Battles between telecom technologies are an endless source of entertainment for industry observers, and, somehow, the physical and data link layers seem to attract more than their fair share. For longer than I can remember, standards committees, conferences, the media, analyst coverage and the ma...
Software-defined optical network (SDON) combines software-defined network (SDN) and transport network. It is a research hotspot in the field of transport network management. It has many applications in packet transport network (PTN) and optical transport network (OTN). And in the network manageme...
What Will the Fiber Optic Access Network Reform in the 5G Era?
We have seen 5G’s bandwidth increase, delay reduction and stronger support for the Internet of Things. It also poses a huge challenge to the traditional optical access network. First, for traditional Internet services, the bandw...
