Google's ramp-up in investment in undersea fiber optics is in the vanguard of content providers' bid for greater control of international communications — and will bring them face-to-face with the market leader in photonic switching and tapping, Glimmerglass Networks. Recall Google Corp's outrage over the 2013 Edward Snowden revelation that the NSA had effectively tapped all … [Read more...]
TraceSpan – Where Fibre and LTE Monitoring Meet
Are LTE and fibre network surveillance worlds apart, requiring separate high-end monitoring appliances? Not necessarily, when the solution solutions provider is TraceSpan. Whilst some ISS hardware vendors specialise in surveillance of fibre nets and others in UMTS, 3G and LTE, TraceSpan goes where these seemingly disparate worlds can cross paths: the network-agnostic realm of … [Read more...]