Oi [Brazil], Orange[Spain], Zain[East Africa], ICON+ [Indonesia] Use NSN's Managed Transport Services

     

Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled its Managed Transport Services a service for management of transport networks on behalf of operators - "
Transport is traditionally the costliest part of the overall transmission network to run. Operators need to keep this operational expenditure at a minimum while maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) and coping with increased data traffic, driven by fixed and mobile broadband. Scaling and managing transport networks efficiently is a challenge due to their multi-vendor environment, and a mix of legacy and new technologies. The end-to-end approach to Managed Transport Services from Nokia Siemens Networks allows operators to maximize network capacity and optimize the operational expenditure of transport."

See "Meeting growing bandwidth demand now simpler for operators" - here.

“The transport network contributes a significant share of the overall transmission-related operating cost, with some analysts estimating its share at up to 70% [Source: Analysis Mason, 2009]. The challenges in scaling and managing are compounded by multi-vendor, multi-generation environments,” said Ashwini Bakshi, head of global managed services at Nokia Siemens Networks. “With our Managed Transport Services, we provide a holistic approach that combines advanced transport products from our own R&D and our partner ecosystem with our world-class operations support systems and end-to-end services.”

"The delivery model balances and optimizes the mix of local and global delivery of network management and care services. The model is underpinned by standardized operations model and innovative tools that support third-party solutions. Nokia Siemens Networks has already demonstrated its managed transport services capability as part of its ongoing managed services contracts with network operators including Oi in Brazil, Orange in Spain, Zain in East Africa, and ICON+ in Indonesia."

[Arbor Networks]: Google Generates 6.4% of Global Internet Traffic (+caching)

   

A recent post to Arbor Networks (recently acquired by Tektronix Communications - here) blog by Craig Labovitz, provides statistics collected by Arbor's ATLAS project, showing that Google "now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic around the world. This number grows even larger (to as much as 8-12%) if I include estimates of traffic offloaded by the increasingly common Google Global Cache (GGC) [see slide below] deployments and error in our data due to the extremely high degree of Google edge peering with consumer networks"

See "Google Sets New Internet Traffic Record" - here.

"A quick analysis of the data also shows Google now has direct peering (i.e. not transit) with more than 70% of all providers around the world (an increase of 5-10% from last year). In fact, the only remaining major group of ISPs without direct Google peering are several of the tier1s and national PTTs — many of whom will not settlement-free peer with Google due to regulatory prohibitions or commercial strategy."