Newsletter - 26 August Archives - Optical Connections News

News and Business

Coherent Solutions, SmarTest Electronics partner for 400G transceiver test market

By Peter Dykes

Test and measurement technology companies Coherent Solutions and SmarTest Electronics, have announced an exclusive partnership and supply agreement to develop integrated electro-optical test and measurement solutions for high volume 400G transceiver testing. The partnership gives Coherent Solutions exclusive access to SmarTest’s next-generation Bit Error Rate Testers (BERT) and Pulse Pattern Generators (PPG) which will initially […]

News and Business

Zayo boosts IP Transit capacity in key metro markets

By Peter Dykes

Zayo Group Holdings, which operates a 133,000-mile fibre network, has announced a significant expansion to its IP Transit capacity in key metro markets across the United States. Based on increased demand to 100G ports, Zayo recently completed upgrades to support 100G IP Transit in Phoenix, San Jose and Denver. These three metro areas join Atlanta, […]

News and Business

Construction to begin on MIST subsea cable

By Peter Dykes

Orient Link (OLL) and NEC have signed an agreement to begin work on the 8,100-km MIST submarine cable system which will link Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. The network will have a design capacity of more than 216 Tbps and is scheduled for completion in 3Q22. OLL is a strategic joint venture company led […]

300mm silicon wafer exposed on FLX-1200 multi-beam tool at 5kV on N40 BEOL stack.

News and Business

CompoundTek, STAr team for high-volume SiPh wafer test

By Peter Dykes

Global foundry services provider CompoundTek and test solutions company STAr Technologies have formed a strategic collaboration to develop standards and solutions for cost-effective high-volume SiPh Wafer Test. Addressing the growing need for consistency and reliability across all applications of SiPh technology, the SiPh Wafer Test aims to spearhead the development of more standard processes and […]

We will provide key interconnection points for the Nordics that will help facilitate the movement of global internet traffic in and out of the region. Ciena’s GeoMesh and optical innovations will give Eastern Light a new approach to support a smarter, faster and more adaptive network.

News and Business

NEXTDC, Infonas, tap Ciena for network management

By Peter Dykes

Australian Data Centre-as-a-Service provider NEXTDC Limited, is to deploy Ciena’s Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) platform. NEXTDC will connect its data centres and provide cloud and computing services to support its customers located across the company’s growing footprint in Australia. With Ciena’s Waveserver, leading cloud, internet content and data centre providers like NEXTDC can quickly scale […]

Technologies and Products

SFP-DD MSA releases updated 4.1 hardware specification

By Peter Dykes

The Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (SFP-DD) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) Group has released its updated 4.1 hardware specification and drawings for the SFP-DD pluggable interface designed to enable high-speed 100+ Gbps, high-density networking equipment. The SFP-DD form factor uses 2-lane pluggable modules, is backward compatible with SFP+ and offers improved host to module management […]

News and Business

NBI counters FTTH competition with 500Mbps speed hike

By Peter Dykes

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the National Broadband Plan (NBP) on behalf of the Government, has announced that the minimum download speed for its standard products will increase from 150Mb to 500Mbps. According to a press report in The Irish Independent the speed increase could be in response to a drop in high-end […]

Applications and Research

UCL engineers set new world record internet speed at 178Tbps

By Peter Dykes

The world’s fastest data transmission speed has been achieved by University College London (UCL) researchers led by Dr Lidia Galdino, of UCL’s Electronic & Electrical Engineering. Working with Xtera and KDDI Research, the research team achieved a data transmission speed of 178Tbps, a speed at which it would be possible to download the entire Netflix […]

Technologies and Products

Transition Networks debuts PCIe 10G ethernet fibre NIC

By Peter Dykes

Transition Networks has released its PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Network Interface Card (NIC) (N-TGE-SFP-02), a PCIe 3.0 x8 bus card supporting faster transfer speeds of up to eight Giga Transfers per second (GTps) for servers or high-powered work stations. Transition says the NIC supports server virtualisation a process that uses software to consolidate data […]