LAN Complications
The useful life expectancy of traditional enterprise LAN infrastructure is short, historically being around five to seven years, while wireless technology continues to evolve in the 3-5 years range. At each one of these transitions, the switch and cable manufacturers expect you to completely rip-and-replace your hardware and infrastructure.
Every time higher bandwidth, like 10-gigabit, is introduced, it causes disruption in the LAN. The new equipment has different connectors, occupies greater space, consumes extra energy, emits additional thermals, introduces greater noise, crosstalk and radiation – and costs more money.
This time around with 10G, not all services, devices and users truly need 10 Gbps. For example, Microsoft recommends the use of 512 Kbps connections to optimize users’ cloud experience. Further, traditional switch vendors are complicating matters these days by increasing network complexity, day one capital cost, and year-over-year operational expenses.
So, how can you align space, energy, heat, noise, radiation and costs with your true network bandwidth requirements?
A Flexible Solution
The answer is a Tellabs FlexSym series Optical LAN that gives you greater flexibility to right-size connectivity across the enterprise LAN – inside buildings and across an extended campus. This solution better aligns space, energy, heat, noise, radiation, and costs with your real bandwidth requirements, which will not be 10 Gbps for everyone, especially when you consider that LAN throughput is ultimately limited by WAN connections, which are usually in the Mbps range anyway.
Check out NET100’s SD Optical LAN capabilities
Tellabs FlexSym Optical LAN provides flexible design across the end-to-end enterprise LAN that traditional designs simply cannot, such as choices for:
- Management
- Data Center
- Infrastructure
- Closet-Based
- Deep Fiber
Right-sizing the network means providing flexible connectivity options for 1M, 10M, 100M, 1G, 2.5G, 5G and 10G in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. A Tellabs FlexSym Optical LAN solution – implemented by NET100 – does exactly that!
Contact NET100 to arrange a site survey and to discuss LAN infrastructure solutions to fit your unique needs: (703) 995-5200 | info@net100ltd.com