Optical

Avago Technologies's new 28nm Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) core has achieved 32 Gbps performance while withstanding up to 40 dB of channel loss. The company says this level of performance will redefine...

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has deployed Ciena’s 5410 Packet-Optical Reconfigurable Switch System (RSS) and OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane software across its global network. PLDT is building a global...

GTS Central Europe, which provides integrated telecommunications solutions and data center services throughout Central and Eastern Europe, has deployed Ciena’s converged packet optical  solutions to upgrade its international network to...

Mellanox Technologies completed its previously announced acquisition of privately held IPtronics A/S, for $47.5 million in cash. IPtronics’ current location in Roskilde, Denmark, will serve as Mellanox’s first R&D center...

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has completed two critical technical whitepapers that address the increased adoption of OTN for 100G carrier networks and the use of PCE control technology as...

Infinera has demonstrated its converged packet-optical technology and Transport Software Defined Network (SDN) on an Infinera DTN-X network at Nissho Labs NETFrontier Center in Tokyo. Key aspects of the demonstration...

Researchers at MIT have developed a prototype device uses graphene sandwiched between two layers of a ferroelectric material to make simple, switchable plasmonic waveguides. Light can be confined in these...

Georgia Institute of Technology reported a milestone a quantum network milestone: entangling light with an optical atomic coherence composed of interacting atoms in two different states. Researchers developed a state-intensive...

KPN International is implementing Huawei's second generation soft-decision forward error correction (SD FEC) technology in its pan-European 100G WDM backbone. SD FEC is an advanced error correction technology for optical...

Marlin Equity Partners will combine Sycamore Networks Solutions with Coriant. Sycamore supplies optical switching and multiservice access platforms. Marlin Equity acquired Sycamore from its public shareholders in January 2013.  The...

GigOptix announced an expansion from the datacom market into optical links for consumer electronics. The company is positioning its parallel optical devices for use in embedded active optical cables (AOCs),...

Oclaro named Greg Dougherty as its new CEO, replacing the retiring Alain Couder, who is also stepping down as the company's chairman.  Oclaro's board of directors names Marissa Peterson as...

Ciena reported revenue of $507.7 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, up 6.3% YoY and up 12% sequentially. Ciena's net loss (GAAP) was $(27.1) million, or $(0.27) per...