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Zayo has deployed the world’s longest known terrestrial 800G optical wavelength in a commercial network — 1,044.51 km along a fiber route stretching from Springville, Utah to Reno, Nevada. The transmission is powered by Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent technology. In recent months, Zayo has been making major investments in the company’s fiber network throughout North […]
OE Solutions announced new 100G Digital Coherent Optical (DCO) transceiver modules targeted at access network applications. The C-band tunable DWDM modules, which will be available in both QSFP-DD and QSFP28 form factors to match typical slot configurations for high-capacity access network equipment, support both unamplified applications as well as amplified network applications. The current transition […]
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded Verizon Public Sector three Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) task order awards worth $966.5 million. Under the Pentagon task order valued at $515.3 million, Verizon will partner with the DOD to transition the entire Pentagon military and civilian population from copper-based telephony to IP-based services, providing a converged-enterprise environment […]
The FCC revoked the license of Pacific Networks Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, ComNet (USA) LLC, to provide domestic interstate and international telecommunications services within the United States. The FCC order directs the companies to discontinue any domestic or international services that they provide pursuant to their section 214 authority within sixty days following […]
Türk Telekom announced the sale of the 55% stake owned by LYY Telekomünikasyon to Türkiye Wealth Fund (TVF), was signed between the parties (TVF and LYY). The deal was valued at US$1.65 billion. In a statement on the subject, Arda Ermut, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of TWF stated: “As TWF we […]
NTT is collaborating with Schneider Electric on Private 5G (P5G) solutions for manufacturing applications. In early 2022, the P5G platform will be piloted at Schneider’s Lexington Smart Factory, the first of Schneider Electric’s U.S. plants to become a Smart Factory showcase site leveraging IoT connectivity, Edge analytics, and predictive analytics to drive energy efficiency and […]
Tom Mitcheltree, Manager, Application Engineering, US Conec, provides an overview of a new white paper with Optec describing a next gen, flexi circuit fiber shuffle for high-density switches. https://youtu.be/p-V3COt78LU
Different options for optical connecting from the faceplate of a switch are now available. Tom Mitcheltree, Manager, Application Engineering, US Conec, provides a look. https://youtu.be/fUJJyouFxZQ
Juniper Networks is extending its Apstra software platform to edge data centers with collapsed fabric topologies. The latest release of Apstra software also enables tighter Zero Trust security with new policy assurance and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) capabilities, as well as simplified migration from legacy data centers with new Apstra professional services. Specifically, the latest […]
There is a lot of discussion about optical I/O and the challenge of getting photonics integrated much closer to compute units, says Mark Wade, co-founder and CTO, Ayar Labs. Last year, Ayar Labs demonstrated its end-to-end, DWDM micro-ring solution for optical I/O. This year, it’s clear that big parts of the industry are heading in […]
The demonstrations and discussions at OFC22 reveal a significant interest in co-packaging, says Rebecca Schaevitz, Product Line Manager & Principal Engineer, Broadcom. We’re seeing the first results and now the debate is shifting from whether” co-packaging will to happen” to “when co-packaging will happen.”
Intel announced plans to invest an initial 17 billion euros into a leading-edge semiconductor fab mega-site in Magdeburg, Germany, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt. Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 2023 and production planned to come online in 2027. The new facility will use Intel’s most advanced, Angstrom-era transistor technologies, serving the […]
Ericsson and Vodafone completed a 5G standalone (SA) network slicing trial in a joint lab demonstration. The lab trial, which is the first of its kind for a communications service provider in the UK, demonstrated an on-demand premium 5G network slice using Ericsson’s 5G Standalone containerized core architecture and end-to-end automated orchestrated solution, including 5G […]
