With a minimum of five thousand servers on a ten thousand square foot or larger footprint, hyperscale data centers are continually challenged by increasing bandwidth, storage, computing power, and speed requirements. The rapid scalability that defines hyperscale computing can only be accomplished through a combination of new hardware (horizontal scaling) and improved performance of existing […]
Accurate and traceable time stamps have become a financial trading imperative to protect investors and adhere to regulatory requirements. Who made what trade? When? Did it complete as intended? All simple questions. Read why ensuring accuracy of this information has become a complex business. Timing and synchronization have become top concerns for finance IT managers. […]
The undeniable efficiency, speed and near-term cost savings associated with moving 5G virtual network functions (VNFs) to the cloud makes it a potential path operators must explore. Learn why this approach is not without risks and which testing practices help overcome these challenges. For starters, it’s completely unproven. As we covered in a previous post, […]
The status-quo of early 2020 no longer exists for the corporate network. The pandemic threw a wrench into the architecture and network operations that businesses had relied upon. The ongoing transition has necessitated and accelerated changes for people, processes, and technologies. I recently took part in an executive roundtable with Bloor Research and members of […]
The cloud offers businesses a tantalizing vision of cheaper, faster, and more agile computing. However, the advent of global, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments has presented IT operations teams with a radically more complex infrastructure to manage. It has been ten years since Amazon first revealed that every 100 milliseconds of network latency cost them 1 […]
5G cloud, let’s demystify it What do we mean by the cloud? What are the different types of cloud environments? What parts of a telco business and network can be moved to the cloud today, and what are the possibilities for the future? VIAVI demystifies the cloud… In part I of our two-part blog, we […]
5G cloud, let’s demystify it: Part I What do we mean by the cloud? What are the different types of cloud environments? What parts of a telco business and network can be moved to the cloud today, and what are the possibilities for the future? VIAVI demystifies the cloud… Q: What links an online bookseller, […]
Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is being adopted by service providers and equipment manufacturers to reduce infrastructure deployment costs and to lower the barrier of integrating innovative product developments. Read about the advantages and challenges emerging in that process, and how testing helps speed up O-RAN deployment. In O-RAN, the distributed unit (DU) is connected […]
Private 5G networks and the factories of the future Picture the scene… A self-driven lorry parks up at a loading bay at a car manufacturing plant, expertly guided into place by sensors. A forklift truck wheels itself into place and a mechanized arm lifts pallets from the lorry. Goods are extracted, weighed and scanned – […]
Timing synchronization within and across datacenters is the lynchpin of 5G data integrity. Operators need to ensure the time difference between any two datacenter servers is accurate within 100 microseconds. Read about ways of avoiding inaccurate timestamps and meet regulatory requirements. We previously explored why this has been so difficult for datacenter operators, especially in comparison to […]
