circuit emulation

Join us on Sept. 13, 2018 for our Network Modernization: A TDM to IP Solution webinar and download the white paper. Cisco, Heavy Reading and Verizon have teamed up to show you how CEM can be used for SONET/SDH migration today.

Solutions such as MPLS and circuit emulation are helping carriers like Verizon push the technology envelope and future proof networks.

Read what technology innovations enable service providers to migrate at their own pace from TDM and SONET/SDH to packet services and replace aging DCS and ADM hardware while still maintaining legacy TDM services.

Some of our recent blog posts, A Requirements Checklist for the Next Generation Transport Network and The Next-Generation Transport Network: Solution Options discussed the business requirements you should consider before selecting a modernization solution and the technology options currently available to modernize aging transport networks. In the post, we’ll delve into the Cisco solution and […]

There are a number of options for modernizing your transport network, including native TDM switching over the optical transport network (OTN), a complete overlay network with routers and DWDM, and finally migrating to packet optical using circuit emulation (CEM). Each option has value, but the value depends on your end goal. In a previous post, […]

By: Alison Izard, Marketing Manager, Cisco In our recently published E-Book, A Roadmap for Transport Network Modernization, we use a step-by-step checklist to evaluate what should be considered before embarking on a network modernization project. Our checklist seeks to address a core set of modernization requirements all service providers share. If you haven’t already developed […]