The most recent Broadband Forum “Plugfest” focused on 50G-PON and 25GS-PON interoperability. The Plugfest was conducted with LANPARK and AT&T Labs at the latter’s Plano, TX facility. LANPARK is an independent laboratory located in Tours,…
Conterra Networks’ carrier clients in Texas, North Carolina and Louisiana are gaining access to 400 Gbps wavelength services. The services will be provided by Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) platform. Conterra also serves the education,…
Fiber optic manufacturer OFS has announced that it is adding 100 jobs at its Georgia manufacturing facility, where products meeting Buy America requirements are built. Some of these are union jobs, according to the company.…
Nokia’s first Build America, Buy America-compliant products have come off the manufacturing line of a Sanmina facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. The products are optical line terminal (OLT) cards that are used in fiber networks.…
AFL, a manufacturer of fiber optic cabling and connectivity equipment, is the latest vendor to tout its compliance with Build America, Buy America requirements. The company is investing $50 million to expand its fiber optic…
Quantum technology has the ability to do either harm or good depending how it is used, as news this week about quantum key management reminds us. Toshiba and Ciena demonstrated a quantum secure communications platform…
At least two more companies have announced compliance with Build America, Buy America guidelines in recent weeks. The guidelines are designed to boost American manufacturing by specifying that equipment used in government funded broadband or…
VIAVI Solutions is acquiring Spirent Communications plc in a cash offer that values the acquisition at £1,005 million, or $1,277 million based on Monday’s British pound sterling to U.S. dollar exchange rate, the two companies…
Astound Business Solutions has launched 400G Wavelength, a commercial service focused on large carriers, educational institutions, enterprises and public sector organizations. The offering uses Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) 800G and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n)…
Frontier has introduced an automated cloud-based and artificial intelligence-managed network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform. The service provider is collaborating with Nile, developer of enterprise networking technology. The NaaS offering, which will feature wired and wireless capabilities, is…
The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced the availability of Wi-Fi Certified 7, which aims to ensure interoperability among Wi-Fi 7 devices. Wi-Fi 7 devices, already on the market, support a range of new features such as…
Over the last year, there has been a significant increase in the number of federal broadband grant programs that require a domestic preference (“Buy America”) for the purchase of manufactured products. The problem, however, is…