Many legacy optical networking solutions reached End of Life (EOL) or End of Support (EOS). These aging platforms—widely deployed in the 2010s—remained in use for metro data centers, cloud, and enterprise connectivity. However, with the growth of AI/ML applications and data centers, modernizing optical networks ...

As networks evolve with higher capacities, Optical Transport Networking (OTN) offers a perfect modernization and growth path for packet services while preserving existing Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) services.  During this session, attendees learned: The benefits of a ...