Case Study
Géant Selects Infinera Packet- Aware Optical Transport Network To Solve “Elephant Flow” Problem
CASE STUDY GÉANT SELECTS INFINERA PACKET- AWARE OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK TO SOLVE “ELEPHANT FLOW” PROBLEM CUSTOMER GÉANT CHALLENGE Overcome Ethernet LAG limitations to better support “elephant flows” above 10 Gb/s Facilitate the upgrade path from 10 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s link speeds Reduce the cost of packet forwarding on backbone routers Flexibly upgrade GÉANT IP trunk capacity to keep up with traffic growth SOLUTION Use Infinera PXM in