News and BusinessTelia Carrier has added another new diverse and latency-optimised DWDM route in the U.S., between Chicago and Denver via Des Moines, IA and Omaha, NE. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing organic buildout of its North American network and commitment to provide customers both direct and diverse route options. The project also includes […]
News and BusinessSubmarine optical fibre management company Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fibre optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, announces successful completion of owner’s representation on the CrossChannel Fibre project marine route survey on behalf of project developer Crosslake Fibre. The survey, conducted by EGS, is a major construction milestone for the first fibre optic submarine […]
News and BusinessBlue Planet, a division of Ciena, is providing BT with intelligent automation software as part of the global service provider’s drive to deliver market-leading user experience for its multinational enterprise customers. The software will help BT provide its customers with quicker and more reliable access to cloud-based collaboration tools, such as file sharing and messaging […]
News and BusinessInfinera has joined the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum, a consortium formed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Intel Corporation, and Sony Corporation to collaborate on innovations to enable next-generation networks in key areas such as photonics, computation, and network infrastructure. Infinera will play a pivotal role in contributing to IOWN […]
News and BusinessCiena and NTT Com will deploy a single-wave 800G line speed solution for Datacentre Interconnect (DCI) using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme® optical platform, it has been announced. To accommodate the rapid growth of 5G, gaming and cloud services, NTT Com will upgrade its DCI network to be more programmable, resilient and high-capacity. “Since its inception, […]
Applications and ResearchSilicon photonics researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have demonstrated the first all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gbps and beyond without the use of digital signal processing. The optical modulator almost doubles the maximum data rate of current state-of-the-art devices, demonstrating the potential for low power low-cost all-silicon solutions that avoid complicating […]
News and BusinessHitachi High-Tech Corporation (HHT) has announced it has acquired VLC Photonics S.L. as a wholly-owned subsidiary, which will continue to provide Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) engineering services as part of the Company’s broader offering. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In the optical communications market, higher speeds and increased bandwidth are required to […]
Technologies and ProductsSmartoptics has added the DCP-R family of DWDM ROADMs to its portfolio of open line systems. The ROADMS target advanced and reconfigurable optical ring and mesh network applications. The ROADMs will accommodate PAM4 and 400ZR coherent modulation formats and support such protocols as Ethernet and Fibre Channel. The DCP-R family launches with two versions of […]