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Windstream Offers Expanded Wavelength Division Multiplexing Service

Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, announced an expanded Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) – or "Wave" – service offering to meet enterprise customers demand for dedicated, high bandwidth data center connectivity solutions. The announcement is one of a series highlighting Windstream's fiber-based, high-bandwidth service expansion following successful network expansion and modernization efforts this year.

10 Dec 2015

Citynet Extends Network with MRV Communications Optical Transport Solutions

MRV Communications, Inc., a global provider of innovative packet and optical solutions, announces an expansion of its longstanding partnership with Citynet, a regional carrier network in Austria.

8 Dec 2015

ADVA Optical Networking Announces Acquisition of mic AG's Engineering Division

ADVA Optical Networking announced today that is has acquired an engineering division from technology incubator, mic AG. The talented team of engineers is specifically focused on the development of optical monitoring technology in fiber networks. Their skills will be key for ADVA Optical Networking as it continues to rapidly advance its popular ADVA FSP 3000 Access Link Monitoring (ALM) product.

28 Nov 2015

TE Connectivity Wins R&D 100 Award for 25G Active Optics

TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, today announced that its 25-Gigabit (25G) active optics featuring Coolbit optical engines have received an R&D 100 Award. Sponsored by R&D Magazine, the R&D 100 awards honor outstanding projects and developments from global research and development teams. Since 1959, R&D Magazine has served research scientists, engineers and technical staff members at government, academic and industrial laboratories around the world.

26 Nov 2015

Infinera, EBlink Provide Mobile Fronthaul Networking Services for Orange's Network

Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and EBlink, pioneer of wireless fronthaul technology, announced a partnership to deliver both fiber and wireless based solutions and to provide an end-to-end fronthaul architecture. In a live field trial with Orange, the Infinera TM-Series and EBlink's FrontLink™ solutions delivered mobile fronthaul networking services for Orange's 4G network in western France, interconnecting baseband units (BBU) and remote radio heads (RRH) from several of Orange's Radio Access Network (RAN) vendors.

23 Nov 2015

Bell Labs’ Real-Time Space-Division Multiplexed Optical Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output System Could Increase Network Capacities

Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent has made a breakthrough in its ambition to shatter the capacity limits of optical networks as they strive to meet the explosion in traffic expected from 5G and the Internet of Things.

21 Nov 2015

Infinera Achieves MEF 100G Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification for PXM Switching Module

Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced that it is in the first tranche of packet-optical transport network vendors to complete the MEF 100 gigabit (100G) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) certification program. This achievement validates Infinera as a global packet-optical transport leader that can deliver differentiated services with scalability, flexibility and programmability.

20 Nov 2015

Coriant Introduces Pluggable Optical Layer for Flexible, High-Speed Metro Optical Networks

Coriant, a proven supplier of innovative networking solutions to leading network operators in over 100 countries, today launched the Coriant® Pluggable Optical Layer, an innovative and cost-saving approach to building out flexible, high-speed metro optical networks to meet a broad range of fixed and mobile applications.

18 Nov 2015

Bandwidth-Tunable Filter on a Silicon Chip Demonstrates Widest Tuning Span

The amount of data that flows over the internet has exploded in the last decade. Whether people are watching cat videos, streaming movies, or uploading vacation photos to social media sites, they are demanding ever higher performance from the optical networks that are the physical foundation of the World Wide Web.

18 Nov 2015