Redback’s DeNuccio: Kill the legacy networks quicker
Industry News
Blogs
Briefing Room
advertisement
LAS VEGAS -- Landline telecom companies need to move more quickly to replace their legacy networks, even if the business case isn't solid, Redback Networks Vice Chairman Kevin DeNuccio said today.
Addressing hundreds of such service providers at the MetaSwitch Forum 2009, DeNuccio said legacy networks are sucking up too much capital and preventing landline providers from getting the IP networks they need in place to be ready to support the coming tsunami of bandwidth demand from Internet video and wireless Internet access.
"You need to get to an all-IP soft network to get your cost structure in order," DeNuccio said. "Pouring dollars into legacy networks is wasting capital. There is a sense of urgency here that people don't see, to leave the legacy infrastructure behind. You need to create a multi-phased plan, showing how do I get to where I want to be, and aggressively rotate your capital. Even if the business cases today don't always make the cut. It's important to look a little bit past the dollars and cents and get the legacy networks shut down now."
The impact of the mobile Internet on the global telecom industry will be 10 times what the original Internet was, DeNuccio said, because the mobile Internet will be able to reach tens of millions of users in places like India and China that don't have PCs. "The mobile Internet will flatten the world much more than the Internet did and will be much more impactful," DeNuccio said.
Ultimately, wireless demand drives bandwidth requirements for landline networks that backhaul traffic. In addition, DeNuccio said, the movement of entertainment video onto the Internet will drive the need for an all-IP infrastructure and more fiber-rich distribution networks.
"The more fiber you can put in the network, the better," DeNuccio said. "The video Internet demands more bandwidth."
That bandwidth has to be two-way, DeNuccio said, as Verizon has seen with its FiOS deployment. "They are seeing massive heavy bandwidth demands as people are blasting video entertainment channels into the network," he said. "You have to make sure you build the Internet infrastructure that can handle more than a download-only environment."
Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.
advertisement
Learning Library
Webcasts
Using Real-Time Offers, Alerts and Interactions To Improve the Mobile Broadband Experience
In this Webinar you will learn how to create a real-time relationship with your customers, how to proactively improve the customer experience, and how to successfully target and cross-sell services to boost incremental revenue.
- Megabytes to Megabucks, Bandwidth to Business Models: How 4G Is Changing Everything
- How to Unplug Your Redundant Telco Apps To Save Money and Improve Efficiency
- When IaaS Isn't Enough: Service Provider Business Models to Drive Growth and Build Margin
- How to Transform Your Aging Telco Voice Network to Drive New Profits and Revenue
- Creative Licensing Approaches for Telcos & Their Network Equipment Vendors
- Smart Home Opportunity: Balancing Customer Data & Privacy
White Papers
The Role of Diameter in All-IP, Service-Oriented Networks
This paper discusses the rise of Diameter and benefits of Diameter Protocol.
- Conducting The Orchestration – Order Management at the Speed of Business
- Toward a Converged Network Edge
- Beyond Spam – Email Security in the Age of Blended Threats
- 6 Important Steps to Evaluating a Web Filtering Solution
- The Expertise to Protect You from Botnet and DDoS Attacks
- Seeing is Believing – Bridging the Order Visibility Gap
Featured Content
A time and money saving approach to fiber deployment
Service providers are under tremendous pressure to turn up new services faster then before and, at the same time,
to do it at less expense - and intra-office fiber is one of the biggest challenges in terms of both cost and service
turn-up.
of interest
The Latest
News
From the Blog
Briefingroom
Join the Discussion
Resources
Get more out of Connected Planet by visiting our related resources below:
Connected Planet highlights the next generation of service providers, as well as how their customers use services in new ways.
Subscribe Now







