Ciena announced two significant optical transport deployments: Southern Cross Cable Network and QTS Realty Trust. Southern Cross Cable Network, which owns and operates a trans-Pacific submarine cable network connecting Australia,...
Fujitsu completed an Open ROADM interoperability field trial on AT&T’s network using the Virtuora multivendor software-defined networking solution and 1FINITY open hardware platform. The trial was an extension of the...
NeoPhotonics will sell its Access and Low Speed transceiver product lines to APAT Optoelectronics Components Co., of Shenzhen, China. The transaction is valued at approximately $26.4 million, inclusive of post-closing...
Elenion Technologies, a start-up headquartered in New York City with offices in San Jose, California and Munich, emerged from stealth and announced its plans to drive innovation in silicon photonics....
AT&T recently activated a 100 Gbps wavelength in its production network in the Dallas area that uses Open ROADM-compliant technology. Specifically, AT&T connected 2 high capacity IP/MPLS routers with transponders...
Ciena reported revenue of $716.2 million for its fiscal fourth quarter 2016, as compared to $692.0 million for the fiscal fourth quarter 2015. For fiscal year 2016, Ciena reported revenue...
The Optical Internetworking Forum has started work on two new FlexE projects. “The datacenter and communications industries are demanding a solution for flexible deployment and provisioning of Ethernet bandwidth,” said...
Following its Q4 meeting this month in Auckland, New Zealand, The Optical Internetworking Forum announced four new projects: 400ZR Interoperability Project -- will develop an implementation agreement for 400G ZR...
MACOM Technology Solutions announced volume production of its family of 25Gbps lasers for data center, mobile infrastructure and Fiber to the home (FTTH) applications. MACOM leverages Etched Facet Technology (EFT),...
Ciena unveiled its WaveLogic Ai, a programmable coherent modem that is positioned as a foundational technology for future "self-driving" networks. Ciena said its WaveLogic Ai coherent modem can drive 400G...
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) and Nokia Bell Labs have achieved record transmission capacity over a 6,600 km single mode fiber. The lab trial demonstrated a total 65 Tbps transmission using...
Luxtera announced a big milestone: the company has shipped more than one million Silicon Photonic Parallel Single Mode fiber 4-lane (PSM4) transceiver products. Each Luxtera 100G PSM4 optical transceiver product...
Inphi announced a 400GbE platform solution for next-generation 400G CFP8 modules. The solution uses Inphi's highly integrated, lowest power 4-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM4) digital signal processing (DSP) IC, which...
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