StarWave, a Chicago-based research and education (R&E) communication services exchange facility, is deploying Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform for 100GbE bandwidth interconnection. This upgrade will facilitate transfers for multiple sciences, such...
NeoPhotonics agreed to acquire EMCORE Corporation's tunable laser and transceiver product lines for approximately $17.5 million, which consists of $15.0 million and a working capital and inventory adjustment of approximately...
The Europe India Gateway (EIG) consortium completed the first phase of a 100G upgrade on its international submarine cable system, spans approximately 15,000 kilometers and connects 12 countries across three...
The Asia America Gateway (AAG) consortium, which operates a 20,000 km submarine cable system connecting Southeast Asia with the U.S. mainland, will deploy Ciena’s GeoMesh submarine solution, including the 6500...
The global optical transport network (OTN) market totaled $4.3 billion in the first half of 2014 (1H14), an increase of 9% from the first half of 2013 (1H13), however sales...
An international team of researchers led by professor Roberto Morandotti of INRS-EMT in Canada announced a new method to achieve a different type of photon pair source that fits into...
ClariPhy has begun commercial shipments of its LightSpeed-II CL20010 coherent system-on-a-chip (SoC) that features configurable data rates from 40G to 200G per wavelength. The company said its CL20010 leverages a...
Coriant announced a capacity upgrade to its 6350 Switch Node, which is a high-capacity multiservice transport platform designed for efficient transport of diverse traffic in metro-edge networking applications. This new...
Comtek, a pan-European aftermarket supplier to the telecoms industry, has acquired all the intellectual property rights (IPR) and trademarks belonging to Sorrento Networks. Financial terms were not disclosed. Prior to...
An industry consortium released a detailed specification (revision 1.0) for low cost 100G interfaces targeting data center applications. The CWDM4 architecture employs 4 lanes of 25 Gbps using Coarse Wavelength...
NTT has successfully tested 400 Gbps/channel-class digital coherent optical transmissions technology in conjunction with NEC and Fujitsu. The tests multiplexed up to 62 channels of 400 Gbps. This demonstrated fiber...
Ciena reported revenue of $603.6 million as compared to $538.4 million for its fiscal third quarter 2013, ended July 31. Net income (GAAP) was $16.2 million, or $0.15 per diluted...
Openreach, BT’s local access network business, has selected Ciena’s packet networking solutions to support the evolution of its Ethernet services. Openreach provides CPs with equal access to the wires and...
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