Cracking the Future Challenges of Data Centers

{"news_id":8250,"is_preview":0,"news_info":{"id":8250,"company_id":194,"user_id":406,"author":"Queenton","website_id":836,"pub_date":"2023-10-26 17:26:00","urla":"cracking-the-future-challenges-of-data-centers","description":"","image_url":"https:\/\/oss.matchpages.cn\/matchpages\/common\/2023\/1026\/9938\/653a1dd6d0fb2\/campus-network.jpg","image_alt":"campus network.jpg","title":"Cracking the Future Challenges of Data Centers","content":"<p>Enterprise cloud technology and consumer video applications have profoundly influenced the communications market, leading to a surge in the number of data centers and their continuous expansion into new geographical locations. A typical data center houses thousands of servers, often requiring terabit-level optical transmission capacities for interconnecting data centers. Hence, Data Center Interconnect (DCI) is the fastest-growing application in the optical communications network market. According to a report by the globally renowned market research firm Ovum, DCI market revenues grew 16.2% in 2014, reaching $2.5 billion. Ciena, Alcatel-Lucent, and Infinera topped the list. In 2014, almost 50% of global DCI market investment came from operators, with Alcatel-Lucent leading this niche market with a 20.2% share.<\/p>\n<p>Ovum predicts that the global DCI market will have a compound annual growth rate of 10.5% over the next five years, reaching $4.2 billion by 2019. Rapidly expanding data centers will face challenges at the carrier level, some of which have already arisen, while others will emerge as data centers evolve.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Continuous Surge in DCI Traffic<\/strong> The bandwidth for DCI is mainly used for adjusting virtual computing resources between data centers, data caching, and disaster recovery. Predictions indicate that this traffic will increase by 4.4 times by 2018. The market needs higher capacity, lower-cost, and easily scalable DCI technologies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Changes in DCI Network Topology<\/strong> Driven by user experience, data centers will move closer to the network edge in their topology. Deployment will shift from centralized to distributed, and DCI will evolve from point-to-point connections to meshed networks. With the emergence of 400G ports on routers, the granularity of DCI services is increasing. Traditional OTN-based network configurations will face significant challenges for efficient service scheduling and cost-effective operations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Increased Focus on DCI Security<\/strong> Recent incidents at internet company data centers have highlighted the importance of business stability to both consumers and businesses. Fortunately, these mishaps have not resulted in data breaches. However, mature detection technologies currently exist for extracting information at the optical level, challenging the previously assumed safety of optical communications. Ensuring data security while transmitting vast amounts of data with low latency is a pressing challenge for DCI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>DCI Demands Full Network Resource Automation<\/strong> While Data Center SDN addresses the automation of thousands of virtual machines, Transmission SDN caters to the dynamic transmission requirements for carrier network resource auto-configuration. But so far, these two SDN solutions provided by the industry have been mostly independent. Failing to integrate these will hinder the efficiency gains that SDN offers in the context of DCI networking.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Addressing these challenges, Alcatel-Lucent's solutions can mitigate each:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Their <strong>programmable ultra-high-speed optical transmission technology<\/strong> meets the demands of large capacity, low cost, and smooth scalability in DCI. Alcatel-Lucent's board card offers a 500G line-side port, making it the most integrated and fastest in the market. This provides 56T DCI capacity per rack, setting a new industry benchmark. The card allows smooth upgrades from 100G to 500G, ensuring long-term network stability while reducing transmission costs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>CDC-F ROADM technology<\/strong> establishes a robust foundation for efficient DCI networking. The recently released Wavelength Routing Engine (WRE) based on this technology provides flexible optical layer networking capabilities, breaking past limitations and ensuring a smooth evolution in DCI optical networks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Low-latency optical layer encryption<\/strong> guarantees secure high-bandwidth carriage. Alcatel-Lucent pioneers this technology, ensuring strong security, ultra-low latency, and adaptability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Their <strong>unified SDN solution<\/strong> achieves full automation for DCI services. Their recently launched NSP (Network Service Platform) is the first integrated solution, combining Data Center SDN and Transmission SDN.