Putting our networks to the test Surprisingly, perhaps, the root causes of many network problems point towards errors during installation, David Zambrano of VIAVI tells us more
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or a business that will, in just one year’s time, celebrate its 100th birthday, one might assume that the VIAVI team is well accustomed to change. Yet, the world around us has transformed dramatically in recent years as we welcome the increasingly close embrace of technology and communications into our everyday lives. Our own roots as an organization are firmly planted within the bits and bytes of testing, and enablement of every form of high-performance network. And we still relish rolling our sleeves up with network teams as they drive their networks faster and further.
However, as we gain a deeper understanding of project workflow demands, this has subsequently directed a greater focus upon taking time, complexity, and risk out of the equation. Qualifying installation is key This is, perhaps, more important than ever, as renewed data center expansion around the world applies increased pressure onto supply chain and service enablement teams. Accelerated delivery targets may force installation companies to accept increased risk to ensure on-time delivery. We acknowledge the reality that network testing can
David Zambrano VIAVI
be very time-consuming, and by its nature tends to occur towards the latter stages of a project, neither of which is ideal as time pressure increases. It can therefore be a temptation to assume, after all the development and quality work done by cabling vendors, that your brand-new fiber infrastructure will deliver on expectations fresh out-of-the-box. We see this occasionally factoring into teams being instructed to do a minimum of testing, just enough to get a feel for the network, but not enough to impact delivery dates. With disaggregated networking becoming more commonplace and
A recent industry study undertaken by VIAVI, found that installers can spend as much as 20 percent of their working week troubleshooting physical network issues
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