Planning for Future Network Needs Now

Presented at ISE Expo in Dallas, Texas, on August 20, 2024

The way networks are being utilized is evolving, and the way we process and collect information is developing with the utilization of AI, Machine learning, and sensor technologies. The number of connected devices will expand exponentially requiring the physical layer to adapt.

Networks are built to last for multiple decades ensuring networks are capable of handling this explosion in new data which will be critical to the adoption and implementation of the technology. These things must be considered in the investments made today to ensure networks can scale to meet future demand.

This session will discuss AI, 25G, 50G and beyond, connected device proliferation into the markets, and how these trends will impact the physical layer. Plays to designing networks with spare capacity, WDM strategies, network flexibility for future demand points, mobile edge compute, latency, quality of service, bandwidth, networks built to last many decades and to target TCO savings.

Learnings include:

1. Considerations of network demands around trending topics like 25G and AI.
2. How to prepare now for future network demands.
3. How to prepare your network for latency, quality of service, and bandwidth—building networks to last many decades and target TCO savings.

Session duration: 45 minutes

About the Presenter

As Senior Director for Strategy and Marketing, Paul Hubbard specializes on identifying and developing market solutions for fibre based outside plant deployments. Specializing in network architectures and optimization. Paul has been actively involved in multiple large scale network deployments around the world to include Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN), New Zealand’s UFB rollout and several large-scale deployments across Europe. Relocating from Australia to the United States in 2020, Paul has over 24 years of industry experience and brings a vast wealth of knowledge and innovative approaches for deploying FTTH networks within challenging environments.