Overcoming Hybrid IT Monitoring Challenges For one Fortune 500 company, activities of the organization are focused on a single objective: delivering the best quality end products to consumers. With that in mind, the enterprise IT department recently sought ways they could also deliver competitive differentiators to the rest of the business. After careful deliberation, the team […]
In this Olympic year, the motto Citius, Altius, Fortius (Latin for Faster, Higher, Stronger) seems very relevant to where we are with Ethernet networking. We need faster bandwidth, higher levels of service and stronger performance to push around all those videos of cats—as well as the more serious (and less cute) business traffic. Approximately every […]
4G network operators are keen to implement VoLTE in order to be able to deliver a high quality voice experience to their subscribers, and to reduce their dependence on fall-back to 3G technology for voice calls. At the same time they want to keep costs down by carrying voice traffic over all-IP networks, and are […]
This post comes from Viavi’s Optical Security and Performance Products (OSP) business. OSP is a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings, providing light management solutions to government, aerospace, consumer electronics, automotive, anti-counterfeiting and instrumentation markets. It’s not every day that NASA launches a spacecraft into outer space with the mission to study and […]
Monitoring Cisco ACI There’s no doubt Cisco ACI can help get a network up and running fast. Forget manually establishing Access Control Lists (ACLs). That’s automatically handled by ACI behind the scenes now. But at the end of the day, does troubleshooting and finding the cause of network issues become more complex? And how can […]
Recently, a tier 1 service operator in Brazil was faced with the challenge of assuring that the customer experience for all mobile 2G, 3G, and LTE traffic was top quality during the rapidly approaching Rio Olympics. Prior to the games, they had seen network-wide latency issues which were causing problems with their customers’ call quality, such as slow response times and reduced […]
Today’s dynamic lifestyle-connected customer uses a myriad of services and applications and therefore demands a high level of Quality of Service/Quality of Experience (QOS/QOE) delivered to their mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and other network end points. With Ethernet being a primary transport and congregation point for all this data, it is imperative to assure the […]
Locating an interference source is nothing short of finding a needle in a haystack. From a service provider perspective, RF interference is much more than a nuisance. If it is not eliminated, it can negatively impact service providers’ CAPEX, and OPEX, and can cause subscriber churn. In a recent survey conducted by Nokia of 20,000 […]
Mobile Operators face business challenges every day that often start with their biggest asset – the network. These challenges are due to massive non-uniformity, constant change in subscriber behavior, and surging demand for bandwidth-intensive services. For example, consider the demands at a train station – a train pulls up, 200 people get off and they […]
Today I am delighted to announce a major partnership between Viavi Solutions and The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). UNH-IOL is one of the most renowned independent providers of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking and data communications industry. The industry’s top equipment manufacturers and service providers work with the […]