The New Middle Mile Report

Khalid Raza, CEO of Graphiant, explains how their innovative solution can help CSPs unlock the value of their connectivity assets. By partnering with Graphiant, CSPs can help the enterprise customers: - Tackle the disaggregation of data and adapt to a mesh topology environment - Connect anyone to anyone, anywhere to anywhere without complex overlays and with desired SLAs

Divesh Gupta, VP of New Technology & Sales Operations at PCCW Global, explains how APIs can help automate the extension of connectivity services from the middle mile to the last mile. Here are the top talking points from the video: * Automated networks are mostly limited to data center-to-data center automation, but extending connectivity services to enterprise buildings requires relying on downstream partners. * To automate the extension of connectivity services, APIs are needed to order and provision services on the fly. * MEF has released APIs under the MEF Sonata Automation, which allows service providers to automate the address provisioning product order qualification code and orders while using standard-based APIs. PCCW Global is making use of this automation capability and incorporating it into their Console Connect platform to extend their automation capability down to the downstream vendors.

Jason Taylor, VP of Large Enterprise Sales at Zayo discusses the role hyperscaler trends and multi-cloud use drives fiber adoption and upgrades in the middle mile by enterprises and government agencies. He also touches on the importance of APIs and agile service management.

In this video, Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist from Arelion, explains why the US is lacking middle mile fibers. He highlights three key talking points: * Europe has a lot of fibers built 20 years ago that are still in good shape, making it easier to equip the middle mile with more equipment. * In contrast, the US has a significant amount of missing fibers in the middle mile due to a lack of fiber deployments over the years. * While there is fantastic growth in last mile fibers being built to the home in the US, there is a need for more middle mile fibers to be built. If you're interested in learning more about the challenges of building middle mile fibers in the US, this video is a must-watch.

Are you wondering if today's infrastructure is enough to support the next internet? In this video, Vito Mabruco, Global CMO from NTT, explains why the answer is no and what we need for the next internet. Here are the top three talking points from the video: * Today's infrastructure is not enough to support the next internet, which will require more capacity for 3D animations, virtual worlds, AI, and holograms. * NTT is addressing the need for the next infrastructure by changing the paradigm from electronics to photonics, which they have been using for long-distance transmission and telecommunications. * By replacing electronics with photonics, NTT can reduce power consumption and latency, which will be crucial for delivering the infrastructure of the future. Watch the video to learn more about NTT's vision for building the next infrastructure based on photonics.

Franck Morales, VP Evolution Platform from Orange, explains how they are delivering a secure digital infrastructure to accompany their customers in their digital-first business. Orange is transforming its backbone into a full internet backbone to deliver cloud-based services in 220 geographies. The backbone is fully co-located with major cloud providers like Google, Azure, and AWS. Orange is also clarifying the use case of SaaS and ensuring an end-to-end answer to customers by doing a Federation of resources using API and orchestrations. This simplifies the design and management of solutions and ensures a digital experience. Orange is hosting SaaS solution vendors that will be delivered from their infrastructure within Evolution platform, ensuring an amazing and outstanding digital experience while continuing to benefit from the innovation of technology vendors.

How will BT upgrade their core network to support 400 gigabits and beyond? In this video, Russell Davey, Distinguished Engineer and Principal Network Architect from BT, explains the different options they are considering. Here are the top three talking points from the video: * With the advancement of coherent WM transceivers, it's now possible to put them in a plug that can be directly connected to a router, instead of using a separate transponder card. * BT is considering two options for upgrading their core network: continuing to use rodems and transponders, or putting the WDM optics into the router and going hop by hop through all the routers down the length of the country. * The best option for a particular route will depend on bandwidth and distance, and BT plans to deploy all the options over the next year or so before picking the best one. Overall, the video provides valuable insights into how BT plans to upgrade their core network to support faster speeds and stay ahead of the curve.

Sanjay Kumar, VP Product Management and Marketing from Arrcus, explains why communication service providers need a unified network like Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE) that stitches together workloads from the edge into the multi-cloud. In addition, Sanjay touches on: * The need for control, visibility, and guaranteed SLAs for applications * Arrcus FlexMCN, a solution for multi-cloud, and how it provides a secure fabric from cloud to edge

How is Colt enabling digital transformation? Mirko Voltolini, VP Innovation from Colt, explains why: * Colt is building products for the future of digital infrastructure to connect businesses in real-time. * Colt is evolving from traditional connectivity to an on-demand, generation-based model that enables change and flexibility. * Colt is working on a number of use cases to enable digital transformation in various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, and more. Watch this video to learn more about how Colt is enabling digital transformation through its new middle mile approach.

