by Pivot
Tag: Optical
Behind the $16.5 Billion Nokia/ Alcatel-Lucent Merger Plan
Word that Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent were close to a merger agreement has proven true. The two companies today announced “their intention to combine to create an innovation leader in next generation technology and services for…
Behind Indatel 100G Network Upgrade
A 100 Gbps network upgrade is underway for the Indatel consortium of independent regional and statewide fiber networks. By interconnecting fiber network resources, the group is working towards assembling a single seamless network covering a…
Indiana Fiber Network to Expand Broadband Using Ciena
HANOVER, Md. and Indianapolis, IN – April 8, 2015 — To support its recently announced broadband expansion project, Indiana Fiber Network, LLC (IFN) has selected converged packet optical and packet networking solutions from Ciena® (NYSE:…
FairPoint Wholesale Data Center Services Illustrate Small Telco Opportunities
Cloud providers are the target market for a new wholesale data center offering from FairPoint Communications announced yesterday. The company also will be offering those services through resellers, including other network and data center operators…
Exec Shares Verizon 100G Metro Plans
Verizon expects eventually to offer 100G wavelength and Carrier Ethernet services based on the 100G metro optical equipment the company today said it plans to deploy. “Both wave and Ethernet services are supported” by the…
Eastern Oregon Telecom Goes Gigabit with Huawei
PLANO, Texas (March 9, 2015) – Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that Eastern Oregon Telecom (EOT), a local area leader in voice, broadband Internet and fiber transport…
Bell Labs Finds Big Savings from Optical-IP Convergence
Network operators that leverage and converge optical network transport and IP technologies stand to reduce network capacity demands by 40 percent, according to a study by Bell Labs, the industrial research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. Operators…
Indiana Fiber Network Plans 100 Gbps Upgrade
Indiana Fiber Network plans to upgrade its core fiber network to support speeds of 100 Gbps, matching and even exceeding the speeds of networks operated by some of the world’s largest carriers. IFN, operated by…
BPS Telephone Modernizes Network with Ciena
Facing an urgent need to meet customer demands for affordable and reliable voice and high-speed residential Internet services, BPS Telephone worked with Ciena® and LightRiver Technologies, a Ciena Diamond BizConnect channel partner, to upgrade its…
ZTE Leads Next Generation PON Development
15 September 2014, Las Vegas, USA – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), today announced that the industry’s first ASIC based XG-PON1 (10 Gigabits per second passive…
Cyan SDN Strategy Gains Steam with New APIs
One of the manufacturers that seems to have made considerable progress on implementing vaunted software defined networking (SDN) technology is Cyan, which announced today that it has added four SDN-based application programming interfaces (APIs) for…
Rural Broadband Operator Selects ADVA for Optical Networking
Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA. July 15, 2014. ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Rural Broadband Services Corporation (RBSC) is using ADVA Optical Networking’s Ethernet Services Suite (ESS) to bring broadband connectivity to extremely underserved areas of…