Monitoring dark fiber before problems arise: active monitoring with the Adtran ALM
By definition, dark fiber is dark. No signal travels through it, there is no traffic to measure, and a traditional monitoring system detects nothing. Yet fiber-optic cables do degrade: connectors wear out, cables become damaged, and connections weaken due to temperature fluctuations or mechanical stress. If you don’t monitor this, you won’t notice it until the service goes down.
After VMware: what alternatives are there for edge and remote site infrastructure?
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in 2023 was accompanied by significant changes to licensing. Perpetual licenses were discontinued, the product portfolio was reorganized into bundles, and for many organizations, costs rose significantly. This has accelerated the search for alternatives, particularly for environments where VMware has historically been widely used: edge locations and remote sites.