mobile users increasingly adopt IP-based music, video, and data services, cellular bandwidth requirements are growing exponentially - especially in the cellular backhaul network. Unfortunately, the design of most of today's...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-08-01
- NXTcom bears witness to ROADM's major role in broadband video distribution
- I type: ROADM.You think: ah, short for "Road Map."That may well be the case, but not here at NXTcomm here in Chicago.One of the major themes of this major telecom industry event is greatly I am going to make up a word here efficientized video delivery by use of a...
- Tags: NXTComm, News, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Converge IP and DWDM Layers in the Core Network
- The Cisco IP over DWDM IPoDWDM solution for IP Next-Generation Networks NGNs enables the convergence of service providers' IP and DWDM core networks, increasing service flexibility and reliability while lowering Operating Expenses OpEx and Capital Expenditures CapEx. The Cisco IPoDWDM solution efficiently manages traffic growth through the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier...
- Tags: Network, DWDM, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Optical Networking, Networking
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Attaining End-to-End Service Level Management With Cisco Active Network Abstraction
- With Cisco Active Network Abstraction ANA software, Cisco Systems delivers a radical new approach for managing service provider networks. Cisco ANA creates a virtualized, service-oriented network model that reflects the near-real-time state of every network element and maintains an end-to-end view of the entire network regardless of vendor or technology....
- Tags: Network, Service Level Management, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Active Network Abstraction, Networking
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Challenges and Opportunities for Transport Providers & Mobile Operators
- Although mobile backhaul transport providers have very different needs than mobile operators, their interests dovetail when it comes to efficient and optimized multiservice backhaul networks. Mobile operators are experiencing numerous challenges moving to Triple Play and 3G/4G. They need much more bandwidth, but at a much lower cost per bit....
- Tags: Mobile Operator, Mobile, RAD Data Communications Ltd., Ethernet, Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Advanced Intelligence in Cisco Multiservice Transport Product
- The advent of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer ROADM technology and mesh optical networks challenges the operating model for transport service providers, with SONET/SDH moving to the edge and even being replaced by Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic. Traditional point-to-point Wavelength-Division Multiplexing WDM becomes complex all-optical networking, eliminating the need...
- Tags: SONET/SDH, Cisco Systems Inc., Optical Networking, Fiber Optics, Networking, Telecommunications
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Nortel Network Case Study: Buca di Beppo
- Buca di Beppo, a full-service Italian restaurant chain, continues to grow nationwide since its first location opened in Minneapolis in 1993. Since Buca di Beppo opens for dinner only, daytime calls from customers were being missed. Potential customers calling before dinnertime had no way to make a reservation or place...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., VOIP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Nortel Network Case Study: Avea
- Avea is a dynamic player in Turkey's mobile communications sector, with 17% of the market subscribing to its services. To maintain its competitive advantage in the fast-growing Turkish GSM market, Avea is planning to evolve its core transport network by deploying high capacity next-generation SDH equipment. Avea's existing infrastructure in...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Avea, Networking
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Nortel Network Case Study: SURFnet
- SURFnet wanted to provide flexible, high-bandwidth connectivity to over 180 research and higher education organisations throughout the Netherlands. An adaptive, all-optical, intelligent network was built using a combination of the Common Photonic Layer CPL, the Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 and the Optical Metro 5000. The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Networking
- Case studies 2006-09-19
- Integrating Ethernet in Carrier Class Networks
- Service providers are experiencing a variety of processing demands for handling the growth of Ethernet traffic in converged IP networks in both metro and core environments. IP convergence, with its operational and service agility efficiencies, is leading the way for next generation multiservice offerings. In access networks, and through much...
- Tags: Network, Metro, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-01
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