Optical

Oclaro agreed to sell its Amplifier and Micro-Optics business (the Business) to II-VI Incorporated for $88.6 million. The deal includes intellectual property, inventory and equipment.  II-VI will also hire approximately...

Ciena announced new packet networking solutions for supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services. Ciena’s new 5160 and 5142 Service Aggregation Switches are small form-factor platforms that enable efficient delivery and...

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Carrier Working Group has completed a carrier requirements document addressing the transport network relevant part of a Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture. The document, "OIF...

Oclaro has begun sampling a low-cost 10G Ethernet SFP+ transceiver for single-mode fiber applications up to 2 km. The 10G SFP+ CPRI transceiver is optimized for wireless backhaul applications and...

Oclaro reported revenues of $136.1 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, compared with revenues of $141.6 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2013.  GAAP gross margin was...

Farice, which provides fiber capacity from Iceland to mainland Europe, has deployed Ciena’s 100G coherent optical transport technology to upgrade its submarine cable system that connects Iceland and Scotland. Farice...

CALIENT Technologies announced preliminary interoperability testing results of its newly available OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) application programming interface (API) for its S320 optical circuit switch. In testing by Tallac Networks,...

Ciena reported revenue of $538.4 million for it third fiscal quarter of 2013. Net loss (GAAP) was $(1.2) million, or $(0.01) per common share, which compares to a GAAP net...

After a slow start to the year and five preceding quarters of lackluster sales, 2Q13 global optical networking (ON) revenue grew decidedly, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Results of...

24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network, a new carrier backed by a Baltimore based investment group, is preparing to launch high-speed transport and Ethernet services between Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Ashburn, Virginia.  The...

Proximion, a privately-held company that supplies optical modules and sub-systems based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) technology, reported record sales growth for the six-month period ended June 30 2013, up...

The total optical transport equipment market returned to a positive year-over-year growth rate in the second quarter of 2013 following five consecutive quarters of decline, according to a newly published...

The optical network hardware market, including WDM and SONET/SDH equipment, totaled $3.3 billion worldwide in 2Q13, up 27% over the preceding quarter, according to a new report from Infonetics Research....