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Infinera, Corsa Announce Demonstration of SDN-Enabled On-Demand 100G Packet Services

Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and Corsa Technology, provider of performance software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, announced a new demonstration of SDN-enabled on-demand 100 gigabits per second (100G) packet services.

17 Nov 2015

CommScope Adds Cross-Band PIM Testing Capability to Optical PIM Tester

CommScope continues to drive innovation in the wireless industry with its Optical PIM Tester, making it more capable of finding passive intermodulation (PIM), interference that can cripple the performance and throughput of modern networks.

12 Nov 2015

Infinera Announces Test Report Validating Infinera-Arista Joint Datacenter Interconnect Solution

Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced an independent test report validating an Infinera-Arista joint datacenter interconnect (DCI) solution. The Lippis Report, which provides independent testing of datacenter and enterprise networking solutions, issued a performance test report on the end-to-end DCI solution using Infinera's Cloud Xpress optical DCI transport platform and Arista's 7280 programmable switching platform.

From Infinera 6 Nov 2015

Ekinops to Provide 4Tbps Submarine Optical Ring Equipment to Linxtelecom

Linxtelecom, a Netherlands-based international service provider, has chosen Ekinops to provide equipment for a 4 Tbps (terabits per second) submarine optical ring linking the three major cities in the Baltic Sea.

5 Nov 2015

CenturyLink Fiber Connectivity Now at Five Additional CyrusOne Data Centers

CenturyLink, Inc. and CyrusOne today announced new CenturyLink fiber connectivity at five additional CyrusOne data centers. With this fiber network expansion, there are now 12 CyrusOne U.S. data center locations directly connected to CenturyLink's robust 250,000-route-mile U.S. fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile international transport network.

31 Oct 2015

Luna Innovations’ Picometrix Division Receives $7 Million Purchase Order for 100G ICRs

Luna Innovations Incorporated today announced that its Picometrix division recently received a $7 million purchase order for its industry-leading 100G integrated coherent receivers (ICR). The ICR is critical to enable high-speed optical communication in long haul networks.

30 Oct 2015

II-VI Incorporated Launches Advanced Optical Channel Monitor Platform

II-VI Incorporated, a leading provider of solutions for next generation optical networks, today announced the commercial availability of the OCM 2580, a new optical channel monitor platform with advanced features designed for next-generation flexible-bandwidth optical network systems.

28 Oct 2015

Twisting' Data Could Increase Data Speeds of Optical Fibers

In the latest advance to boost the speed of the Internet, a research team including, the City College of New York, University of Southern California, University of Glasgow, and Corning Incorporated, has demonstrated a way to increase the data speeds of optical fibers - considered the Internet's backbone.

19 Oct 2015

ZTE and Reliance Communications India Enter New 100G Optical Transportation Network Contract

ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has signed a new 100G optical transportation network (OTN) contract with Reliance Communications India.

14 Oct 2015

ADVA Optical Networking, BT Demonstrate Future of NFV-Enabled Managed Services

ADVA Optical Networking today launched a joint demonstration with BT that reveals the future of managed services built upon network functions virtualization (NFV).

12 Oct 2015