Monday
Aug012011
Plotting transceiver shipments versus traffic growth
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:12AM
Chart Watch: LightCounting
Summing transceiver shipments in the core of the network and plotting the data against traffic growth provides useful insights into the state of the network.
"We use transceiver shipment data [from vendors] to calculate how fast the network is growing and compare it to the traffic growth," says Vladimir Kozlov, CEO of market research firm, LightCounting.