The New Packet-Optical Core for a Software-driven World

Over the past decade, IT infrastructure has seen a dramatic shift from local resources to those located in a third-party facility. Whether we receive them at home or on our mobile phones, service providers offer hardware-free services that reside somewhere on the network, including storage of our personal files, streaming of personal and commercial video and, of course, photo albums and email. The acceleration of cloud adoption, as evidenced by the tremendous growth of Infrastructure, Platform & Software-as-a-Service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) offerings among technology providers, is having a profound impact on IT and network architectures.