Quality of Service (QoS) and Policy Management in Mobile Data Networks

whitePaper | January 10, 2023

A growing number of enterprises have begun to consider multiple hypervisor virtualization solutions. Some vendors claim that they offer hypervisor-agnostic or heterogeneous hypervisor management solutions, as Microsoft Corporation does today with its Microsoft System Center 2012 suite.

whitePaper | July 20, 2021

See what Heavy Reading analysts discovered when they conducted research on digital service provider best practices and key considerations for building secure, fast 5G and edge computing networks.

whitePaper | July 8, 2021

Enterprise and residential market dynamics, 5G, and the cloud are driving new applications—and creating new revenue opportunities for Communications Service Providers (CSPs). But these emerging use cases are also creating challenges: new traffic patterns, the move to virtualized and distributed applications, and the need for higher bandwidth and lower latency connectivity to end-users. IP/Optical convergence can play a key role in helping CSPs address these, but where does the path to architecture evolution begin? For every CSP, the journey is unique. With Ciena’s solutions, CSPs can start—and build—from their existing networks to evolve to a more streamlined, programmatic infrastructure that can serve as the foundation for innovation in the distributed services and content era.

whitePaper | May 10, 2022

The purpose of this document is to emphasize necessity of cross-standardization collaboration to realize E2E Network Slicing Architecture designed from an End-to-End (E2E) perspective, spanning over different technical domains (e.g., device, access network, core network, transport network and network management system) and multiple vendors and to provide guidance on actions in each Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) and open source projects.

whitePaper | March 22, 2022

Demonstrates efficient and robust industry 4.0 connectivity with intelligent CoMP using the O-RAN ALLIANCE framework for disaggregated network components and RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), and 5G sidelin. Creating an innovation platform for end-to-end research on new verticals starting with XR and expanding to private networks, Industrial IoT, drones, and mission critical applications.

whitePaper | February 23, 2023

Networks have never been more important to business operations than they are now, and the role they play in organizations of all types is continuing to become more critical and more visible to operations. However, there is a major and widening gap between the capabilities offered by legacy network management tools and the functionality that is actually needed to handle the complexity and growing burden of modern network management.