Optical Networks/WDM back issues from June 2008:
OIF to tackle 100G long-haul DWDM.(TECHNOLOGY)
Jun 01, 2008 ... The Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF's) Physical and Link Layer Working Group has opened a new work project to address 100G long-haul DWDM. According to Ciena's Joe Berthold, former president of the OIF, the project will aim to speed implementation of the 100G ...
American Fiber Systems selects Ciena for network upgrades in Atlanta.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... American Fiber Systems (AFS), an optical fiber network provider to carriers and large enterprises, and Ciena Corporation announced a new partnership to deploy Ciena's advanced, multiservice metro/regional WDM platform across multiple AFS networks in Atlanta, Alpharetta, and Marietta, ...
Mzima deploys Ciena's CN 5060 platform across global network.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Ciena Corporation announced that Los Angeles-based Mzima Networks, a high-performance network service provider, has implemented Ciena's CN 5060 Multiservice Carrier Ethernet Platform across its North American and European networks. Mzima deployed the CN 5060 to support a new multiprotocol ...
SAVVIS turns to Infinera for network expansion.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Infinera says it has completed a high-bandwidth, regional optical network in California for SAVVIS Inc., a provider of IT infrastructure services for business applications, a network that will augment its Application Transport Network (ATN) in California. Based in St. Louis, ...
Huawei deploys 1,141km 40Gbps commercial network.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Huawei Technologies announced that it has successfully deployed what it claims is the industry's longest 40G commercial transport network. Built for TransTeleCom (TTC), a top-three fixed telecom carrier in Russia, the 1,141km network connects Moscow and St. Petersburg and requires no ...
Turk Telecom picks Alcatel-Lucent.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Alcatel-Lucent and Turk TelekomA.S., the fixed telecom operator in Turkey, have further strengthened their long-lasting cooperation with the signature of a EUR21.6 million contract to deploy an optical network using an intelligent control plane. Once completed, this will be the first ...
Softbank Telecom selects MRV Fiber Driver.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Japanese telecommunications service provider Softbank Telecom Corp. has chosen MRV Communications' Fiber Driver optical multiservice platform as the basis for its countrywide ATM access network and has completed deployment across the country. Softbank Telecom says it built the ...
Telx deploys Ciena's CN 4200 platform.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Interconnectivity provider Telx has deployed Ciena Corp.'s CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform in two key metro markets: Dallas and New York. This equipment is used as part of the Telx Metro Cross Connect service to facilitate interconnections between dual ColoXchange ...
ECI Telecom announced contract wins.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... ECI Telecom has announced a pair of contract wins for its XDM product line: one in Russia, the other in the Dominican Republic. In the first deal, Golden Telecom Inc., part of the VimpelCom Group, has selected ECI Telecom's XDM All-Range ROADM and Multi-Service Transport ...
Software helps hellas online build 450km fiber network in Athens.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Bentley Systems Inc. says that Attica Telecom, a telecom provider recently acquired by Greek carrier hellas online, has selected and deployed Bentley's communications software to design and build a 450km fiber network in Athens and other major cities in Greece, including Thessaloniki. ...
P&TLuxembourg deploys ADVA Optical Networking's SFP 150.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... P&TLuxembourg, a fixed and mobile telephone operator in Luxembourg, has deployed ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 150 to offer intelligent Ethernet services to enterprise customers. Connecting major cities throughout the country, P&TLuxembourg's new network is built on a foundation of IP over ...
Fiberail continues network expansion with Alcatel-Lucent.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Fiberail Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian fiber-optic network operator, and Alcatel-Lucent announced the expansion of Fiberail's existing network. Based on Alcatel-Lucent's optical technology, the network will provide Fiberail with enhanced capacity, flexibility, and scalability to address the ...
ADVA heads metro-focused group in European public/private research initiative.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... ADVA Optical Networking announced that the company is heading a group of university and enterprise partners in developing standards-based, carrier-class metropolitan Ethernet transport networks that cost-effectively deliver data transport speeds of 100Gbps. The metro-focused ...
