Mike Capuano's Articles
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SP360: Service ProviderMulti-vendor MPLS-TP Interoperability Demonstrated for Packet Transport Networks
Widely deployed from the core to the edge, IP/MPLS has achieved huge success as a mature, standards-based technology now deployed by virtually every service provider worldwide. As a result, the
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The Real (Networking) Stars of Los Angeles
Early this month the stars in Los Angeles weren’t walking the Red Carpet, nor Tweeting about #winning, nor trashing their dressing room. Instead they were on the blue carpet of
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There is No Split Standard in MPLS OAM
There has been a lot of buzz recently about a second OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) solution for MPLS-TP that will cause interoperability problems between MPLS-TP and MPLS. It is
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IPv6: The Time Has Come
“IPv6’s time has come. For a long time considered a satisfactory but too costly technical solution to implement, IPv6 is now an issue that cannot be ignored.” Thus begins the
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For IPv4 the Sunset Begins. For IPv6 the Day Is Just Getting Started
That was quick! I mentioned earlier in the week that, in any day, the IANA would hand out the last IPv4 address. Today it happened. And coinciding with the X-day,
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IANA IPv4 Address Depletion: Change is the Only Constant
I thought my children would never fully understand what a life changing experience the Internet has had on our society. They do not know life without it. However, with the
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When that Video Absolutely, Positively Has to Get Through
Let’s face it – dancing cats are cute and apocalyptic visions of the future without IPv6 can be entertaining, but a glitch or two…or a “video not available” won’t violate any
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Foundation for Next-Generation Transport: The Cisco Carrier Packet Transport System
SONET and SDH, while well established and highly reliable technologies, were optimized for an era of TDM voice communications – before cloud computing, VoIP, cell phones, mobile tablets, Video CDNs and
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Working Together to Attain MPLS-TP Interoperability
IP services are dominating overall network traffic growth and service providers are now truly architecting a transition from legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) networks to packet transport networks. It’s no
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Packet or Transport? Get Your Questions Ready for October 5th
The OSI stack has long served the telecom industry as a model for engineering since the early 80’s (which IMHO was the best decade for music, but I digress). Nowadays
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