The Way Better Blog
In this blog I will be writing about some of the topics, big and small, facing network engineers and fibre networks and the kind of challenges I have encountered working with our customers over the past 20 years or so.
In this blog I will be writing about some of the topics, big and small, facing network engineers and fibre networks and the kind of challenges I have encountered working with our customers over the past 20 years or so.
While networks handles the increased load from Corona with ease, not all services can say the same. Detecting quality issues in service delivery is much more difficult than checking if the network itself can handle the load. There is probably a million reasons why service quality can degrade even if the network seems to be working fine. The trick to detecting and troubleshooting these situations is use of telemetry and service assurance.
Fiber networks suddenly play a vital role - a life savior for the economy as COVID-19 hits the world. But will the networks cope with the load?
The use of a Point-to-Point in the fiber access infrastructure will ensure support for services in the next phase of the digitalization
I usually don't comment on our competition but recent events such as new legislation proposal from the government in Sweden has sparked a well-needed debate. I commented on the situation for Swedish city networks last week in this IDG article https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.722350/konkurrent-varnar-huawei-stadsnat and also wrote a debat
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange point has been around for a long time and is one of the largest exchange points in the world.
Mobile operators boasts about the fantastic speeds 5G will deliver for mobile communication. One question that keeps popping up is if 5G would not be a better choice than fiber to the home. Why spend a lot of money digging and laying fibre into the ground when 5G can get you there at lower cost?
The distributed nature of a fiber to the home network means that you will have equipment spread out and you might not always do the on-site installation yourself. If every switch has to pass your desk for pre-configuration port before getting deployed into the field you will need to deal with the logistics of getting the units from your warehouse via your desk, packing and unpacking, and clearly marking them so that the right unit goes into the right location.
I love acronyms. You got three of them in the title of this post.
In recent years we got Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Many of the large telcos have invested millions into research of these subjects and are pushing the industry in this direction. Telefonica has expressed high ambitions to move to a completely SDN/NFV enabled network in record time. All the big ones are involved.
Building fibre to the home networks are different from any traditional enterprise or telecommunications network. One of the main differences is the time it takes to complete the network. You make a plan, design a an architecture with VLANs and redundancy and imagine how this will scale as the number of connected customers increase. But then the years go by, because building a fibre network to connect every home in the community can take decades.
In my last post i revealed how dirty a fiber network can be depending on the source of electricity powering the network. I showed how a typcial 24-port access switch might contribute anything between 23kg to 485kg of carbon dioxide per year to the atmosphere depending on the electricity mix and how that can be reduced with lowpower optical modules.