China Telecom to complete TPE in Q3.(SUBMARINE CABLES)
Jun 01, 2008 ... China Telecom, Asia's largest fixed-line telecommunications company, working with four other TPE Consortium team members, is to complete the project in Q3. China Telecom Americas, the largest international subsidiary of China Telecom Limited, announced the presale of the ...
PLDT to launch $550 million Asia-America fiber cable network.(SUBMARINE CABLES)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Dominant carrier Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) said it will soon launch the Philippine leg of a $550 million fiber cable network that will connect the country to other Asian countries and parts of the United States. The launching ceremonies will be held in the ...
Transmode launches 4G CWDM/DWDM Multi-Service Muxponder.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Transmode announced the availability of what it claims is the industry's first 4Gbps CWDM/DWDM Multi-service Muxponder targeted for mobile backhaul and other next-generation network (NGN) migration applications. The new Multi-Service Muxponder (MS-MXP) allows operators to deploy ...
Fujitsu adds connection-oriented Ethernet to P-ONPs.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Fujitsu Network Communications announced IEEE standard Provider Backbone Bridging with Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) support for its newly announced FLASHWAVE CDS and FLASHWAVE 9500 packet optical networking platforms. "Service providers are looking for a mix of standards-based ...
Ceterus Networks launches all-optical carrier-class Ethernet transport offering.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Ceterus Networks has launched an all-optical offering as part of its Universal Transport System (UTS) family of carrier-class native Ethernet products. The new UTS4000 series is designed to offer a purpose-built approach for the transport of native Ethernet traffic with the same level of ...
CoreOptics introduces 40G SerDes.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... CoreOptics Inc. announced availability of a 40Gbps serializer/deserializer chipset. The chipset is designed to provide a high level of integration while minimizing power dissipation and footprint. In addition, the implementation of adaptive algorithms, embedded microcontrollers, and ...
Infinera puts new PICs into line.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Infinera has unveiled its second generation in-line platform, the ILS2. Thanks to a pair of new passive photonic integrated circuits (PICs), the system enables carriers using Infinera's Digital Transport Network (DTN) platform to set the stage for increased capacity, data rates, and reach ....
Hybrid optical integration project to develop modules for optical networks.(PARTNERSHIP)
Jun 01, 2008 ... The Centre for Integrated Photonics announced its participation in the new EU FP7 APACHE project. The three-year research project will be partly funded by the EU, which is contributing EUR3 million, and will plug a major gap in the optical module roadmap: the lack of cost-effective, ...
GIMV plans purchase of Nokia Siemens Networks' OTN (Open Transport Network) business.(MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Nokia Siemens Networks and GIMV, a Belgian investment company specializing in private equity and venture capital, are planning to conclude an asset sale and transfer agreement pertaining to Nokia Siemens Networks' entire Open Transport Network (OTN) team during the second quarter of 2008 ....
CIR issues white paper on 'The Evolution of Technologies for Mass Market Optical Networking'.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)
Jun 01, 2008 ... CIR, an industry analyst firm, announced the release of a white paper that looks at key technology trends driving the market for optical components in data communications networks. The information in the paper was drawn from a soon-to-be-released report from CIR. The paper can be accessed ...
Infonetics: WDM spending in North America, CALA heats up.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports that sales of worldwide optical network hardware were down 10 percent sequentially in 1Q08 to $3.5 billion, due to normal seasonal downturns in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA markets. According to Infonetics' report, ...
DWDM/CWDM and conventional WDM filter module market forecast.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)(Industry overview)
Jun 01, 2008 ... ElectroniCast Consultants, a market and technology forecast consultancy addressing the fiber-optic communications industry, announced the release of a new market forecast and analysis of the global market consumption and technology trends of DWDM, CWDM, and conventional WDM filter modules ....
Photonic switch and switch matrices global market forecast.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)(Industry overview)
Jun 01, 2008 ... ElectroniCast Consultants, a market and technology forecast consultancy addressing the fiber-optic components communications industry, announced the release of a new market forecast and analysis of the global market consumption and technology trends of photonic switch matrix systems and ...