Optical Transport:
Bandwidth upgrade and revenue stream

Optical transport is expensive but boosts bandwidth— and generates revenues.

As service providers, enterprises, and municipal utilities scramble to accommodate ever-rising demands for bandwidth, many are turning to optical transport for their backbone deployments. Based on wave-division multiplexing (WDM) technology, these high-speed links greatly increase the available bandwidth—but also demand substantial capital outlays. Getting the most from these investments requires deep technical knowledge and a thorough understanding of the economics of optical systems.

The sheer cost of an optical link—typically $30 per meter or more—and the lengthy permit process discourage many organizations from moving to fiber. However, when managed properly, a fiber deployment can not only meet current needs but provide extra capacity that can support organizational growth or be marketed to other organizations. By avoiding monthly payments to service providers and generating revenues via resale, investments in optical transport technology can partially or completely pay for themselves.

Whether you already have an under used fiber system or are planning to deploy a new one, TorreyPoint has the knowledge and experience to help you take full advantage of optical technology.

TorreyPoint’s Optical Transport solution leverages our extensive hands-on knowledge of fiber technology to optimize the performance and revenue-generating potential of existing optical transport deployments. We can also specify, design, build and maintain a new optical installation that meets today’s needs and scales for tomorrow’s growth without costly forklift upgrades.

Let TorreyPoint optimize your existing system or build a new one customized to your requirements.

It takes experience to maximize a fiber deployment—experience that TorreyPoint has gained over a wide range of use cases. TorreyPoint has built strong relationships with specialty optical manufacturers such as Adva Optical Networking, Ciena, Infinera Corporation, MRV Communications, and Velo Networks as well as Fortune 500 suppliers such as Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Systems—relationships that benefit our customers, whether the task is deploying a new system or optimizing an existing one. Working with these and other vendors, TorreyPoint’s engineering consultants help customers navigate the product options, understand the technology, and deploy the best solution for their needs—to the most aggressive schedule.

Here are two deployment examples where TorreyPoint can add value:

• A financial enterprise has leased multiple fiber links or metro Ethernet services to interconnect a number of data centers located in a metro region. The company wants to minimize its monthly outlay to the service provider without compromising performance or reliability.
• A municipal utility has invested in a comprehensive fiber network to meet a range of needs, from public works and libraries to police and fire departments. Faced with looming budget deficits, the utility must generate much-needed revenues by reselling unused capacity to local Internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprises.
  

In these and other scenarios, TorreyPoint can help organizations achieve substantial benefits:

• Increased bandwidth to alleviate bottlenecks and service slowdowns
• Lower operating costs, for example, by having several enterprises share a single fiber link
• Generate revenue by reselling network transport services to other organizations
• Growth without disruptions by running current and next-generation networks in parallel on the same fiber backbone
• Scale to accommodate growth, making the most of the existing investment

Choosing an optical transport vendor is a job for experts.

Many IT departments have extensive experience choosing their vendors, and wonder why optical transport is any different. The answer is the complexity of the technology. Just a quick survey of the user’s manual for an optical router or switch convinces most IT professionals that working with optical technology requires a specialized set of skills that even the most seasoned networking team may lack.

Relying on the vendor to recommend the best system configuration has its own pitfalls. Evaluating a detailed proposal for a complex optical transport system is challenging for most IT managers. Signing one without a thorough technical and financial review can spell disaster down the road: What seems like a good choice at purchase time can become a costly mistake just a few years later, when a relative modest level of growth leads to an expensive forklift upgrade.

TorreyPoint’s Optical Transport solution avoids these and other problems. We leverage our experience with some of the most challenging networks in the world to provide a reliable, scalable, high-performance optical transport system that is right today—and for years to come.