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By David Stokes
Coherent routing, Routed Optical Networking, Converged Optical Routing Architecture (CORA), are all names for the same concept: an advanced network architecture which integrates coherent optical transceivers directly into IP routers. This convergence of layers creates a simplified and highly efficient IP-over-DWDM (IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) network.
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By David Stokes
Mission-critical networks are changing fast. Utilities, transport operators, and critical infrastructure providers are under pressure to deliver more data, more automation, and more resilience—without ever compromising reliability. The challenge is simple: legacy SDH/SONET networks were built for a different era. They still deliver reliability. But they can’t support what comes next.
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By David Stokes
IPoDWDM is an architecture that integrates IP routing and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing into a single, converged platform. This integration is achieved by placing coherent optics directly into the ports of IP routers and switches, a fundamental shift from traditional network designs. Consequently, this approach eliminates the need for a separate, dedicated layer of optical transponders and their associated shelving.
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By David Stokes
IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (IPoDWDM) is a network architecture that integrates optical transmission capabilities directly into IP networking equipment such as routers and switches. This approach represents a significant evolution from traditional network designs, where IP and optical layers were managed as separate domains with distinct hardware and operational teams.
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By David Stokes
Power networks (DSOs, TSOs and generation) are under pressure from every direction. They need to improve reliability and sustainability, deliver real-time customer insight, and meet increasingly stringent regulations. In response, power generation has evolved from a simple centralized model, through to a decentralized model with generation from a mix of diverse sources such as centralized generation from carbon-based, nuclear and renewable generation plants, through DERs even located at people premises.
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By Paul Leininger
Last year, I wrote about how AI-driven search trends reshaped my digital marketing strategy in ways I hadn’t seen in two decades. At the time, the story was mostly observational: traffic patterns were changing, conversions were holding, and AI-generated search answers were clearly influencing buyer behavior. Fast-forward to the first quarter of 2026, and one thing is clear — this shift didn’t slow down; it accelerated.
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By Mitch Simcoe
Pandemic-era shortages are still fresh in many minds. As consumers, we remember empty shelves and long lines driven by panic buying and stockpiling. In telecom, the story played out differently but with the same root cause: factory shutdowns interrupted chip fabrication just as demand for networking and optical equipment surged.
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By Joni Roberts
Operators today are navigating unprecedented complexity—rising costs, accelerating customer expectations, and increasingly dynamic networks. In this recent video interview, my colleague Kevin Wade and I explore why AI‑driven automation has shifted from a “nice‑to‑have” technology to a core business requirement for telecom operators and beyond.
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By Kevin Wade
For decades, telecom network operations have depended on traditional OSS tools – complex, services-heavy platforms that take years to modernize and even longer to deliver measurable business impact. This year at MWC, the leading OSS vendors showcased a variety of new AI extensions for their portfolios and marketed them as the fastest path to autonomous network operations. They are not.
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By Jonathan Homa
While the race to expand networking infrastructure to support AI applications continues on land, the same expansion is occurring undersea. Subsea cables spanning Earth’s oceans must evolve to keep pace.
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By Ribbon
Cliff Johnson, Broadband Initiative Director at NRECA, and Ribbon’s Marketing & Product Director, Mitch Simcoe, cut through the noise to clarify where BEAD funding truly stands—what has been allocated, where significant dollars remain, and how emerging middle‑mile opportunities are reshaping the competitive landscape.
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By Ribbon
Ready to see how Network Slicing is revolutionizing secure connectivity for mission-critical networks?
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By Ribbon
Watch our 30‑minute preview webinar on 18th February at 4:00 pm CET where industry leaders reveal how service providers are transforming their networks to be autonomous, cloud‑ready, and future‑proof. Register today and meet us in Barcelona - Hall 2, Stand 2C42.
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By Ribbon
In this video, Curtis Sperle, Director of Voice & Collab Services at TELUS Communications, discusses the company's transition from traditional TDM-based networks to modern VoIP and cloud solutions. Key points include: Modernization Strategy: TELUS is migrating its copper-based services to an IP-based infrastructure to improve scalability and reliability. Strategic Partnership: Ribbon serves as a primary vendor, providing essential components like Session Border Controllers (SBCs) and PSX for call control.
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Ribbon Communications, which recently merged with ECI Telecom Group, delivers global communications software and network solutions to service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors.
We engage deeply with our customers, helping them modernize their networks for improved competitive positioning and business outcomes in today’s smart, always-on and data-hungry world. Our innovative, end-to-end solutions portfolio delivers unparalleled scale, performance, and agility, including core to edge IP solutions, UCaaS / CPaaS cloud offers, leading-edge software security and analytics tools, as well as packet and optical networking leveraging ECI’s Elastic Network technology.
The Ribbon Portfolio:
- Enterprise Products: We help businesses of all sizes modernize and secure their networks and transport infrastructure, including government, defense, utilities, transportation, education, healthcare, financial institutions and more.
- Enterprise Solutions: Ribbon offers enterprise solutions to connect, integrate, secure, and manage high-performance networks, enabling real-time communications and other mission-critical applications that are deployed in your network, in a private cloud or public cloud.
- Service Provider Products: Our products enhance Communications Service Providers' competitive posture in the fixed, mobile, and cable markets.
- Service Provider Solutions: Ribbon solutions help fixed and mobile operators, cable providers or MSOs, ISPs, and interconnect and wholesale carriers quickly capitalize on growing market segments and introduce differentiating products, applications and services.
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