Today, everyone’s talking about capacity and transitioning to next-gen IP networks.
But why, at the end of 2009, did the need to do so become so urgent, in light of the still-existent economic downturn?
“In a word, bandwidth,” Shawn Morris, a senior IP engineering consultant with NTT (News - Alert) America, told TMCnet. “We’re seeing the bandwidth consumed by Internet retailers, CDNs and social networks continue to climb. With the increasing prevalence of Internet video, especially HD video, and the migration of corporate networks from private line service to VPNs -- both layer 2 and layer 3 -- the bandwidth needs are climbing as fast as they ever have.”
Even with economic downturn, Morris told TMCnet during a recent podcast interview that NTT America (News - Alert) has seen no slowdown in bandwidth growth. The company, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, recently addressed this issue at the PCT ’10 conference in Hawaii: As enterprises move their internal IT services to cloud-based environments, the performance, quality and security of the network has become a strategic imperative.
“With the growth of smartphones, media centers and other Internet video devices, we expect 2010 to be a banner year for Internet growth,” Morris told TMCnet. “In turn that means we have to scale the core and our largest customer interconnections, and that’s going to require next-gen Ethernet.”
Times are changing. Learn more about NTT America’s role in the transition to next-generation networks by listening to TMCnet’s recent interview with NTT America’s Shawn Morris, available via podcast.
Marisa Torrieri is a TMCnet Web editor, covering IP hardware and mobility, including IP phones, smartphones, fixed-mobile convergence and satellite technology. She also compiles and regularly contributes to TMCnet's gadgets and satellite e-Newsletters. To read more of Marisa's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by Marisa Torrieri