Asides from operators, VIAVI also sees momentum in the lab and manufacturing segment, storage networking and chip development companies in India.

Data Center and Cloud services providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google have either set up local data centers in India, or are in the process of doing so, to better serve the needs of Indian enterprises and SMBs (small and medium businesses), leading to potential opportunities for VIAVI.

5. Pls elaborate on the latest developments related to Test & Measurement solutions at VIAVI?

A. VIAVI is fortunate to serve over 200 top-tier communications service providers—mobile, cable, telco—worldwide, and we continuously work with them to address revolutionary network changes that are happening across multiple technologies. Network operators are developing new architectures based on gigabit technologies, 5G, network function virtualization (NFV), heterogeneous networks, automation, and 400G cores. Enterprises are struggling to achieve comprehensive, real-time visibility across hybrid IT infrastructure including on-premise, physical, virtual and cloud domains. VIAVI’s technology roadmap is based on these and emerging requirements from our customers.

VIAVI has significantly advanced the state of the overall test, measurement and assurance industry across multiple technologies and ecosystems:

• The race to Gigabit: The first true DOCSIS 3.1 installation and service meter; field testing for G.fast pilots; the industry’s first CATV meter for DOCSIS 3.1, FTTx and Wi-Fi.
• Virtualization: The most advanced Virtual Test & Activation solution, winning the 2016 MEF Excellence Award for Third Network Proof of Concept Innovation.
• Serving the data center: the rapid increase of data consumption and bandwidth have forced enterprise data centers to begin adopting technologies previously reserved for service provider networks, including fiber.
• Lighting the path to 5G™: Even nominally mobile technologies such as 5G require fiber networks for front haul, backhaul and core to be successful.
• Building the 400G ecosystem: Delivery of the industry’s first and most widely distributed 400G test platform; demonstration of the industry’s first fully interoperable 400GbE test system with FEC. The timescale for each emerging high-speed technology to transition from being tested in the lab to being widely available in metro networks is getting shorter and shorter, and VIAVI is gearing its R&D plan to bring technologies downstream from lab to field test solutions in remarkably compressed intervals.