Verizon offers peek at its network service road map

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: OPTICAL NETWORKING
10/03/05

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Today's focus: Verizon offers peek at its network service road
map

By Jim Duffy

Verizon is planning network upgrades that will support new
services such as optical VPNs and high-speed home networking as
well as reduce data replication among multiple services.

On its national optical network, Verizon is installing
reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers and plans to
migrate to wavelength switching to support automated operations
and provisioning, said Mark Wegleitner, Verizon senior vice
president and CTO. Wegleitner made his remarks last week during
a keynote presentation at the Next Generation Networks 2005
conference.

Verizon is looking at generalized MPLS-based control in the
optical layer to facilitate bandwidth on demand and optical
VPNs, Wegleitner said.

"There's no reason you couldn't have an optical VPN" as well as
an IP VPN, he said. He did not provide a time frame for an
optical VPN launch.

Optical VPNs allow customers to self provision wavelengths - or
circuits - into VPN groups even though they do not own the
infrastructure. Customers also can upgrade capacity quickly
from, for example, 52M to 2.5G or 10G bit/sec - the full
capacity of a wavelength.

On the home networking front, Verizon plans to issue a gigabit
passive optical network RFP by the year-end and to deploy the
technology in the second half of 2006, Wegleitner said. The
rollout will support gigabit-per-second upstream and downstream
speeds, effectively doubling and quadrupling the bandwidth
delivered by the broadband passive optical network technology in
Verizon's fiber-to-the-premises consumer and small-business
broadband buildouts, he said.

The new setup also will support full IPTV implementation, even
though Verizon doesn't see that happening for another two years.

"We don't think IPTV is ready for prime time yet," Wegleitner
said. "We are eager to embrace it when it's ready for
deployment."

Verizon is deploying an overlay wavelength carrying an 850-MHz
radio frequency signal to deliver broadcast TV into homes.

On a large scale, Verizon is looking to upgrade its network by
integrating separate service silos - individual voice, wireless,
data and video application server and database infrastructures -
into a consolidated structure that eliminates server
duplications and replicated PIN, message store, calendar and
profile data, Wegleitner said. It also will enable the Verizon
network to become access agnostic.

Wegleitner said Verizon has a "positive impression" of the IP
Multimedia Subsystem specification for multimedia-enabling the
public switched telephone network. But it still needs some
attention, he said.

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To contact: Jim Duffy

Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider
equipment coverage
<http://www.networkworld.com/topics/service-providers.html>. He
has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over
12 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at
Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at
Electronic News and MIS Week. He can be reached at
<mailto:jduffy@nww.com>.
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you'll glean valuable insights that can drive both revenue
growth and competitive advantage. Along the way, however,
companies are discovering that managing the explosive growth of
online data can prove a formidable challenge. Here's how to
assess your data management style, and maximize your
opportunities to turn online data into business opportunity.
Click here for more on taming the data explosion.
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