The Way Better Blog
In this blog I will be writing about some of the topics, big and small, facing network engineers and fibre networks and the kind of challenges I have encountered working with our customers over the past 20 years or so.
In this blog I will be writing about some of the topics, big and small, facing network engineers and fibre networks and the kind of challenges I have encountered working with our customers over the past 20 years or so.
We all know that a big portion of the content in fibre networks comes from adult websites but this post is about a different kind of dirtiness, namely how coal and oil makes surfing on the Internet contribute to global warming.
Continuing on the subject of troubleshooting the network. Troubleshooting MPEG video has the benefit of a user that can tell you if it doesn't work and you can simply ask that user if the problem persists once you have fixed it. But what if there isn't any obvious way to determine if things are working, for example is that trashcan really signalling that its' full or does the temperature device really update the building climate control properly?
Live broadcast TV is one of the most popular services in fibre networks. You can get high quality pictures because there is enough bandwidth to send video uncompressed. But the nature of broadcast media is that it is very sensitive to packet loss or jitter. There is no retransmission of packets because it is live – you can’t hold the stream to get a lost packet back.
Last week I wrote about redundancy in FTTH networks and the fact that a layer 3 architecture makes redundant topologies easier to implement and operate. One area in modern networking that recently has embraced layer 3 is the data centers.
One of the bigger questions when deciding on the architecture of the active FTTH network is; should it be redundant?
If you are working in network engineering, hands-on with the routers and switches in the network, you probably have seen your fair share of network problems. However well you build it there is always some intermittent issue, some complaining user, some application that doesn’t get the throughput, some website that is unreachable.
It’s part of the everyday chaos of running a network to deal with big and small issues.
In this blog I will be writing about some of the topics, big and small, facing network engineers and fibre networks and the kind of challenges I have encountered working with our customers over the past 20 years or so.