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NEC supplied the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (10G-EPON) system for KDDI’s “au Hikari Home 10 giga” an FTTH service for individual subscribers. “au Hikari Home 10 giga” enables bi-directional service at up to 10 Gbps. NEC’s 10G-EPON system consists of an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) installed within KDDI facilities and an Optical Network […]
Orange retains the top position on Vertical Systems Group’s 2017 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD, while AT&T moves up to second, displacing Colt. The results are as follows (in rank order based on retail port share): Orange Business Services (France), AT&T (U.S.), Colt (U.K.), CenturyLink (U.S.), BT Global Services (U.K.), Verizon (U.S.) and NTT (Japan). The […]
TE SubCom is beginning construction of a beach landing platform in Los Angeles to serve multiple subsea cables. Easements, permitting and agreements are complete and groundbreaking will begin imminently. TE Subcom said LAX beachhead project will use horizontal directional drilling to install bore pipes for the shore-end landing due to the minimal impact this type […]
Foxconn Interconnect Technology showcased its latest 400 Gbps Interconnect solutions at the recent Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference & Exhibition in San Diego. QSFP-DD product and technology demonstrations: Live traffic up to 400 Gbps will be run over interconnects utilizing FIT QSFP-DD cables, cages and connectors. 400G QSFP-DD SMF DR4 technology demonstration. QSFP-DD products: FIT […]
Worldwide spending on IoT security will reach $1.5 billion in 2018, a 28 percent increase from 2017 spending of $1.2 billion, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that through 2020, the biggest inhibitor to growth for IoT security will come from a lack of prioritization and implementation of security best practices and tools in IoT initiative […]
IAR Systems Group AB, based in Uppsala, Sweden agreed to acquire Secure Thingz, a provider of advanced security solutions for embedded systems in the Internet of Things (IoT). IAR Systems, which already owned approximately 20 percent of the shares in Secure Thingz, will pay approximately 230 MSEK (US$27.9 million) for the remaining 80%. IAR will […]
Telstra has partnered with Microsoft to deliver native voice calling services from the Microsoft cloud with the launch of Telstra Calling for Office 365. The Telstra Calling for Office 365 service, which will be available for Telstra’s Australian business customers from the middle of 2018, lets customers securely access cloud collaboration tools combined with voice […]
MobilSense Technologies, a Los Angeles-based provider of managed mobility services (MMS) software, agreed to acquire MobilePhire, a mobile data management (MoDM) company. Financial terms were not disclosed. MobilePhire, which was created by ex AT&T employees, enables real-time analytics and policy controls for data users without the need for installed agents on monitored mobile devices. MobileSense […]
Shares in Dropbox popped by over 40% to over $29 on the first day of trading on Nasdaq. The Nasdaq listing is DBX. The initial public offering (IPO) price range as $18 to $20. Dropbox passed the milestone of over 500 million registered users in March 2016. At the time, the Dropbox API was generating […]
Tintri, which supplies enterprise cloud storage solutions, announced that Ian Halifax, CFO at Tintri, will leave the company on April 30, 2018. The company said the departure is not based on any disagreement with the company’s accounting principles or practices or financial statement disclosures. Earlier this month, named Tom Barton as its new CEO, replacing […]
Qualcomm announced that all 10 of its Director nominees have been re-elected to the Qualcomm Board of Directors: Barbara T. Alexander, Jeffrey W. Henderson, Thomas W. Horton, Ann M. Livermore, Harish Manwani, Mark D. McLaughlin, Steve Mollenkopf, Clark T. “Sandy” Randt, Jr., Francisco Ros, and Anthony J. Vinciquerra. Qualcomm Board will not renominate Paul Jacobs […]
AT&T and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced a collaboration to integrate the ONFs’ work on multi-gigabit passive optic networks (PON) with the service automation system, ONAP. The effort will integrate VOLTHA (Virtual Optical Line Termination Hardware Abstraction), the open source software stack powering PON networks, with ONAP. AT&T said the idea is to develop […]
ZTE, working in collaboration with OFS and NeoPhotonics, transmitted 66GBaud PDM-16QAM 400Gb/s WDM signals over 6,000 km on 100 km spans with the channel spacing of 75GHz. This sets a new world record for 400G ultra-long-haul (ULH) high-speed transmission distance, according to the companies. In this test, the 506 Gb/s PDM-16 QAM signals after probability […]
