News and BusinessAfrican operator CSquared is working with Adtran to build a new backbone network using the Adtran FSP 3000 solution (pictured) and ALM fibre monitoring platform. Adtran’s solution enables CSquared to rapidly deploy an open-access 350km backbone connecting Liberia to Guinea and the Ivory Coast. With a mission to address Africa’s lack of robust, high-capacity infrastructure, […]
Technologies and ProductsEdgecore Networks, has announced a new partnership with Exaware and FONEX Data Systems, Inc. to provide OLT access routers to CSPs using transceivers from Tibit Communications. By using a pluggable Tibit transceiver to provide networking services in fibre-to-the-curb (FTTx) applications, CSPs reduce infrastructure costs by as much as half that of traditional equipment. The Tibit […]
News and BusinessThe composition of pluggable optics is changing, according to LightCounting’s nineth edition of its Silicon Photonics report which includes a new market forecast for linear drive pluggable and co-packaged optics. LightCounting says it expects that market share of transceivers using SiP-based optical modulators will increase from 24% in 2022 to 44% by 2028. It also […]
News and BusinessAccording to the Optical Transport Quarterly Report, recently published by the Dell’Oro Group, optical transport equipment revenue grew 8% year-over-year in 1Q 2023. The analyst says the growth is due to an easing of component supply difficulties, an issue highlighted in its November 2022 report. “For a second consecutive quarter, the Optical Transport equipment […]
News and BusinessInfinera says it has successfully completed a live network trial with Poland’s Hawe Telekom using Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent solution. In the trial, Infinera delivered 600G, 700G, and 800G transmissions on Hawe Telekom’s national and international routes over the existing optical line system. The trial, conducted on Hawe Telekom’s Warsaw-Poznan-Frankfurt route, means Hawe Telekom will […]
Technologies and ProductsPrysmian Group, has launched Ecoslim™, a sustainable telecommunication system using Sirocco HD and Sirocco Extreme (XT) optical cables which are available with up to 864 optical fibres. Sirocco HD cables are made with 50% less plastics and up to 25% smaller in diameter, in line with the Group’s commitment to increase the amount of recycled […]
News and BusinessThe third submarine cable system between Iceland and the Republic of Ireland has gone live using Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme, according to Farice, the main provider of international capacity from Iceland to mainland Europe. IRIS connects southwest Iceland to Galway, Ireland, with onward connectivity to the UK, Denmark, […]
Technologies and ProductsHarmonic has expanded its fibre broadband portfolio with the new Wharf hardened switch for high-density remote optical line termination (R-OLT) applications (pictured). The company says the Wharf switch delivers ultra-fast broadband speeds to high-density service areas and accelerates time to market of XGS-PON or 10G-EPON fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services alongside 25/40/100G business-class services from outdoor cabinetry. […]
Technologies and ProductsCommScope has launched HomeVantage™, a line of fibre gateways and optical network units (ONUs). The company says the portfolio expansion allows service providers to deliver 2.5Gbps broadband speed of GPON around the home. With offerings that include both one device and two-device solutions, the gateways enable delivery of voice-over-IP (VoIP), data, and broadcast-quality streaming video […]
News and BusinessSingapore-based SiPh foundry service provider CompoundTek Pte.Ltd, has formed a strategic collaboration with Ningbo Hyper-silicon Technology Co.Ltd, a China-based transceiver solution provider for data centres, to establish a cost-effective high-volume SiPh Wafer Edge Coupling Test. The partnership leverages CompoundTek’s existing wafer test solutions portfolio and aims to address the growing need for cost-effective testing capabilities […]
News and BusinessNokia is to deploy the first 10G fibre broadband network in Vietnam with operator Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT). The initial rollout will connect 10,000 homes and businesses in the eight largest provinces of the country. Nokia is providing fibre access nodes for the operator’s exchanges and fibre modems for end users’ premises. Nokia says […]
News and BusinessLiquid Dataport, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg. The new route, including a fibre link across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between Goma and Kananga, provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud resources, […]
News and BusinessGreat Plains Communications (GPC), a Midwestern U.S. telecommunications provider which operates a 16,500+ mile fibre network covering 13 states, is deploying Ciena’s Coherent Routing solution and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) technology. Ciena says the deployment will increase GPC’s network capacity, reliability, and resiliency to adapt to the continually increasing bandwidth needs of business, carrier, and […]
Technologies and ProductsNetherlands-based chemicals firm SABIC, has collaborated with China’s Blovelight, Ltd., to develop what it claims is one of the first integrated, single-mode fibre optic lens arrays for WDM modules. The design uses SABIC’s ULTEM™ resin, a near-infrared transparent, high-heat polyetherimide (PEI) material, to mould an integrated connector (previously metal) and receiving lens array (previously glass) and […]
News and BusinessAustralian fibre and network solutions provider Vocus, has completed the first international fibre-optic cable connection into Darwin, in Australia’s Northern Territory. The company says the new AU$100 million submarine fibre cable will position Darwin as a key digital hub for the Asia Pacific region, and will be connected to a new data centre to be […]
Technologies and ProductsEXFO has launched two new test sets for testing high-volume fibres in optical networks, delivering what the company claims is the fastest multi-fibre push-on (MPO) certification capability in the industry. Apart from the new PXM and LXM optical loss test set (OLTS) which support multimode fibres, EXFO has added new certification features to its current […]
News and BusinessInfinera says it has successfully completed the industry’s first testing of point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceiver technology in Japan in collaboration with Sumitomo Electric. The testing showcased multiple optical transmission demonstrations and the role that XR optics technology can play in helping network operators in Japan cost-effectively keep pace with relentless bandwidth growth driven by 5G, […]
News and BusinessInfinera says it has successfully completed a simulated intercity network trial for Telstra InfraCo’s intercity fibre project in Australia, delivering 61.3 Tbps of unregenerated data transmission capacity on a fibre pair over the equivalent of 1,240 route kilometers between Melbourne and Sydney. The network trial was implemented using Infinera’s 800G-capable ICE6 coherent solution and Corning […]
Technologies and ProductsSticklers™ is launching its Pro 360™ Touchless Cleaner at AngaCom. The device uses a non-flammable cleaning fluid classified as non-hazardous and is non-regulated for transport by sea, ground and air. Packaged in spill proof cannisters to guarantee solvent purity, each canister cleans over 2000 connectors. The cleaning fluid cartridge contains less than 100ml of fluid […]
News and BusinessIndustry analyst firm CIR, predicts that the co-packaged optics modules market will reach US$5.5 billion in 2027, including NPO products, in its latest report Markets for Co-Packaged Optics 2023-2028. CIR sees data centres generating US$19 plus billion revenues of aggregate spending on CPO over the 2023-2028 period. CIR believes that there will be significant deployment […]