India’s Sify picks Ciena
Chennai-based Sify Technologies Limited has selected Ciena’s converged packet optical for its backbone. Sify's network reaches more than 1,400 cities and towns in India. Its Data Center Interconnect footprint covers...
Optical
Photonic technologies, chip-to-chip, optical interconnects, DCI, metro and long-haul connectivity
Acacia offers Coherent ZR Optics for CFP and CFP2 Pluggable Modules
Acacia Communications announced the general availability of two new high-speed coherent optical interconnect products for “ZR” applications in access, edge, and enterprise campus networks. Acacia's new 100G/200G CFP2-DCO ZR and...
CoreSite launches Open Cloud Exchange powered by Ciena Blue Planet
CoreSite will be launching an enhanced Open Cloud Exchange platform next month based Ciena’s Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestrator (MDSO), which is an open and vendor-agnostic software solution that rapidly...
Vodafone demos FlexEthernet with Ciena
Vodafone demonstrated what they believe is the world’s first programmable infrastructure based on FlexEthernet. The testing used Vodafone UK’s Red Stream network and equipment from Ciena. RedStream is an IP-based...
Ciena to acquire Packet Design for network analytics and path computation
Ciena agreed to acquire privately-held Packet Design, a provider of network performance management software focused on Layer 3 network optimization, topology and route analytics. Financial terms were not disclosed. Packet...
Ciena posts Q2 revenue of $730M, up 3% yoy
Ciena reported Q2 revenue of $730.0 million, up 3% year over year as compared to $707.0 million for the fiscal second quarter 2017. GAAP net income for the fiscal second...
Gigalight 100G optical modules pass cloud provider testing
Gigalight announced that its 100G series optical transceiver modules have passed the connectivity test of multiple cloud service providers. The Gigalight 100G series products include 100G QSFP28 SR4 multi-mode VCSEL...
GlobeNet implements Ciena’s GeoMesh with 6500 Packet-Optical Platform
GlobeNet, a wholesale provider of telecom infrastructure in the Americas, is implementing Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme solution, including the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform powered by WaveLogic Ai coherent optics, to deliver 200G...
Brazil’s Eletronet expands with Ciena packet/optical
Eletronet, which operates a national OPGW-based fiber optic network with more than 16 thousand km, 155 POPs in 18 States of Brazil, has selected Ciena’s converged packet optical solution to...
Ciena adds ONAP elements to its Blue Planet Platform
Ciena announced enhanced policy capabilities into its Blue Planet intelligent automation platform that incorporates the architectural framework from the Linux Foundation’s open-source Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) to aid network...
Ciena debuts packet aggregation switch and reconfigurable line system
At this week's OFC in San Diego, Ciena introduced a new 8180 Coherent Networking Platform and a 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS). The 8180 Coherent Networking Platform is a high-density...
Ciena posts quarterly revenue of $646.1 million, up 4% yoy
Ciena reported revenue of $646.1 million for the first quarter of its fiscal 2018, up 4% as compared to $621.5 million for the fiscal first quarter 2017. Ciena's fiscal first...
NeoPhotonics intros 53 GBaud Linear Optical Components
NeoPhotonics announced its 53 GBaud Linear Optical Component family, which includes PAM4 capable optical components for 100G and 400G cloud data center and other client applications, including drivers and EML...
A private dossier for networking and telecoms