Optical

The optical transport equipment market almost hit $4 billion in 2Q16, growing six percent year-over year, according to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group. Some highlights: Huawei, the market...

Ciena added 30 new members to its Blue Orbit Ecosystem, which is focused on delivering applications and infrastructure platforms for real-world, multi-vendor software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV)...

In its first financial report as a public company, Acacia Communications posted Q2 revenue of $116.2 million, up 101% year-over-year. GAAP gross margin came in at 46.4% of revenue and...

Kyocera agreed to acquire all shares in Melles Griot KK — a Japan-based manufacturer specializing in optical components which is currently a subsidiary of U.S.-based IDEX Corporation. Kyocera Optec Co....

CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, and the StarLight International/National Communications Exchange Facility Consortium completed an optical transport trial that carried 300 Gbps...

Ciena reported Q2 revenue of $640.7 million as compared to $621.6 million for the fiscal second quarter 2015. Net income (GAA) amounted to $14.0 million, or $0.10 per diluted common...

Ciena introduced its Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit to help network operators speed up the creation and delivery of new on-demand, virtualized services within their SDN and NFV enabled networks. The...

Researchers at NTT, Fujikura, and Hokkaido University have demonstrated the world’s highest density optical fiber. The optical fiber has a diameter of less than 250 µm and contains 19 optical...

Videotron is deploying Ciena’s converged packet optical solution to upgrade its regional and backbone network in Quebec. Ciena said the deployment will allow Videotron to accommodate several terabits of traffic,...

IPG Photonics agreed to acquire Menara Networks, a supplier of enhanced optical transmission modules and systems for cable multi-system operators (MSOs), carriers and data centers, for $46.8 million in cash....

INOC, a start-up that offers a  24×7  Network  Operations  Center  (NOC) service for enterprises and carriers, is introducing a specialized monitoring practice for optical networks. The company said this new,...

KDDI has selected Ciena for the Japan Information Highway (JIH) submarine cable upgrade project. Ciena’s GeoMesh submarine solutions will be used to provide high-capacity 100G services on KDDI's 3,000km link...

Corning agreed to acquire Alliance Fiber Optic Products (AFOP) for $18.50 per share in cash, representing a transaction value of approximately $305 million. AFOP, which is based in Sunnyvale, California...