Sunday, September 23, 2012

The Case for the Big GEs... and IP-over-DWDM

by Sultan Dawood, Solutions Marketing Manager, SP Marketing Cisco Systems No one knows better than the readers of this publication about the importance of Gigabit networks. The emergence of 10 Gigabit (10 G) links in big networks began more than 10 years ago, and seemed like enough capacity, for a long time. But that was then. In today’s optical conversations, talk tends to center on 40/100 Gig links, all the way up to Terabit advancements....

Researchers Demonstrate 1,000 Terabits per Second over 50km of Fiber

Researchers from NTT, Fujikura, Hokkaido University and Technical University of Denmark demonstrated ultra-large capacity transmission at 1 petabit (1000 terabits) per second over a 52.4 km length of 12-core (light paths) optical fiber -- a new record for transmission over a single strand of fiber. One petabit per second would carry 5,000 HDTV movies of two hours in a single second. NTT said the breakthrough leverages spatial multiplexing optical...

Dubai Builds UAE-IX Internet Exchange Modeled on Frankfurt's DE-CIX

Frankfurt/Main and Dubai, 18 September 2012 - October 1, 2012 marks the start of DE-CIX, Frankfurt's massive Internet Exchang, has provided know-how and support for UAE-IX, an Internet exchange in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). UAE-IX is a neutral Internet traffic exchange platform that interconnects global networks and, above all, network operators and content providers in the Gulf region. UAE-IX is using a fully redundant switching platform...

Frankfurt's DE-CIX Internet Exchange Hits 2 Tbps Peak

DE-CIX, the Internet exchange located in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), hit a new data throughput record last week  as Internet traffic across its switching fabric exceeded the 2 Tbps (terabits per second) mark for the first time. DE-CIX currently servers over 480 Internet service providers from over 50 countries.  At DE-CIX, more than 12 petabytes of data are exchanged per day. "Although the traffic peak of over 2 Tbps marks a new high,”...