Online Video Driving Demand for 100G
In an interview with Light Reading, Paul Savell of Level3 comments on 100G. In a nutshell, he says 100G is very important, but service providers are struggeling with the economics. He is looking for a new and more cost effective 100GE/OTU4 technology.
He reports the Internet backbone traffic growth is back at 100%, driven mainly by video traffic going online. Netflix, Voddler and other over the top video services are quickly gaining popularity. In the US, Netflix represents 30% of the Internet bandwidth at peak hours, according to a report by Sandvine.
Another point of interest is the increased need for adaptability. Cloud services are mainly driven by IT, not by the networking folks. While packet-based networks are flexible, the equipment serving our public broadband networks is not always designed to cope with unexpected changes of traffic patterns. Neither are they designed to support future protocol innovations developed to make networks better suitable to online video and ultimate on-demand nature of cloud services.
See the complete interview with Paul Savell at LRTV.
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