Carriers Running Out of Staff Who Can Manage TDM Networks
Most carriers will phase out their legacy time-division multiplexing operations by about 2030, said Francois Caron, senior director-product management, at network solutions provider Ribbon, on a Light Reading webinar Thursday. “We’re going to run out of people who can operate…
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existing TDM networks,” Caron predicted. TDM technologies are at a point where they have “outlived” the people who built them, understand them and know how to operate them, he said. “Finding someone with TDM knowledge who can continue to operate the gear that’s in today’s networks is going to be a massive challenge,” he said: “You don’t have that much time left to determine what you’re going to do with those legacy assets.” Carriers need to ask, “Do I really need a TDM copper network. What if we just bypassed the entire copper network if and when possible,” Caron said.