Independent Research Firm Unveils New Study that Identifies Data Center-to-Data Center WAN Connectivity as a Major Impediment for Big Data Deployments

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) December 13, 2011

Infineta Systems, the first and only provider of WAN optimization systems for Big Traffic workflows, today released the findings of a new research report that examines the intersection of Big Data and the enterprise WAN. Conducted by Infineta in collaboration with Internet Research Group (IRG), an independent analysis and research firm, the report looks in-depth at large organizations leveraging Big Data to make better business decisions, and identifies several emerging trends that are poised to become barriers to the adoption of Big Data technologies. Drawing on real-world customer use cases and extensive customer surveys, the research also validates that the WAN is a critical component of a distributed Big Data strategy and that breakthrough WAN optimization technologies are essential for the enterprise to fully harness the power and promise of Big Data.

Prior to this study, there was very little insight into the ability of existing WAN infrastructure to sustain the runaway growth of Big Data, stated Raj Kanaya, CEO and co-founder of Infineta Systems. Our collaborative research effort with IRG provides solid insights into the intersection of Big Data and the WAN, and how enterprises need to plan for and equip their infrastructure so they see material business benefits of Big Data sooner.

Big Data is the newest driver behind Big Traffic workflows traversing enterprise networks and refers to data sets that are not well suited for traditional storage or analytics systems. An estimated 80-90% of Big Data is comprised of semi- or unstructured data, unlike the structured data found in conventional data sets. In addition, Big Data is characterized by aggregate volumes in the 100s of terabytes to petabytes of distributed data. Indeed, mission-critical data sets are doubling or tripling in size every two years on average, with Gartner forecasting that enterprise data will grow approximately 800% by 2015.

Why Big Data Matters

Big Data heralds enormous change and untapped value for the enterprise, as new technologies emerge to handle Big Data analysis, presentation, management, and distribution. Key drivers behind these technologies include:

Independent Research Firm Unveils New Study that Identifies Data Center-to-Data Center WAN Connectivity as a Major Impediment for Big Data Deployments

Growing Optical Fiber Deployments to Drive Demand for Fiber Optic Components Worldwide, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, California (PRWEB) April 10, 2012

Follow us on LinkedIn As a transport medium for communication in the modern communication hungry world, fiber optics is a critical and omnipresent technology vital to intelligent human existence and comfort. The massive data explosion triggered by bandwidth heavy multimedia content, such as, video, voice, multimedia, has and will continue to throw the focus on data transfer rate capability of communication networks. The continuously growing number of users sharing a network, use of advanced applications, faster desktop PCs, and faster network servers, all of which contribute to traffic congestion, are creating a dire need for networks to support gigabit transmission speeds. This insatiable need for faster and faster transmission speeds is forecast to continue gathering momentum as businesses adopt bleeding edge networking technologies, such as, data warehousing, cloud computing, server virtualization, all of which have immense resource demands i.e. higher storage needs, and bandwidth-hogging applications.

As the new age of high speed data access continues to come through, its opportunities galore for fiber optic components. The growing magnitude of electronic communication can be put into perspective by the fact that Internet data traffic is increasing exponentially at a rate faster than the rate of complexity of ICs under the Moore’s Law. Against this backdrop, the ongoing transition to high speed fiber optic networks, like 40 and 100 Gbps networks, is likely to continue well into the future spawning opportunities for fiber optic components. For instance, upgradations to higher speed networks will generate demand for array type MPO connectors. While 10G and 40G implementations have been underway over the last couple of years and the technology has achieved reasonable levels of market penetration, 100G technology is still in the embryonic incubation phase. Major equipment vendors have successfully conducted field trials for 100GbE technology over the last few years. Initial deployments of 100G are expected to begin in the year 2012 when new equipments are scheduled to be launched. However, real deployments are expected to occur once 100G reaches its third generation level by 2014. With the ink barely dry on the newest 40GbE and 100GbE technology standard, potential evolution of 400GbE and 1TerabitE, the next rate of Ethernet speed, is already creating a flutter.

Investments in Fiber-to-the-Home/Building (FTTH/B) will continue to remain crucial to growth in the market. Liberalization of regulatory regimes in several countries and support from government for deployment of FTTH/B bodes well for the market. Globally, the number of fiber-connected homes is expected to increase at robust double-digit rates, driven by significant FTTH deployments by leading operators in North America, Asia Pacific and the EMEA. The use of broadband connections to enable teleworking, telecommuting from home, home security, and home automation services is driving home developers to deploy fiber networks. The emergence of FTTH as the only solution to fulfill the current and future data demands of a wired home network is poised to indirectly benefit the market for fiber optic components. FTTB architecture is mostly deployed in regions such as South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that have high population concentrations in urban areas dominated by apartment building. Research also indicates that rather than population density, it is the income level that has a more appropriate statistical correlation to the type of optical access deployment.

Deployment of fiber optics in the avionics sector is also poised to bring in its fair share of opportunities in applications, such as, remote communications, sensing, avionic platforms and ground-based communications. In this regard, harsh environment fiber optic components capable of withstanding extreme conditions of temperature ranging between 40

Growing Optical Fiber Deployments to Drive Demand for Fiber Optic Components Worldwide, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.