Platform Consolidation Increases Agility and Lowers Cost for Service Providers and TEMs

One of the greatest technological challenges of our time is building out the global wireless and wireline infrastructure to handle rapidly growing IP traffic – which increased eightfold over the past five years and is forecasted to increase fourfold over the next five years.1 This exponential boom in IP traffic is due, in part, to the escalating demand for rich content by consumers using increasingly powerful mobile devices. Service providers must keep up with demand while delivering high-quality, value-added services at a competitive price. Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) face similar challenges that require them to develop faster, more energy-efficient equipment capable of supporting higher traffic throughput at the network core, access and edge.