Sony Acquires Optical Archive Inc.
Sony Corporation of America acquired Optical Archive Inc. (OAI), a start-up developing optical storage systems for the data center market. Financial terms were not disclosed. OAI was founded by Frank...
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Dell’Oro: WDM Sales Drive Optical Transport Equipment Market in Q1
The Optical Transport equipment market reached $2.8 billion in the first quarter of 2015, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. WDM equipment sales accounted for the majority of...
ECI Announces ElastiCLOUD DCI Solution
ECI announced its ElastiCLOUD data center interconnect solution. The company said its platform will support more than 25T on a single fiber, offer low power consumption at less than 85W/100G,...
Ciena Intros Compact Waveserver for Data Center Interconnect
Ciena introduced a new data center interconnect (DCI) platform that allows cloud, Internet content providers and data center providers to quickly scale bandwidth between facilities. The new Waveserver stackable interconnect...
Telstra Sets Low latency 100 Gbps Link with Ciena/Ericsson
Telstra has achieved a new landmark for low latency, high capacity non-regenerated optical transmission between Melbourne, Sydney and Perth – a round trip distance of 10,358 km - using equipment...
Ciena to Acquire Cyan for $335 Million
Ciena agreed to acquire Cyan for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $400 million (or approximately $335 million net of cash). Cyan, which is based in Petaluma, California, supplies its...
Korea-Japan Cable Upgrades to 100G with Ciena
The Korea-Japan Cable Network (KJCN) has selected Ciena's GeoMesh submarine solution for a 100G network upgrade. KJCN has deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, powered by WaveLogic coherent optics. The network...
Researchers at NTT Envision Quantum Repeaters in Future Photonic Networks
Researchers at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and the University of Toronto are proposing all-photonic quantum repeaters for long-distance quantum communication. If achieved, such devices would disprove the necessity...
Indiana Fiber Network Expands with Ciena
Indiana Fiber Network (IFN), which is operated by 20 local exchange telephone companies throughout the state, will deploy converged packet optical and packet networking solutions from Cienato ensure network resiliency,...
Zayo Extends 100G Wavelengths in London, Paris, AMS, Frankfurt
Zayo announced an extension of its 100G wavelength network in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. The company said it has recently completed a project that involves the consolidation of a...
ALU Intros Flexible Wavelength Routing on its 1830 PSS
Alcatel-Lucent introduced a wavelength routing solution that can be deployed on its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS), which the company said brings greater flexibility to the optical transport network while...
CALIENT Debuts LightConnect Fabric Manager Software
CALIENT Technologies introduced its LightConnect Fabric Manager interconnect orchestration software for its S-Series family of Optical Circuit Switches (OCS) for intra-data center connectivity . The LightConnect orchestration software creates an...
Ciena Joins NSF’s GENI Project
Ciena has joined the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project that supports "at scale" research in networking, distributed systems, cloud services, security, and novel applications....
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