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DWDM technology for
CzechBone network
SELFservis, a Czech Cable-TV and WDM functionality, significantly
alternative operator, has deployed the reduced operating costs and lower
Transmode TM-Series in it’s power consumption.
CzechBone network across the Czech
Republic. The network provides local “The expansion of the CzechBone
and national transit connectivity and a network is an important project for
range of data services to a wide range SELFservis” said Jan Dasovsky,
of international customers and to local SELFservis’ CEO and Owner. “As
Cable TV operators. Customers such network capacity grows we need a
as UPC, Telekom Austria and GTS use solution that can scale quickly and
the CzechBone network for high speed differentiate our network, while
services. The Transmode TM-Series keeping operational costs down.
solution provides SELFservis with a
Gigabit Ethernet over CWDM and “We evaluated a number of global
DWDM network that takes full WDM vendors and selected Transmode
advantage of Transmode’s iWDM due to the company’s focus on WDM
(Intelligent WDM) concept and Low technology. The Transmode TM-Series
Network
Power Design. This provides provides us at SELFservis with a solid
SELFservis with a scalable network platform for network growth while
capacity and
offering industry leading Ethernet over providing the best whole life cost”.
resiliency
Cloud Computing on-demand
RCN Metro Optical Networks, a
division of RCN Corporation and
premier provider of high-capacity
Joyent, a leading cloud computing Ruby-on-Rails application on record. transport services for carriers as
vendor, has successfully deployed the Joyent uses F5’s BIG-IP devices as the well as large and medium-sized
F5 Networks’ F5 BIG-IP® Local Traffic backbone to its cloud computing IaaS. businesses, has deployed Ciena’s CN
Manager solution in its Infrastructure The BIG-IP platform provides massive 4200® FlexSelect Advanced Services
as a Service (IaaS) server virtualisation traffic handling (2–10 Gbps), while F5’s Platform family to enable the
architecture. powerful yet easy-to-use iRules delivery of assured, high-capacity
transport services in managed
Joyent’s primary cloud computing ™ scripting language provides Joyent optical networks.
offering is a line of virtualised servers with flexible management and RCN Metro has also joined Ciena’s
called Joyent Accelerators. Its deployment of its cloud computing BizConnect global partner program
customers use collections of infrastructure. as a designated Managed Services
Accelerators to power large-scale Provider (MSP) partner. As
websites and web applications. “I’ve looked at the market and tried enterprises are faced with
virtually everything, but there is navigating the capacity and
One of its many thousands of nothing else like the F5 BIG-IP performance impact of trends such
customers is LinkedIn, which uses system,” said Jason Hoffman, co- as virtualization and cloud-based
Joyent Accelerators to host its wildly founder and CTO of Joyent. “BIG-IP services on their wide area
successful Bumper Sticker application LTM is the only application switch networking needs, they are relying
on Facebook. Within a few months of capable of scaling to handle the more on managed networks
launch, the application grew to over thousands of back-end systems Joyent provided by service-focused carriers
one billion page views a month, needs to thrive. Without it, we wouldn’t like RCN.
making Bumper Sticker the largest have a business, to be honest.”
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