Global carrier, Reliance Globalcom is upgrading its US metro network with Juniper’s high-performance MX-series Ethernet Services Routers and M120 Multiservice Edge Routers to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet and beyond in major metropolitan areas. It will extend MPLS and VPLS to the network edge, improving network performance and scalability. “Reliance Globalcom was one of the first carriers to offer a global VPLS service and strong service level guarantees, which helped put them at the forefront of the managed Ethernet services market,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst at Infonetics Research. “By extending the Juniper platform into its metro network, Reliance will be able to support growing critical enterprise applications.”
Imtech partner Arbor Networks has published the largest study to date on IPv6. It found that the original optimistic IPv6 deployment targets have not been met and that the eventual exhaustion of IPv4 allocations is still very real. “Based on our analysis, at the current rate of adoption, we are a decade or more away from pervasive adoption of dual stack support for IPv6,” said Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist. Government mandates are helping to spur IPv6 adoption, but tunnelled IPv6 traffic still only represents 0.0026% of overall IPv4 traffic.
Broadband value-added services generated revenues of $25.7 billion worldwide in 2007, up an impressive 62% over 2006, according to the latest figures from analyst Point Topic. “Value-added services are growing strongly and are increasingly significant in overall revenue terms,” says John Bosnell, Senior Analyst at Point Topic. Value-added services including voice-over-IP (VoIP), security and online gaming, now make up over 30% of total broadband revenues. VoIP was particularly successful in 2007, with revenues nearly doubling and take-up in major markets, particularly in North America and Western Europe, growing quickly.