While cloud and software rightly get plenty of attention in industry coverage, Nokia’s SReXperts/Wavelength event offers an important window into progress and innovation in places that end users likely never see – and where most of the money in telecom is actually spent. After several years of Covid-induced delay, Nokia’s SReXperts and Wavelengths shows were back recently, complete with in-depth access to experts, demos, and even hands-on with hardware and software. Appledore attended Nokia’s annual Americas IP+Optical event, held this year in Orlando Florida. The event was well attended, with a broad audience from many sectors (cable, telco, enterprise) and geographies (including non-US). The primary audience for this show is Nokia’s customer base and, presumably, integration partners, as well as those who select, specify, buy, and integrate these products. Consequently, the show is a balanced mixture of cool new tech, important upgrades, new features, API extensions, and best practices. This is really two events running in parallel – SReXperts for routing and Wavelengths for the optical side. While Appledore focused primarily on the routing side of the show (SReXperts), much of the news blurred the lines between the two with significant focus on cross-layer management, pluggable optics on SR-series routers, […]