Tuesday
Oct252016
Telefónica tackles video growth with IP-MPLS network
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7:50AM
- Telefónica’s video growth in one year has matched nine years of IP traffic growth
- Optical mesh network in Barcelona will use CDC-ROADMs and 200-gigabit coherent line cards
Telefónica has started testing an optical mesh network in Barcelona, adding to its existing optical mesh deployment across Madrid. Both mesh networks are based on 200-gigabit optical channels and high-degree reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) that are part of the optical infrastructure that underpins the operator’s nationwide IP-MPLS network that is now under construction.
The operator decided to become a video telco company in late 2014 to support video-on-demand and over-the-top streaming video services.
Telefónica realised its existing IP and aggregation networks would not be able to accommodate the video traffic growth and started developing its IP-MPLS network.