Although meeting exploding demand growth is a popular topic within the submarine networking industry, open discussions on how a significant increase in undersea cable capacity will be protected has been overshadowed. Traditional ring-based protection pales in comparison to the improved level of network resilience offered by self-healing mesh-based networks implemented with an intelligent control plane.

…network features a fully-meshed architecture throughout India. The mesh design enables the network to survive multiple failures caused by either natural disasters or man-made issues, such as accidental fiber cuts. Based on CoreDirector?s industry-leading, standards-based control plane, VSNL?s mesh network…

…operates in networks throughout the world with field-measured availability of 99.9999%, and is field-proven to scale beyond 550 nodes in an intelligent meshed optical network topology. Each node on the CoreDirector FS intelligent network maintains a database of the network topology. Network nodes continuously…

…flexible network infrastructure that allows the service provider to provide value-add services for business and residential customers alike. Key to this is an Optical Mesh Network, which uses an optical control plane to automate both the provisioning and restoration of complex optical networks. During…

…  Delivering on that demands a more intelligent and capable network. * Different dynamic for this network modernization cycle, which I believe is different from previous cycles.  More sustainable.  The economics of the networks that are in place just won’t scale.  Once you scale…

…/SDH networks, protection in an intelligent CoreDirector mesh network is shared across multiple “working” routes using Ciena’s unique FastMesh™ restoration technology that can dynamically reroute services around failures using available bandwidth anywhere in the network. In addition…

…Multi-Service Broadband Network™ couples ATM core switching with advanced optical networking technologies to provide carriers with data, voice, video and Internet services over the platform they choose. "By choosing CoreDirector as the centerpiece of its optical networking strategy Williams Communications…

…Communications (AFN), a network service provider that supplies carrier-class broadband transport services to underserved, as well as primary markets, has selected Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) as its primary optical networking partner. Ciena will supply intelligent optical networking equipment for AFN?s…

…this year was that a submarine cable network – no matter how massive – is useless unless it can adapt to the worst that both man and Mother Nature can throw at it. The need for so-called Survivable Submarine Optical Networks is what optical mesh networking is all about.  Traditional transoceanic…

Optical networks play an increasingly critical role to the survival, prosperity, and competitiveness of global corporations and the end-users they serve. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions for evolving current international networks toward an intelligent and global mesh infrastructure to improve network survivability, extend service reach, gain competitive edge, and, most importantly, reduce network operating costs.