Increasing budget constraints and growing demand for huge amounts of network bandwidth are forcing organizations to wrestle with the option of building dedicated private networks, or continuing to buy managed network services. Building a private network—whether campus, metro, regional, or nationwide—becomes more attractive with the need to support big data, mobility, and data center consolidation, or to enhance the reliability and security of highly sensitive and critical data.
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Sometimes More Is More: Advantages of a Private Optical Network
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