At the service providers across the globe, the most widespread and native selection is MPLS and not MPLS-TP. The former has broader acceptance, superior interoperability,…
Category: IP
BT Victim of Revisionist “All-IP” History
With neighboring service providers, Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Orange recently announcing aggressive schedules to migrate their networks completely to the Internet Protocol (IP), British Telecom…
Avago’s Spinoff of Optics in Short Term?
While for now, Avago Technologies will be preoccupied with the immense and time-consuming effort of its integration process with Broadcom, not too long afterwards, it…
AT&T/DirecTV: Epitome of Bellhead Ploy
While the industry narrative continues to push the illogical idea that AT&T is leading the pack internationally as a transformational player, the operator has seemed…
Juniper’s Impulsive BTI Acquisition
Regardless of a news report of a very low purchase price for BTI Systems, and despite Juniper Networks’ contention about the acquisition “not [being] a…
AT&T’s “Open ROADM”: More Skepticism
In defiance of AT&T’s uniquely leviathan network involving layers of infrastructure built over many years, the service provider continues to promote further leading-edge concepts that…
Bastardization of “All-IP” by Orange?
The marketization and politicizing of science can result in dire consequences, such as in environmental matters. While the ramifications may be less important in communications,…
Optical “Supercycle” Farce
In one our recent LinkedIn fibeReality page updates, we pointed out: “How can the [optical supercycle] term be used when one of the biggest vendors,…
Infinera’s “Tellabsation”: Back to the Future
Regular followers of fibeReality’s separate, quick-update blog were able to read our latest take on Infinera, as we stated: “We view the messaging [on its…
Infinera: An Unanticipated Destination Point
Given this writer’s justifiable criticism of Infinera for almost the entire existence of the firm, it has been a little awkward to begin suggesting to…
