Ciena announced its participation in SARNET, a four year collaboration agreement between the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), and an airline to explore...
O2, the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited, is deploying Ciena’s converged packet optical solutions in anew backbone network that will connect major UK cities, including London, Manchester, Edinburgh and...
Alcatel-Lucent and HP are expanding their long-running alliance to now deliver enterprise data center networking, data replication and new storage architectures connected with IP and optical backbones. The solutions, which...
Ciena reported fiscal second quarter 2015 revenue of $621.6 million as compared to $560.1 million for the fiscal second quarter 2014. Net income (GAAP) was $20.7 million, or $0.17 per...
Sony Corporation of America acquired Optical Archive Inc. (OAI), a start-up developing optical storage systems for the data center market. Financial terms were not disclosed. OAI was founded by Frank...
The Optical Transport equipment market reached $2.8 billion in the first quarter of 2015, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. WDM equipment sales accounted for the majority of...
ECI announced its ElastiCLOUD data center interconnect solution. The company said its platform will support more than 25T on a single fiber, offer low power consumption at less than 85W/100G,...
Ciena introduced a new data center interconnect (DCI) platform that allows cloud, Internet content providers and data center providers to quickly scale bandwidth between facilities. The new Waveserver stackable interconnect...
IBM announced another significant advancement with is CMOS integrated nano-photonics technology. The company said its researchers for the first time have tested a fully integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip,...
Telstra has achieved a new landmark for low latency, high capacity non-regenerated optical transmission between Melbourne, Sydney and Perth – a round trip distance of 10,358 km - using equipment...
Ciena agreed to acquire Cyan for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $400 million (or approximately $335 million net of cash). Cyan, which is based in Petaluma, California, supplies its...
The Korea-Japan Cable Network (KJCN) has selected Ciena's GeoMesh submarine solution for a 100G network upgrade. KJCN has deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, powered by WaveLogic coherent optics. The network...
Researchers at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and the University of Toronto are proposing all-photonic quantum repeaters for long-distance quantum communication. If achieved, such devices would disprove the necessity...
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