"It's a good marketing tactic, but it's nothing new," said Padhye about the Infranet Initiative. Cisco, he said, will continue to help advance standards efforts by participating in working groups at the IETF and ITU, as it has historically. The existing standards bodies, Padhye said, "are the proper approach" to creating standards.
Fisch said the Infranet group is now asking member companies to contribute end-use case studies to help decide exactly how to ensure that the developed standards meet user needs. An early working reference architecture, he said, should be posted on the Infranet Web site within the next few weeks.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
