Infinera Posts Q4 Revenue of $128 Million and 22 DTN-X Commitments
Infinera reported Q4 2012 revenue of $128.1 million compared to $112.2 million in the third quarter of 2012 and $112.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. GAAP gross margins...
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Dow Corning and IBM Develop Polymer Waveguide
Dow Corning and IBM have developed a new type of polymer material capable of transmitting photonic signals at high speed. The researchers have fabricated thin sheets into flexible optical waveguides....
KDDI Selects Infinera’s DTN-X
KDDI has selected Infinera's DTN-X platform to upgrade the Miyazaki – Okinawa Cable network in Japan. The upgrade will enable 100G services across the country. KDDI owns and operates the...
Infinera Completes OSMINE Services Process for DTN-X and DTN
Infinera has completed Operations Systems Modification for the Integration of Network Elements (OSMINE) Services process for the its DTN-X platform and the latest release of its DTN platform. This was...
Marlin Equity Partners Acquires Sycamore Networks
Marlin Equity Partners, a Los Angeles California-based private investment firm with over US$1 billion of capital under management, completed its acquisition of Sycamore Networks. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sycamore...
euNetworks Delivers Dark Fiber for Telehouse Deutschland
euNetworks, which operates 13 metro fiber networks in key European cities, has been selected as the exclusive supplier of fiber connectivity to Telehouse Deutschland, one of the largest data centers...
OIF Looks to 400G Modules, Transport SDN, E-NNI Neighbor Discovery
At its meeting last week in New Orleans, the Optical Internetworking Forum approved an implementation agreement for RSVP Extensions for User Network Interface (UNI) 2.0 Signaling Specification Release 2. OIF...
OVH Interconnects its Cloud Data Centers with Infinera’s 500G Super-Channels
OVH, the leading web hosting in Europe with more than 140,000 physical servers online, will deploy the Infinera DTN-X platform to interconnect its data centers via its pan-European network. The...
Tata Upgrades to 100G on Trans-Atlantic Cable with Ciena
Tata Communications is preparing to launch 100G services on its TGN-Atlantic (TGN-A) subsea cable system from New York to London. The first phase of the 100G deployment is expected to...
Vodafone and Huawei Test 2 Tbps WDM
Vodafone and Huawei have successfully tested 2 Terabit per second optical transmission over a 3,325km span on Vodafone's live network. The field trial achieved a capacity 20-times higher than current...
Ciena’s WAN Decision Tree — Build or Buy
Ciena published a WAN infrastructure decision tree to help enterprises choose what type of network they need either for interconnecting data centers or connecting corporate sites. The infographic helps decide...
Comcast Upgrades Ciena’s 6500 in Core Network
Comcast Cable has selected Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with third generation WaveLogic coherent optical line interfaces for use in its core network. Ciena is also providing Comcast with network...
Farice Upgrades Iceland-Denmark Cable to 40G with Ciena
Farice, the main provider of international capacity from Iceland to mainland Europe, is upgrading the DANICE submarine cable system connecting Iceland with Denmark using Ciena's 40G coherent optical transport technology....
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