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Technologies and Products

Australia-Japan Cable completes major upgrade to submarine cable system with Infinera subsea solution

By Matthew Peach

Infinera, a developer of intelligent transport networks, has announced the completion of a major upgrade to Australia-Japan Cable’s (AJC) submarine cable system, which connects Australia, Guam and Japan. AJC has been able to triple lit capacity on this 12,700-kilometer subsea cable system by upgrading the Infinera DTN-X network with Infinera’s fourth generation optical engine ICE4. […]

Applications and Research

nbn and Adtran to deliver ultra-fast broadband speeds across Australia

By Matthew Peach

Next-generation Gfast technology to be launched in 2018. Adtran, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, has announced it is working with Australian company nbn (the company building Australia’s broadband network) to advance high-speed broadband access to Australian consumers. The next-generation broadband technology, Gfast, will be launched on the nbn broadband access network in 2018, […]

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Guest Blog

The QSFP28 100G FR single laser, a competitor to the CWDM4?

Thanks to the 400G technology, a new QSFP28 100G module type is coming. The QSFP28 100GBASE-FR, also called QSFP28 100G single lambda, will be a single laser and a single receiver of 100Gbps instead of being 4x25Gbps (4x lasers and 4x receivers).