China Telecom Tests 100G DWDM with Huawei and Corning
China Telecom, Huawei, and Corning completed a 100G WDM ultra long haul transmission test. The test, which set a new ...
Tag: Optical
10X10 MSA Targets Low-Cost 100 Gbps Transceivers
A new 10x10 Multi-Source Agreement industry group has been formed to establish compatible sources of low-cost, low-power, pluggable 100G optical ...
IBM Advances its CMOS Nanophotonics
IBM announced significant advances in its path to integrate electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon. The ...
OIF Approves Security Agreement
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) approved a new Implementation Agreement (IA) for securing the control plane protocols specified in the ...
Huawei to Build 80 X 40G National Backbone for China Mobile
Huawei confirmed a contract to build an 80×40G WDM national backbone network for China Mobile. Upon its completion, the network ...
Portugal Telecom Tests 100 Gbps with Alcatel-Lucent
Portugal Telecom has tested a 100 Gbps connection, between Lisbon and Oporto, demonstrating end-to-end optical/IP 100G connectivity across an existing ...
Kotura Demos Ultrafast Silicon Photonics Switch
Kotura demonstrated an ultrafast, submilliwatt, broadband 2 x 2 optical switch. The device boasts switching speeds of 6 ns and ...
Dell'Oro: Optical Transport Market Returns to Positive Year-Over-Year Growth
Worldwide optical market revenues grew 3 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, reversing the trend of revenue declines that started ...
Verizon Deploys GPON to the Desktop for Russell Investments
Verizon Business has wired the new global headquarters for Russell Investments using GPON to the desktop. Compared with traditional switched ...
Cisco Debuts Carrier Packet Transport with MPLS-TP
Cisco introduced its Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) System -- a metro access aggregation platform that aims to integrate the capabilities ...
NTT Develops GMPLS Virtual IP-Optical Architecture
NTT is developing an IP-optical virtual network architecture to enable the efficient sharing of infrastructure by multiple service providers. With ...
Internet2 Readies its 100G Ethernet Research Network
Internet2 is ready to begin deploying its new, nationwide 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) network to meet the current and future ...
ADVA Optical Lowers Latency with Optimized Raman Amplifier
ADVA Optical Networking is offering an latency-optimized Raman amplifier for its flagship FSP 3000 platform. The new amplifier implements counter ...
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