Advanced Networks
Broadband
Telcordia is, once again, at the forefront of efforts to ready access and backbone networks for a new era -- one dominated by ultra-high-bandwidth, dynamic, packet-based networks.
On the access side, we are working to assure uninterrupted service quality as service providers roll out more varieties of services and service-bundles over the same pipeline.
In the backbone, we are reinventing capacity management -- finding innovative ways to decide how much capacity to put in a network, where to put it, how to manage it, and how to keep track of it. The goal is to minimize capital costs, while enabling networks to provide a wide variety of on-demand customer services, as well as fixed services, while meeting resilience and fault-tolerance requirements.
Innovation in Action
- Our research is uncovering a viable, vendor-independent approach to capacity management that will allow an intelligent optical network to "manage itself," while simultaneously allowing the carrier to estimate free capacity accurately.
- To advance broadband access service quality, we are finding ways to manage DSL and FTTP impairments and to improve DSL line tests. In fact, one of Telcordia's employees has been named an IEEE Fellow for his work on ensuring DSL spectral compatibility.
- Our service management solution, Telcordia® Service Director, is being used by several large IPTV providers, and has managed the world's largest IPTV deployment.
Innovation on the Horizon
- Demand for more secure fiber optic communications now permeates our economy -- it is a goal of government entities and virtually all large enterprises. Telcordia is playing a leading role in moving the highly speculative field of Quantum Communications toward commercial applications to enable "absolute security" over fiber strands. The result will be the ability to prevent any unauthorized person from intercepting data sent over fiber, and to immediately detect any attempt at intrusion.