Heavy Networking 504: The State Of Optical Networking In 2020

If you’re new to DWDM and optical networking, this Heavy Networking episode aims to peel back some of the layers of these technologies to help you understand how they work, and whether you have business applications that could use DWDM.
My guest is Chris Tracy, a network and systems engineer at ESnet. ESnet, or the Energy Sciences Network, provides networking services for the U.S. Energy Department research labs.
We discuss:

* Designing a DWDM network
* Differences between CWDM and DWDM
* The importance of optical cabling performance
* Varities of optical networking equipment
* Operational challenges
* Using DWDM for data center interconnects
* More

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