Multi-Service Provisioning Platforms (MSPPs) Test
Challenges
Service providers have invested very heavily to increase
capacity in their core network in response to industry
predictions that bandwidth demand would soon exceed
supply in the network core. In reality, traffic growth
estimates were hugely inflated, resulting in excess
bandwidth and equipment capacity in the network core.
The "if you build it - they will come" philosophy,
and assumption that a high-capacity network is all you
need to attract business has proved wrong, resulting
in fierce competition amongst service providers, and
significant industry consolidation. Service providers
are now searching for ways to
- reduce operating expenses
- capitalize on their considerable investment by offering
new revenue-generating, network-differentiating services
and applications over their core infrastructure
This has fuelled investment in, and development of,
a new breed of metro/edge devices that promises to satisfy
both service provider objectives.
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