Optical networking delivers the distance, bandwidth scalability, resiliency, and manageability that broadband networks require. You're invited to a special session from Ribbon on Tuesday, December 15th where we will review optical networking technology and basics and explain how optical networks solve reachability, survivability, bandwidth growth, and maintenance challenges for broadband services. What problems do optical networks solve? What are the major piece parts and important vocabulary? What do I have to think about when deploying? Any cool stuff on the market I should be aware of?

Service Providers are virtualizing their core networks in an effort to offer premium quality services with reduced resources, costs, and faster time to market. As the industry moves towards 5G, opportunities to advance the virtualization of fixed voice core networks and moving forward on a path to an increasingly cloud-native future enables service providers to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Everything about the 5G era is disruptive – from technology to applications, from competition to ecosystems. In addition to entering the mobile services arena, MSOs are in a strong position to gain significant backhaul revenue from this disruptive market place; if they can provide differentiated IP and Optical connectivity for the 5G radio networks.