Manufacturers continue to find novel ways of helping carriers operate their networks more efficiently, as news today from #Infinera illustrates. The #opticalnetworking company launched what it is calling Infinera Instant Network, which as Infinera executive Mark Showalter explained, gives carriers the ability to “activate capacity before they pay for it, match cost to revenue, and accelerate service delivery.” The capability builds on software defined capacity, which lets network operators pay for network capacity only when it is needed. For example, equipment might support speeds of up to 400 Gbps per line card but operators would pay for capacity only as it is activated. Infinera previously used software defined capacity to support the company’s Instant Bandwidth capability launched several years ago. Instant Bandwidth enables network operators to deposit money into a license store and drop or add capacity as needed on the Infinera optical equipment installed in their network. About half of Infinera’s long-haul customers use the capability today, Showalter said.
http://www.telecompetitor.com/software-defined-capacity-aims-to-make-optical-networks-more-flexible/
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