Demand for optical transport dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) equipment will surpass $17 billion by 2026 and DWDM long haul system sales will grow more quickly than WDM metro systems, according to a DWDM market forecast from the Dell’Oro Group….
Verizon plans to announce tomorrow that it has achieved a data speed of 800 Gbps over a distance exceeding 400 miles over a single strand of fiber. The Verizon single fiber 800G trial used equipment from Infinera that works adaptively…
AT&T said it has deployed 400 Gbps connectivity on its backbone network between Dallas and Atlanta using white box hardware – which the company said is believed to be a first. “This isn’t a proof of concept, but a significant…
Fiber broadband networks have joined transportation networks, the electric grid, and water supply networks as necessary infrastructure components that ensure a community’s meaningful participation in the 21st century economy. Communities all across the globe and their broadband provider partners are…
Verizon and NEC have conducted a successful field trial in which non-purpose built fiber was used as distributed sensors to collect a variety of traffic data. The proof of concept was designed to see whether existing fiber – and not…
Indiana Fiber Network has begun a multi-million-dollar upgrade of its statewide network, which is owned by 20 small telcos in the state. The project will increase capacity and enhance reliability, said Darryl Smith, IFN vice president of operations, in an…
The latest bundling of initiatives from the organization originally known as the Metro Ethernet Forum goes beyond the organization’s original focus to also encompass wavelength, IP, SD-WAN, security-as-a-service and possibly other areas. The new bundling is dubbed MEF 3.0. MEF…
Windstream’s focus on SDN services is intensifying, with an announcement today of a growing market footprint. Windstream SDNow markets now number 50, including major cloud connectivity and peering locations across the U.S., the company reports. Marketed as Windstream SDN Orchestrated…
CHATSWORTH, CA —April 18, 2017—MRV Communications™, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVC) (“MRV®”), a global provider of innovative packet and optical solutions for service providers, data center operators and enterprises, announced that fiber-optic based regional broadband telecommunications service provider, BTC Broadband, has selected…
Strong interest in wave division multiplexing (WDM) on the part of network operators and key players in industry verticals, e.g. IT and data centers, will create a $15 billion optical transport equipment market by 2021, according to an optical transport equipment…
Petach Tikva, Israel, January 11, 2017 — ECI, a global provider of ELASTIC Network® solutions for service providers, critical infrastructures and data center operators, announced today that the Idaho Regional Optic Network (IRON) has chosen to upgrade its network infrastructure…
Facebook, through the Telecom Infra Project, announced the introduction of the Voyager open packet optical transport platform that they assert will boost metro and long-haul network transport bandwidth and overall performance while significantly lowering costs. Dubbed Voyager, the scalable network…
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