News and BusinessAccording to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, total global revenue for the Broadband Access equipment market increased to US$16.3 billion in 2021, up 12 percent year-over-year. Dell’Oro’s 4Q 2021 Broadband Access and Home Networking quarterly report says that growth came once again from spending on both PON infrastructure and fixed wireless CPE. “2021 […]
News and BusinessArelion, formerly known as Telia Carrier, has completed its latest backbone route expansion between Norway and continental Europe. The company was awarded the contract to build a new subterranean Internet route for Norway by the Norwegian Communications Authority in July 2020. The project goal was to provide greater resilience in the event a serious incident […]
Technologies and ProductsIn cooperation with its partners, Orange has demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability of 400 Gbps optical modules over several network segments. The results were presented in a post-deadline session at OFC. The trial was performed at the Orange Labs on a link composed of 3 interconnected segments: a metropolitan link of 125 km with an optical module […]
News and BusinessFujitsu Network Communications, Inc. says US-based fibre infrastructure services provider FiberLight, LLC, has again selected the modular Fujitsu 1FINITY™ platform to enhance its high-bandwidth fibre network. Upgrades include deployment of 1FINITY T700 transport blades and L130/ L140 ROADM blades to improve performance, efficiency and speeds up to 400G. The latest 1FINITY innovation, the T700 transport […]
News and BusinessRanovus and TE Connectivity are collaborating to deliver what the companies claim is the world’s first CPO platform based on RANOVUS’ Odin™ 800Gbps Analog-Drive CPO 2.0 architecture with TE’s CPx fine pitch socket interposer technology. The CPO implementation, the result of a three-year development cooperation between RANOVUS and TE, showcases a fully operational co-packaged optical […]
Technologies and ProductsVIAVI has introduced a 400G module for its OneAdvisor 800 range of field testers, to provide advanced 400G transport test and maintenance functionality for business service and network core technicians working in the field. Combining its transmission protocol and fibre network modularity, the OneAdvisor 800 offers testing performance for technicians who must carry their gear […]
News and BusinessEFFECT Photonics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire coherent optical DSP and forward error correction (FEC) technology as well as a highly experienced engineering team from global communications company, Viasat Inc. Viasat is a long-established player in DSP and FEC technologies, with eight generations of design IP. EFFECT Photonics has also secured an additional […]
Technologies and ProductsBuilding on the success of the AC1200 and the Pico DSP, Acacia has launched its Coherent Interconnect Module 8 (CIM 8), based on its newest DSP technology, the 8th generation Jannu 5nm CMOS DSP, which includes second generation 3D Shaping and continuous baud rate adjustment of up to 140Gbaud. The new module is designed to […]