Applications and ResearchNew managed software defined WAN solution enables greater agility, flexibility for enterprises US mobile network provider Verizon has unveiled a new software-defined WAN service based on Cisco’s Intelligent WAN to help enterprises keep up with the continued growth of network traffic. IWAN technology harnesses the power of the Internet with the performance and reliability […]
Applications and ResearchAdvanced, scalable network drives economic development through improved access to Internet connectivity TCR Telecom in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has deployed a new municipal network with packet networking platforms from Ciena. The systems involved include Ciena’s 5150 and 5410 Service Aggregation Switches and OneControl Unified Management System. The network supports the revitalization of Rio’s […]
News and BusinessIBM Cloud IoT platform delivers device management, risk management and analytics capabilities IBM has expanded its Internet of Things (IoT) platform – called IBM IoT Foundation – through an integration with ARM, providing out-of-the-box connectivity with ARM’s mbedTM-enabled devices to analytics services. The companies say that this fusion will “allow huge quantities of data […]
News and BusinessHuawei announced its Gigaband development strategy at the Ultra-Broadband Forum 2015 in early September. The strategy represents Huawei’s commitment to opening ROADS (Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and Social) to build a better connected world by working with industry players and driving the ultra-broadband industry into the Gigaband era. The global ultra-broadband industry will enter […]
News and BusinessDelivers 12% adjusted operating margin and generates $117 million in cash from operations Ciena, the network specialist, has announced financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, 2015. For the fiscal third quarter 2015, the company reported revenue of $602.9 million as compared to $603.6 million for the fiscal third quarter 2014. […]
Technologies and ProductsInfinera has announced the rapid recovery of network capacity on the submarine optical fiber cable connecting Australia, Guam and Japan, managed by Australia Japan Cable (AJC). AJC recently experienced a network path failure following a subsea cable fault at a depth of 8,000m. The Infinera team and AJC rerouted over 400 gigabit per second of […]
Applications and ResearchThe European Commission has awarded the highest scientific excellence honour to the 5GNOW project, one of the first EU research projects aimed at advancing development of the next generation of mobile networks (5G) and strengthening European competitiveness. In the final project review in Brussels, the European Commission acknowledged a major impact, which the project had […]
Applications and ResearchMarket research firm HIS Infonetics, Cambridge, Ma, USA, has released its latest vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its Q2 2015 “Optical Network Hardware” report. According to the report, global optical network hardware revenue (WDM and SONET/SDH) grew 22% in 2Q15 from the previous quarter, but was flat from a year ago. Europe is […]
News and BusinessRecord revenues and non-GAAP EPS reflect “strong execution and momentum”, says company Cisco, a leading networking player, has reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year results for the period ended July 25, 2015. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.3 billion […]
News and Business* Revenue up by 15.3 percent to €17.4 billion; organic revenue growth of 5.7% * Adjusted EBITDA up by 13.5% to €5.0 billion, organic growth of 6.7% * Adjusted net profit up by almost 70% * 3.4 million fiber-optic-based lines in Germany * T-Mobile US increases adjusted EBITDA by 22.8% Deutsche Telekom has reported double-digit […]
News and BusinessInfinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, has announced that its offer to acquire Transmode has been accepted by shareholders representing approximately 95.8 percent of the outstanding shares and votes in Transmode. The transaction was fully completed on August 20, 2015. Infinera stated, “The combination of Infinera and Transmode brings together into one company a complementary […]
Applications and ResearchHuawei Marine Networks, has commenced marine installation of the Nigeria-Cameroon Submarine Cable System. The NCSCS is Cameroon’s first wholly-owned submarine cable with investment provided by the Cameroon Government. Spanning approximately 1,100 km, the NCSCS will directly link Kribi in Cameroon with Lagos in Nigeria, delivering 12.8 Tbps of capacity to broadband users in both countries […]
Applications and ResearchDelivering the first commercial high capacity 200G connectivity solution in EMEA euNetworks, a bandwidth infrastructure provider, has announced it is using Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, equipped with the new WaveLogic 3 Extreme coherent optics to deliver 100GE bandwidth services to customers. This utilises 200G per 50GHz dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) channels. euNetworks is a […]
News and BusinessInfinera Corporation, a developer of “intelligent” transport networks, has released financial results for the second quarter of 2015, which ended June 27, 2015. Revenue for the quarter was $207.3m compared to $186.9m in the first quarter of 2015 and $165.4m in the second quarter of 2014. Non-GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 47.4% compared […]
News and BusinessThe worldwide value of FSO link devices in stationary non-military/aerospace outdoor links was $37.2m in 2014, according to a new survey published by market analyst ElectroniCast, which is based in Aptos, Ca, USA. The global consumption of fixed-location (stationary) transmitter/receiver links used in non-military/aerospace FSO system equipment was $37.2m in 2014, up 11% from $33.5m […]
Applications and ResearchCloudWave Optics powers “new level” of flexibility, efficiency, and scalability Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled end-to-end transport networking solutions, has launched Coriant CloudWave Optics, a versatile suite of software-programmable photonic layer technologies that brings “a new level of flexibility, efficiency, and scalability to next-generation optical transmission networks”, the company claims. A key enabler of […]
News and BusinessInfinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced that IHS, formerly Infonetics Research, named Infinera as a leader among the top optical network hardware vendors in the recently published 2015 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard. In the report, Infinera is described as the “ne plus ultra of the rapidly growing Internet content provider and datacenter […]
Applications and ResearchField trial carried out on Apollo South system connecting France to the US demonstrated a capacity of 8Tbit/s per fiber pair Apollo and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, the undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, have demonstrated a capacity of 8 terabits-per-second of data per fiber pair – equivalent to approximately 1.25 million HDTV channels simultaneously streamed – […]
Technologies and ProductsMobile forensics unit streams packets to disk five times faster than previous generation Network Instruments, a JDSU Performance Management Solution, has launch its new GigaStor Portable 10Gb wire speed retrospective network analysis appliance. The new portable configuration utilizes solid state drive technology to stream traffic to disk at full line rate on full-duplex 10Gb links […]
Applications and ResearchInternational collaboration leverages SDN for advanced cyber-attack detection and defense The Secure Autonomous Response programmable networks project (SARNET), which includes Ciena, is exploring how software defined networking can help alleviate cyber-attacks and program networks to provide enhanced cyber-terror detection and defense. SARNET utilizes a multi-purpose, high-capacity research network and allows researchers to trial advanced network […]