Optical

Telenet, a Liberty Global company and the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium, is deploying Ciena 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) 400G QSFP-DD...

Windstream Wholesale has deployed VIAVI's Remote Fiber Test System (RFTS) into Windstream's Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to enable dark fiber and wavelength monitoring.  Fiber routes are continuously and proactively monitored to...

Momentum, a managed cloud services provider based in Atlanta, is utilizing Ciena's (Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform, for connectivity to cloud computing platforms, such as Microsoft’s Azure. The Ciena platform...

Verizon carried a 1.0 Tbps single wavelength over the Cisco NCS 2000 line system over 205km traversing 14 fiber central offices.  The trial was conducted over Verizon’s live production network using Cisco’s...

The OIF announced election results for its key leadership positions: Board of Directors: Jeff Hutchins, Ranovus, was re-elected to the Board and continues as Physical & Link Layer (PLL) Working Group –...

Lumentum agreed to acquire Cloud Light, a supplier of fiber optic transceivers and active opticalcables for intra-datacenter optical interconnect, in a transaction valued of approximately $750 million. Lumentum said the acquisition will accelerated its push...

Jabil will take over the manufacture and sale of Intel’s current Silicon Photonics-based pluggable optical transceiver product lines and the development of future generations of such modules. "This deal better...

STL announced a 160-micron optical fiber developed in India. This product meets telecom-grade optical performance standards and complies with the ITU G.657A2 standard. This STL said its 160-micron fibre packs...

The range of optical products is recognised by US-based Sphera, an ESG performance consulting services company, and verified by Metsims Sustainability Consulting, a global sustainability consulting firm. These ISO 14024...

Dell'Oro Group is forecasting that coherent optical transceiver shipments will grow at a 17 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for the next five years. Additionally, the Coherent Optics market...

A new Advanced Photonics Coalition was announced at the OpticaPhotonic-Enabled Cloud Computing Industry Summit, which was hosted at Juniper Networks’ Aspiration Dome in Sunnyvale, California. Picking up on the previous...

FibreConnect, a wholesale telecom infrastructure developer in Italy, has  launched its broadband services using equipment from Tejas Networks, including DWDM/PTN/OTN for Core to xPON and Ethernet for Access.    As a...

AFL, a subsidiary of Fujikura Ltd. and global leader in optical fiber network infrastructure, unveiled plans to construct a state-of-the-art, sustainable manufacturing facility in Poland to meet rapidly growing bandwidth needs across the region....