100G+ Data-center evolution and challenges: don't try to reinvent the wheel!

The growing bandwidth needs in the interconnect--even within the four walls of the data center, the infrastructure requirements to deliver low latency and packet loss, and the need for the best possible quality of service (QoS)/quality of experience (QoE) require testing of both the physical- and service-layer infrastructures. Nicholas Gagnon, Business Development Manager – Data Center, EXFO and Jean-Marie Vilain, Product Manager – T&D, EXFO, will explain how to build a solid plan for fiber characterization, troubleshooting, transceiver quality checks, service testing and service assurance monitoring to achieve targeted-level reliability or the uptime objective.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

• The trends and evolution of the data-center market.
• The main physical-layer infrastructures that can be leveraged to build next-generation data centers.
• Why connector insertion and return losses are increasingly important for migrating to 100G+ interfaces.
• The most relevant test and monitoring steps from construction to turn-up and troubleshooting, for 100G+ interfaces such as CFP4 and QSFP28, and network performance tests in the intra- and interconnect.
• Service assurance possibilities offered to the DC industry, including infrastructure monitoring, cloud monitoring and subscriber analytics.