Service provider data center infrastructure
Let CommScope help your data center evolve in form and function
Service providers know the role of the central office (CO) continues to change and evolve to serve the demand for bandwidth-hungry video streaming. New virtualized applications and cloud services are more competitive when deployed close to your customers. To achieve this, new leaf-spine data center architectures transform the CO into highly scalable cloud-based service platforms.
CommScope has worked with service operators and data centers for decades, building innovative end-to-end solution ecosystems that empower our partners’ growth. The convergence of CO and data center positions us as the ideal partner for providers in this transformative time. Our Professional Services offers expert resources to help you qualify and add data center and fiber network capacity.
Challenges and opportunities
Embracing cutting-edge architecture
Service provider data centers are built to manage vast amounts of traffic, and to evolve with changing demand. Leaf-spine architecture holds the key to more efficient operation and more massive bandwidth.
Where CO meets DC
Central offices are being repurposed and reimagined. New data center infrastructure is pushing closer to the network edge, where it can more efficiently serve customers—and deliver better experiences.
Managing the data explosion
Customers are streaming, sharing and uploading like never before. This explosion of data use calls for better bandwidth—10G, 40G, 100G, and then…
Why CommScope?
Deep data center experience
CommScope is a leading authority in the development of breakthrough data center infrastructure, both copper and fiber.
Bridging CO and DC seamlessly
CommScope has been providing innovative data center solutions for decades, and we know how to integrate its functionality within your central office.
Taking performance to the edge
The edge of the network is also where service operators find the edge in efficiency, performance and user experience. CommScope can help you leverage the advantages to the utmost.
Featured products for service provider data centers
Intelligent, intuitive infrastructure management
Get real-time visibility into every physical connection and take network management to the next level with imVision® automated infrastructure management.
Fiber Entrance Cabinets
CommScope helps service operators manage high-density fiber at the edge with a wide range of entrance cabinets—some able to accommodate more than 10,000 ribbon fibers.
High-performance fiber raceways
High-density fiber networks can quickly get out of hand. Disorganized cabling slows troubleshooting, increases the chance of error, and costs plenty. CommScope’s fiber raceways keep your fiber network organized and accessible.
High-density fiber connectivity
Getting edge data centers up to speed quickly requires a strategy to effectively manage high-density fiber. CommScope’s SYSTIMAX® fiber solutions make it easy to install, operate and expand.
High Speed Migration
CommScope’s High Speed Migration platform is an integrated strategy that brings our best-performing solutions to bear to deliver the massive bandwidth your data center requires to meet demand.
Optical distribution frames
Built to support the highest-density fiber for FTTH applications, CommScope’s wide portfolio of modular, expandable optical distribution frames (ODFs) are easy to install, easy to fill and easy to work in.
Preterminated copper infrastructure
Your data center can evolve more freely with CommScope’s preterminated copper cabling solutions. It’s never been easier or faster to install our best-performing copper infrastructure.
Preterminated fiber infrastructure
Bring virtualized and cloud services online faster with factory-terminated and tested fiber infrastructure that greatly reduces installation time by eliminating field terminations.
Featured resources
Checklist for building an edge data center
Brochure
Integrating a data center into your CO environment brings a new set of challenges, particularly when you’re building at the edge. Virtualized environments and cloud applications call for specific solutions to meet power, environmental and design needs—here’s what you should be thinking about in the planning stage.
SDN and NFV gaining traction: is your infrastructure ready?
White Paper
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are redefining the kind of fiber infrastructure a modern service provider’s data center must employ. Are you ready for virtualization and cloud applications on a massive scale?
Fabric Networks – Designing your network for the future – from 10G through 400G and beyond
Solution Guide
Fabric network architecture holds the promise of 400G bandwidth, unlocking incredible potential for virtualization and cloud applications. Here’s what you need to know about the fiber infrastructure that runs it.
Strategies for a smart and connected data center
White Paper
The three keys to building a future-ready data center are a high-speed migration path, intelligent infrastructure management and cloud-grade performance. See what your network can do to implement these goals.
Additional resources
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White Paper: Checklist for building an edge data center - Dutch
To help plan a successful edge data center, CommScope has created a preliminary checklist and tips to consider for location, power, heating and cooling, design and physical infrastructure layer.
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Case Study: NTT Communications - Chinese
CommScope's data center intelligent infrastructure solutions enabled NTT Communications to boost data center performance.
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Design Guide: Fabric Networks
This guide provides an overview of fabric technology, along with design considerations and a practical look at implementing fiber connectivity that can accommodate changes in architecture a well as higher line rates as the network grows.
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White Paper: SDN and NFV gaining traction: is your infrastructure ready?
SDN and NFV technologies are being adopted by service providers globally as a way to drive down costs while enabling new service offerings. The physical layer infrastructure can play a critical part in ensuring a successful implementation. This paper outlines the best practices in designing and building the optimal physical layer to support SDN and NFV.
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White Paper: Strategies for a connected and efficient data center
This Data Center white paper explores opportunities to boost performance and profitability by increasing efficiencies.
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Download
White Paper: Checklist for building an edge data center
To help plan a successful edge data center, CommScope has created a preliminary checklist and tips to consider for location, power, heating and cooling, design and physical infrastructure layer.
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Download
White Paper: Checklist for building an edge data center - Dutch
To help plan a successful edge data center, CommScope has created a preliminary checklist and tips to consider for location, power, heating and cooling, design and physical infrastructure layer.
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Download
Case Study: NTT Communications - Chinese
CommScope's data center intelligent infrastructure solutions enabled NTT Communications to boost data center performance.
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Download
Design Guide: Fabric Networks
This guide provides an overview of fabric technology, along with design considerations and a practical look at implementing fiber connectivity that can accommodate changes in architecture a well as higher line rates as the network grows.
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Download
White Paper: SDN and NFV gaining traction: is your infrastructure ready?
SDN and NFV technologies are being adopted by service providers globally as a way to drive down costs while enabling new service offerings. The physical layer infrastructure can play a critical part in ensuring a successful implementation. This paper outlines the best practices in designing and building the optimal physical layer to support SDN and NFV.
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Download
White Paper: Strategies for a connected and efficient data center
This Data Center white paper explores opportunities to boost performance and profitability by increasing efficiencies.
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Download
White Paper: Checklist for building an edge data center
To help plan a successful edge data center, CommScope has created a preliminary checklist and tips to consider for location, power, heating and cooling, design and physical infrastructure layer.