Recently there has been several announcements around innovation for core networks, both from ourselves at Juniper for our T-Series Platform and others;  Juniper and Verizon also recently announced the deployment of the PTX in its Global MPLS backbone for 100Gb Ethernet.

While much of the focus of the messaging has been about how we cope with the need to scale the network core - the other critical point that the core network also needs to be simplified may have been overlooked slightly.