Demand for undersea cable bandwidth is expected to rise 33 per cent per year between 2008 and 2015, according to Telegeography. This may erase the bandwidth glut from the Internet boom, evening out prices
Although the expiry of its current network is looming, CANARIE just might be singing a bit longer thanks to the efforts of two Canadian telecom players.
Alidian Networks announced availability of its new ASI software, ATM Service Intelligence, which the company says will let its Optical Service Node family of products perform virtual path muxing.
Although both are positioned as low-cost optical access alternatives, passive optical networks (PON) and coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) are complementary technologies that together can maximize fibre efficiency, analysts and vendors say.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) is in the middle of a two-year migration from a mostly mainframe and decentralized client-server model to a storage-area network (SAN) that will centrally control more than 15TB of internal data related its to its US$23 trillion worth of securities.