Security Operations Center (SOC) Roles and Responsibilities A security operations center, or SOC, is an organizational or business unit operating at the center of security operations to manage and improve an organization’s overall security posture. Its primary function is to detect, analyze and respond to cybersecurity events, including threats and incidents, employing people, processes and…
IP Transit – Everything Old is New Again! New technologies are always hot topics for media and analysts alike. As we, and the industry, enjoy our exciting roller-coaster ride up and down on Gartner’s parabolic hype-cycle curve for various new technologies, it is important not to lose sight of our underlying foundations. One of these…
Pluggable Amplifiers for DCI Line-Systems On a related topic and using the same rationale, we are working with industry partners on standardizing a simple and DCI pluggable point-to-point line-system, with the EDFAs integrated into QSFP. This would be optimized for around 100 km and 8-16 channels of 400G-ZR wavelengths, for which most existing solutions are…
DWDM Pluggable vs Traditional Transponder/ Muxponder IP over DWDM has been around for more than a decade. As a concept, it revolves around placing coherent pluggable optics directly into routers. The value propositions of collapsing an entire layer includes the elimination of back-to-back grey optics, lower power consumption and unification of monitoring, control planes and…