Verizon boosts 'selected' US backbones to 100G2011-03-31 10:41 by DanielaTags: Verizon, Juniper Networks
Verizon has announced that it will be the first service provider to pump "selected segments" of its US long-haul backbone to 100 Gigabit Ethernet speeds, using Juniper Networks routers and Ciena coherent optical-processing gear. "We've already successfully deployed 100G on a portion of our European network, and now we're preparing to expand this technology to our US network," said Verizon network-planning executive Ihab Tarazi, coming down firmly on the side of simplicity when describing a technology known variously as 100GE, 100GbE, 100Gb/s, and 100Gb/sec. "Advancing to 100G is a significant step in strengthening our global IP network to handle the bandwidth demands of our customers," Tarazi said in a canned statement, "whether it's large enterprises or the average consumer. Besides greater scalability and network efficiencies, we also expect 100G deployment to improve latency on a route-by-route basis." The inaugural routes to which Tarazi is referring will be Chicago to New York, Sacramento to Los Angeles, and Minneapolis to Kansas City. The deployment is planned to go live by the end of the current calendar quarter. Read more -here-
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