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The buzz around managed network services has been growing of late.  According to at least one industry report, the downturn in the global economy may be the main reason.

 

 

Online pub vnnet.com has an article about a new report by Forrester Research suggesting that "a perfect storm is brewing. Technological change, the technology investment cycle, and difficult economics are combining to push some types of managed services over the chasm."  According to the report "67% of firms used managed telecoms services to reduce costs. More than half chose this option to simplify management, and nearly half felt that they could get better reliability of service than if they used in-house staff."

 



Nortel has made a couple of announcements over the last few days that have highlighted some pretty impressive optical technology leadership.

 

 

Late last week, this press release highlighted a 40gig optical win for LG-Nortel with SK Broadband, South Korea's second-largest broadband provider. Using Nortel's 40/100G solution, SK Broadband is upgrading their 10gig network to 40gig.  With the addition of DWDM capabilities, SK Broadband now has 3.52 terabits of bandwidth (40gig x 88 wavelengths) to address their growing IPTV and HD videoconferencing services -- all without having to lay a single new strand of fiber.

 



This week in Anaheim, Nortel and others in the industry have been showing off their latest and greatest solutions for IPTV.  For service providers looking to offer video and IPTV services to their residential customers, the question that is front and center is simple: can IPTV providers differentiate their TV service from today's existing cable and satellite providers, ensuring enough customers and revenue to justify the up-front network costs required to turn up service?

 

 

For the answer to that question, you should look no further than the iPhone.

 



A new report out by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) highlights the increasing growth of fiber as the preferred means for high-speed Internet access around the world.

 

 

According to the new OECD report that compiled the latest broadband figures from June 2008, fiber now accounts for 9% of the Internet access subscriptions across the 30 OECD member countries.  In fact, fiber has overtaken DSL as the predominant access technology in Japan and Korea (with a 45% and 39% share respectively).

 



Nortel is bringing in customers from around the world for its annual Advanced Technology Summit (ATS), a month-long event that allows Nortel customers to see demonstrations of technologies and solutions from across Nortel's product lines.

 

 

ATS started on October 14 and runs through November 7.  By the time ATS is complete, Nortel will have delivered over 400 private technology demonstrations to over 200 customers from more than 50 different companies.

 

 

Late last week, Nortel issued this social media release that highlights some of the demos at the event, as well as pointing to videos for a variety of the technologies being demo'd.  John Roese also had a blog post last week with details of the event.  Finally, itWorldCanada had this article from Grant Buckler who attended the event.  Most of his article focuses on the huge bandwidth increases to the home that Nortel's new WDM-PON access solution can enable -- though the article also gets into 4G wireless technologies like WiMAX and LTE.

 



International market research firm Infonetics has issued a new report on the global packet optical transport market.  While the report itself is only available to subscribers, the Infonetics press release, as well as a few nuggets of info given to the press, provide some interesting details on the report.

  • The study found that 62% to 72% of service provider respondents plan to increase their 40gig spending each year between 2009 and 2011 and later, and forecasts a 59% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for 40gig from 2007 to 2011.
  • 86% of service providers surveyed expect their packet optical transport networks to save them operational expenditures, of which more than two-thirds expect OPEX savings of at least 11% to over 50%.
  • Infonetics expects 100gig revenue to overtake 40gig revenue in the 2013-2015 time frame.
  • Worldwide 10gig revenues are expected to hit $9.5 billion in 2008, up 30% from last year.
And finally, the Most interesting point for Nortel -- in a series of questions asking service providers to rate the top six packet optical transport network equipment vendors (Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Fujitsu, Huawei, Nokia Siemens, and Nortel), Nortel scored highest for technology and product roadmap. That's quite an endorsement, as the press release says that the study is based on interviews with 29 service providers across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

 



I spend part of my morning in a dentist chair today.  It had been three or four years since my last dentist visit (shame on me), so some of the changes in how things were done gave me a good example of how technology can improve patient care.

 

 

X-rays of my teeth were taken by their new, state of the art digital x-ray machine -- and the x-rays immediately appeared on a PC monitor beside my chair.  The dentist reviewed the x-rays, retook one that wasn't perfect, then was able to determine immediately which of my pearly whites needed the most attention.

 



Yesterday I wrote about a recent Verizon field trial that used Nortel equipment to test the viability of sending 100gig rate traffic over "high loss" fiber.  Today at Light Reading's Optical Expo 2008 in Dallas, Verizon's director of Backbone Network Design, Glenn Wellbrock, said bandwidth demand is driving the need for 100gig now.

 

 

Glenn Wellbrock also provided more details on the field trial with Nortel, which were captured by Phil Harvey in this Light Reading article.  For the field trial, Verizon used the worst quality fiber they could find -- which happened to be in Longview, Texas.  According to the article, Wellbrock said that "The fiber we found was not even being used for 10G, and we ran 100G on top of it."

 



This morning Verizon issued this press release highlighting the recent completion of a live field trial of 100 gig optical technology using Nortel equipment.  Using Nortel's 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine cards on the Nortel Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500, Verizon transported data error-free at a rate of 92 Gbps over a 73 kilometer stretch of fiber in northeastern Texas.

 



Yesterday I highlighted Nortel's introduction with LG-Nortel of a first-to-market WDM-PON solution from the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) show in Brussels.  Below are some pictures from the Nortel booth at the show.  Nortel's booth features the new WDM-PON solution, as well as Nortel's 40/100 gig optical solution.  Click on thumbnails below for larger pics.

 

 

 



Today as part of the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) event in Brussels, Nortel and LG-Nortel today unveiled a new Ethernet Access solution based on WDM-PON technology.  The solution is globally available now, and today's news also included the announcement of a new service provider customer for the solution in the Netherlands -- UNET.

 



This week, Nortel joins other vendors in the industry for two carrier / service provider focused events -- WiMAX World in Chicago and the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in Brussels.

 

 

WiMAX World bills itself as the world's largest wireless and mobile broadband event focusing solely on WiMAX -- with over 8,500 attendees last year.  At this year's event, Nortel will have multiple session speakers, as well as a booth (#801) where Nortel will highlight its recently announced strategic partnership with Alvarion.

 



Philippe Morin Philippe Morin, Nortel President of Metro Ethernet Networks

 

Philippe Morin, President of Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business, has been busy since last week's announcement that Nortel intends to sell the business.  Earlier this week, Philippe did a "mini media tour," talking to multiple media pubs about Nortel's plans to divest the business.  Below are links to the resulting articles, as well as a few nuggets that I've pulled from each.

 



Is there an Internet traffic jam?   Is one coming?  And would you know what it would look like if you saw it?

 

 

While the debate on if the Internet is running out of bandwidth rages on, Nortel has teamed up with InternetTrafficReport.com to create an interactive demo called "Experience 40G" that shows what an actual Internet traffic jam might look or sound like.

 



This week in Berlin, Germany, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is hosting the Carrier Ethernet World Congress conference and expo.

 

 

One highlight at the event is what's being called "the world's largest and most advanced live, public Carrier Ethernet multi-vendor interoperability showcase," where Nortel and dozens of other vendors around the world will show the broad interoperability of their Carrier Ethernet products.

 



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