Source: Smartoptics Enterprise data centers and service providers face increasing demands for data security, low latencies, higher speeds and longer distances in their networks. Transponders and muxponders are both key components for upgrading and enhancing their network infrastructure to meet these demands. We’ll take a look at how transponders and muxponders work and when to use them to help you optimize your fiber […]
Open Management Solution For Open Line Systems
Source: Smartoptics Open line systems present numerous benefits to operators and service providers. Organizations are no longer forced to buy all components of a networking solution from the same supplier. Today’s open line systems allow service providers to pick and choose between different options, ensuring that they have the best component from the best vendor […]
Four Key Trends For Open Networks
Source: Smartoptics Regardless of whether you’re a service provider operating metro networks or a small carrier with a regional backbone network, a more open way of networking is increasingly high on the agenda. This flexible networking trend can also be called open optical networking or disaggregated networking. It is being driven by opportunities to increase […]
The World is Ready for 400G Roll-Out – Are You?
Source: Smartoptics In March 2021, Smartoptics announced that service provider POST-Luxembourg had chosen the Smartoptics open line system for upgrading its backbone network to 400G. As one of the first commercial installations in the world based on the new 400ZR standard, the implementation is a clear proof point that 400G is here for real. […]
What is a DWDM Open Line System and How Does it Help Your Business?
With budgets left strapped and stretched by the pandemic, key decision-makers face significant resistance to the allocation of company resources being placed anywhere that is not critical to performance. Ironically, an accompanying belief often follows that an investment into digital infrastructure cannot provide benefits that help businesses improve their performance across the entire enterprise. This […]
How Your Business Can Harness the Power of an Open Line System
A traditional issue facing companies that have sought to update their telecommunications network and IT infrastructure has been the sourcing of components from a single supplier. […]
How More Companies are Making Themselves ‘Future Proof’
Upgrades and changes to technology are a constant factor that all businesses must contend with, however, many businesses are apprehensive to invest in technology due to cost. For companies to compete in the modern marketplace, their technology must be able to match their ambition, their imagination and their business needs. […]
How Your Business Can Manage Data Overloads
The amount of data that we send to each other has exponentially increased over time. This has led to an overload of traffic on data centre networks. To keep up with the rapid increase in data output, businesses must adapt and upgrade to faster networks. Files like HD videos, 5G applications and large cloud storages […]
Dark Fibre – The Next-Generation of IT Infrastructure.
The rapid rate of technological innovation has meant that many organisations have seen an acceleration in business growth. This growth requires changes to operating practices, adoption of new cloud-based processing, and associated network changes. […]
2020 – Independent Data Solutions’ Year in Review
The end of the year is a time for reflection – to look back at the things we did well, celebrate our achievements and the challenges which we’ve overcome. Despite the difficulties endured, we found plenty of reasons to celebrate looking back. Here are our top 8 highlights of 2020: 2020 saw revenue increase by […]