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NewsGlobe: Interviews
NEC plots a 100 Gbps course
New applications drive carrier interest
by Sean Buckley
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While the idea of bringing even multiple Kbps or even a megabit was once thought of as science fiction, today enterprises and consumers are getting multiple Mbps and even Gbps of bandwidth. Such traffic is driving service providers to consider migrating to 40 and even 100 Gbps backbones. In the following Audiocast, Sean Buckley, Editor in Chief of Telecommunications, talks to Rocky Kler, vice president and general manager, NEC Corporation of America, Optical Network Systems Division, about the potential of 100 Gbps networking.
Kler answers the following questions in this Audiocast:
At the recent FTTH Council Europe conference in Paris, France, one of the
opening keynotes called Estimating the Exaflood: The Impact of video
and rich media on the Internet by Bret Swanson of the Progress and
Freedom Foundation talked about new video applications and one of
the drivers to increase Internet traffic. Do you believe that Web-based
consumer and business applications, not to mention increasing FTTH
deployments, are driving service providers to upgrade their networks to
support 40 and potentially 100 Gbps networking?
The notion of 40 and now 100 Gbps transmission has been talked about
for a number of years. What is making 100 Gbps more of a reality
today?
Late last year, Verizon Business conducted a 100 Gbps field trial carrying
a FiOS TV feed in its Florida market, while Level 3 built a non-native 100 Gbps
network for Internet2. Are these trials lending credence to the idea that
100 Gbps networks can work in an actual live network?
Let’s switch to NEC. Can you talk about some of the innovations you’re
working on within NEC to drive the migration to 100 Gbps?
What are the components of NEC’s strategy?
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