Nokia Siemens Networks has decided that optical networking isn’t central to its strategy after all. The troubled company has reached an agreement to sell its optical business to Marlin Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum. Last year Nokia Siemens said it would shed 17,000 jobs as part of drive to save €1 billion […]
Accelink Technologies has acquired the Danish planar lightwave circuit (PLC) company, Ignis Photonyx A/S. The Chinese optical component player has paid US$ 2.6 million (€2.0 million) for the company, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary. Accelink has also agreed to spend US$ 5.4 million (€4.2 million) to upgrade facilities and contribute to the […]
A new report by Dell’Oro Group says the total WDM market, comprising both metro and long-haul applications, is forecast to reach $8 billion for the full year 2012 – exceeding the telecom high point of 2000 for the first time. “It was the year 2000 when the WDM market peaked at $7.7 billion […]
One of the European Union’s most ambitious targets is to make sure that all its citizens can get access to superfast broadband at home by 2020. A new study by Point Topic shows that Europe is now halfway towards achieving that aim. The study has been produced for DG Connect, the department of […]
The optical industry loves a good debate about standards! The current generation of Ethernet standards was controversial, being the first where two standards – 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet – were developed simultaneously. The same debate about what the next generation of Ethernet should look like is now in full swing. In August, […]
ZTE claims to have set a new world record for 400G high-speed optical transmission based on single-carrier DWDM. The Chinese vendor presented a paper about its work at ECOC in Amsterdam. In the experiment, ZTE successfully transmitted 40 channels, each carrying 400Gbps, over 2800km of standard singlemode fibre arranged in 35 spans, with […]
Team members of MODE-GAP, an European collaborative R&D project that is part of the EU 7th Framework Programme on next-generation internet infrastructure, presented no fewer than three post-deadline papers at the ECOC 2012 conference in Amsterdam. Now half-way through its four year programme, the MODE-GAP project is exploring ways to increase the capacity […]
NeoPhotonics has announced a multiport mode coupling receiver (MCR) transceiver that enables operators to boost the efficiency of their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks by connecting up to four times as many homes to each existing OLT slot in a central office. One common approach to reduce the cost of FTTH installation is to keep […]