Avneesh Prakash, VP of Mobility from Tata Communications, explains how their platform, MOVE, can help enterprises connect all their assets, whether they are IoT or consumer assets, anytime, anywhere, and at scale. In this hyper-connectivity world, the whole environment is being driven by increasingly complex devices, and the key challenge that enterprises face is that their devices have to be always connected. Here are the top three talking points from the video: * MOVE is a highly intelligent context-aware connectivity management platform that enables enterprises to connect all their assets, whether they are IoT or consumer assets, to get connected anytime, anywhere, and at scale. * MOVE delivers an always-on, always-connected experience and an always-updated connected car, which saves millions of dollars for the manufacturer and gives superlative driver experience. * MOVE's platform is pre-connected with 700 mm routes around the world, which gives MVNOs an always-on, always-connected global connectivity experience. They also have access and insights into some very unique data elements, such as quality of service, which they use to drive end-user or an enterprise business use cases.

Divesh Gupta, VP of New Technology & Sales Operations at PCCW Global, explains how APIs can help automate the extension of connectivity services from the middle mile to the last mile. Here are the top talking points from the video: * Automated networks are mostly limited to data center-to-data center automation, but extending connectivity services to enterprise buildings requires relying on downstream partners. * To automate the extension of connectivity services, APIs are needed to order and provision services on the fly. * MEF has released APIs under the MEF Sonata Automation, which allows service providers to automate the address provisioning product order qualification code and orders while using standard-based APIs. PCCW Global is making use of this automation capability and incorporating it into their Console Connect platform to extend their automation capability down to the downstream vendors.

Jeremiah Ginn, Cybersecurity Evangelist from AT&T, explains how they deliver end-to-end circuit quality through their defined core, leveraging LSO APIs to integrate with partners, vendors, and competitors, and their solution that allows for automatic provisioning of connections to different cloud service providers. AT&T's Business Center also gives customers the ability to create a virtual cross connect in any participating cloud service provider through orchestration in the API.

In this video, Amar Kapadia, CEO of Aarna Networks, explains why the middle mile is going through a renaissance and how it is changing the game for multi-cloud networking. He discusses three factors driving the anticipated growth of the middle mile: * Multi-cloud networking: Enterprises are choosing to use multiple public clouds to run their business, and they need dedicated connectivity to each of these clouds. This connectivity has to be provided on demand in a self-service manner. * Cloud repatriation: To use multiple clouds effectively, the state information or the data has to be moved to a neutral site that can be accessed by any public cloud or even private clouds in an easy-to-use manner without incurring egress costs. The middle mile is an excellent location to host the storage or the databases for the state information. * Orchestration: It requires orchestration of tens of heterogeneous infrastructure vendors across tens of thousands of sites, following that it requires orchestration of hundreds of Network Services and applications across this infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more about how the middle mile is changing the game for multi-cloud networking.

Ali Shaikh, Chief Product Officer from Graphiant, explains how their network architecture delivers a simple network service. Key takeaways: * Graphiant's stateless core philosophy ensures that the transit is pure transport, fast and flexible, instead of today’s inflexible and rigid topologies * Graphiant's architecture puts metadata into the data plane itself, allowing customer traffic to go wherever it needs to without having to worry about how to manage a complicated customer configuration landscape * Graphiant's service is built in such a way that it can become an open standard and shared with the industry

In this video, Eli Karpilovski, CEO, InsidePacket, explain discusses how his company's network-as-a-service solution can help service providers automate their networks, reduce costs, and deliver new services to enterprise customers. Here are the top three talking points: - Inside Packet's solution enables service providers to take their existing infrastructure and automate it, providing a reduction of cost by running on commodity off-the-shelf hardware. - Service providers can add services on top of their network infrastructure, connecting enterprise customers to all their assets wherever they are and providing application observability tools that are missing from their current offering. - InsidePacket is focused on the "middle mile," where service providers have the biggest potential to become the center of the offering for enterprise customers, connecting them to clouds and providing new revenue streams.