[CAnet - news] The revenge of DWDM

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[Great column in Lightreading about the impact of DWDM on traditional
telecom business model. We have long argued that the low cost of DWDM and
tools like CANARIE's UCLP will have a similar impact on the telecom industry
as the PC did on the mainframe computer industry. Not only will it
dramatically reduce costs but it will enable a whole new world of
applications.  (See yesterday's NY Times article 
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/techspecial/05markoff.html

Customer owned networks or condominium wavelength networks will minimize the
need for a central managed network authority whether it is an incumbent
telco or large R&E networks.  New ROADM technology and VOIP peering will
allow institutions and even individual researchers to have their own
national IP networks dedicated to specific applications or communities of
interest. Once again university research DWDM facilities such as NLR and
CA*net 4 are leading these trends. Stay tuned for more announcements in this
areas. Some excerpts from a couple of lightreading articles -- BSA]

The Revenge of DWDM
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=81802&WT.svl=deptcol_1

Optical technologies have become so cheap that enterprises are seeing big
appeal, and they are increasingly building their own networks. In addition
to being drawn to the affordability of the technology, the enterprises are
being pushed toward new capacity with the expansion of VOIP and other IP
applications in their own networks. 

Make no mistake about it: Telecom technologies are rapidly being
commoditized, standardized, and packaged up neatly for enterprises. Pretty
soon, every Fortune 500 company is going to be running its own VOIP and DWDM
network - on a global scale
	

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=81840
Stealth CEO Shrihari Pandit says his company's "VOIP Peering Fabric" (VPF)
creates a "private VOIP Internet" where the voice traffic of more than 100
operators can now be exchanged purely in the IP domain. This novel idea
completely cuts out the RBOCs and ILECs, which make a business of collecting
PSTN termination fees from CLECs.

"If this were to continue down the path to other large CLECs, and other
regional CLECs come into the system, what it means is all the competitors of
the RBOCs and ILECs will now be able to send calls among one another for
free," Pandit says.


		
	
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