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With Bell Labs' extensive research prowess and technological accumulation, Alcatel-Lucent remains a leader and innovator in the optical transmission industry. 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<p>Enterprise cloud technology and consumer video applications have profoundly influenced the communications market, leading to a surge in the number of data centers and their continuous expansion into new geographical locations. A typical data center houses thousands of servers, often requiring terabit-level optical transmission capacities for interconnecting data centers. Hence, Data Center Interconnect (DCI) is the fastest-growing application in the optical communications network market. According to a report by the globally renowned market research firm Ovum, DCI market revenues grew 16.2% in 2014, reaching $2.5 billion. Ciena, Alcatel-Lucent, and Infinera topped the list. In 2014, almost 50% of global DCI market investment came from operators, with Alcatel-Lucent leading this niche market with a 20.2% share.</p>
<p>Ovum predicts that the global DCI market will have a compound annual growth rate of 10.5% over the next five years, reaching $4.2 billion by 2019. Rapidly expanding data centers will face challenges at the carrier level, some of which have already arisen, while others will emerge as data centers evolve.</p>
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<p><strong>Continuous Surge in DCI Traffic</strong> The bandwidth for DCI is mainly used for adjusting virtual computing resources between data centers, data caching, and disaster recovery. Predictions indicate that this traffic will increase by 4.4 times by 2018. The market needs higher capacity, lower-cost, and easily scalable DCI technologies.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Changes in DCI Network Topology</strong> Driven by user experience, data centers will move closer to the network edge in their topology. Deployment will shift from centralized to distributed, and DCI will evolve from point-to-point connections to meshed networks. With the emergence of 400G ports on routers, the granularity of DCI services is increasing. Traditional OTN-based network configurations will face significant challenges for efficient service scheduling and cost-effective operations.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Increased Focus on DCI Security</strong> Recent incidents at internet company data centers have highlighted the importance of business stability to both consumers and businesses. Fortunately, these mishaps have not resulted in data breaches. However, mature detection technologies currently exist for extracting information at the optical level, challenging the previously assumed safety of optical communications. Ensuring data security while transmitting vast amounts of data with low latency is a pressing challenge for DCI.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>DCI Demands Full Network Resource Automation</strong> While Data Center SDN addresses the automation of thousands of virtual machines, Transmission SDN caters to the dynamic transmission requirements for carrier network resource auto-configuration. But so far, these two SDN solutions provided by the industry have been mostly independent. Failing to integrate these will hinder the efficiency gains that SDN offers in the context of DCI networking.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Addressing these challenges, Alcatel-Lucent's solutions can mitigate each:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Their <strong>programmable ultra-high-speed optical transmission technology</strong> meets the demands of large capacity, low cost, and smooth scalability in DCI. Alcatel-Lucent's board card offers a 500G line-side port, making it the most integrated and fastest in the market. This provides 56T DCI capacity per rack, setting a new industry benchmark. The card allows smooth upgrades from 100G to 500G, ensuring long-term network stability while reducing transmission costs.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>CDC-F ROADM technology</strong> establishes a robust foundation for efficient DCI networking. The recently released Wavelength Routing Engine (WRE) based on this technology provides flexible optical layer networking capabilities, breaking past limitations and ensuring a smooth evolution in DCI optical networks.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Low-latency optical layer encryption</strong> guarantees secure high-bandwidth carriage. Alcatel-Lucent pioneers this technology, ensuring strong security, ultra-low latency, and adaptability.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Their <strong>unified SDN solution</strong> achieves full automation for DCI services. Their recently launched NSP (Network Service Platform) is the first integrated solution, combining Data Center SDN and Transmission SDN.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>With Bell Labs' extensive research prowess and technological accumulation, Alcatel-Lucent remains a leader and innovator in the optical transmission industry. Facing the fast-paced development and new demands of the DCI market, Alcatel-Lucent's advanced technologies ensure that customers are well-prepared to tackle future challenges.</p>