Weekly roundup | Ciena network Insights | February 11, 2022
Winning the race to the 5G edge with intelligent automation
As CSPs and their ecosystem partners are building out 5G edge infrastructure to deliver innovative digital experiences for their consumer and enterprise customers, they have identified open, programmable, and modular automation solutions as essential to success.
In the Lab: Liquid Spectrum: Photonic Performance Gauge
Ciena’s Alex Mackay provides an overview of Photonic Performance Gauge, the latest addition to Ciena’s family of Liquid Spectrum™ Analytics Apps.
The need for universal aggregation
ABI Research’s Dimitris Mavrakis looks at why concepts like Universal Aggregation are necessary for service providers to continue operating healthy and profitable networks into the future.
Aimed predominantly at short-reach, single-span fiber optic links for Data Center Interconnect (DCI), 400ZR is an interoperable networking Implementation Agreement (IA) released by the OIF in March 2020.
