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Redefining Metro Networks for Scale, Simplicity, and Sustainability from Heavy Reading

Broadband, enterprise, and cloud traffic drive the need for disaggregation and 100/200/400G everywhere. This white paper begins by identifying CSPs’ metro networking challenges and describes how the challenges translate directly to their key network requirements for the future then discusses the enabling technologies and innovations operators need to address those requirements. Lastly, it describes three major hardware architectures for metro networking and details the benefits and drawbacks of each approach.


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