ZTE makes a big showing at MWC with its push for 5G
ZTE, now one of the world’s major network equipment suppliers, recently reported 2017 operating revenue of RMB 108.82 billion, 7.49% higher than a year earlier, but not the double-digit growth...
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Coriant debuts 1.2 Tbps modular sled for its Groove G3
Coriant introduced a new Coherent Multiservice Sled for its Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform. The new 1.2 Tbps modular sled leverages advances in integrated photonics and the latest 16nm coherent...
Dropbox expands global private network, taps Equinix Cloud Exchange
Dropbox is expanding its global private network by offering its global collaboration platform on the Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric. Dropbox is also launching six new points of presence across North...
Broadcom’s Jericho2 switch-routing chip boasts 10 Tbps capacity
Broadcom announced commercial availability of its Jericho2 and FE9600 chips, the next generation of its StrataDNX family of system-on-chip (SoC) Switch-Routers. The Jericho2 silicon boasts 10 Terabits per second of...
Glen Post to retire as CenturyLink’s CEO in May
Glen F. Post, III announced his intention to retire as CEO of CenturyLink effective the day of CenturyLink's 2018 Annual Shareholder Meeting in May. "After serving as CenturyLink's CEO for...
ADVA’s Oscilloquartz intros modular sync solution with 10G interfaces
ADVA Optical Networking's Oscilloquartz division introduced the first IEEE 1588 grandmaster clock device on the market to support PTP, NTP and SyncE over multiple 10Gbit/s Ethernet interfaces. The new OSA...
Interxion reports continued growth for European data centres
Interxion reported Q4 2017 revenue of 2017 of €29.9 million, an 18% increase over the fourth quarter of 2016 and a 4% increase over the third quarter of 2017. Recurring...
Mellanox milestone: one Million 100G ports with LinkX optical transceivers and cables
Mellanox Technologies announced a big milestone: volume shipments of LinkX optical transceivers, Active Optical Cables (AOCs) and Direct Attach Copper Cables (DACs), have surpassed the one million 100Gb/s QSFP28 ports...
CoreSite activates VMware Cloud on AWS
CoreSite announced the availability of dedicated, private connectivity into VMware Cloud on AWS in its first four markets. Direct connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS is now available through fiber...
A changing of the guard at SES
A changing of the guard is underway at SES, the global satellite communications company, with a new CEO and CFO expected to take up their posts in April. The new...
AT&T looks to IPO of minority stake in DIRECTV Latin America
AT&T filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential initial public offering (IPO) of a minority interest in the Class A common stock of...
Nokia’s PSE-3 chipset leverages probabilistic constellation shaping
Nokia unveiled its Photonic Service Engine 3 chipset featuring probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) that pushes fiber-optic performance close to the Shannon limit to fully exploit channel capacity. PCS is a...
NeoPhotonics shows 64 GBaud for 600G and 1.2T coherent transport
NeoPhotonics is currently shipping a suite of 64 GBaud optical components for coherent systems operating at 600G and 1.2T. 64 GBaud components double the symbol rate over standard 100G (32...
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