News and BusinessNokia today announced that it has been selected by Austrian utility and infrastructure company, Energie AG Oberösterreich, to build an optical transport network across 18 sites in Upper Austria. Energie AG will use the network to backhaul traffic from FTTH nodes in regional sites to two central sites. Deployment is already underway. Nokia’s portfolio of […]
News and BusinessNokia has signed a frame agreement with Eurofiber Group, for a multi-country DWDM roll out, datacenter switching and multiple other areas to increase Eurofiber Open Network footprint. The agreement, covers all Eurofiber affiliates. Within Eurofiber France, first optical networks are already under deployment in the south and north of the country. Next to France, Nokia […]
News and BusinessNokia has made a strategic alliance with Furukawa Electric LatAm, the leading company in network cabling, to accelerate optical LAN deployments in Latin America. Furukawa Electric LatAm is a market leader for copper cables and optic fibre in Latin America. With this agreement, Furukawa Electric LatAm will incorporate Nokia’s optical networking equipment into its Laserway […]
News and BusinessNokia has successfully tested a 600Gbps line rate on Telekom Serbia and MTEL’s optical transport network over a distance of 600km between Banja Luka and Belgrade. The test utilised Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch (pictured), powered by its PSE-Vs chipset, and laid the foundation for future growth to meet the needs of low latency, high-capacity […]
Technologies and ProductsKeysight Technologies, Inc. has collaborated with Nokia to successfully demonstrate the first public 800GbE test to validate the readiness of next-generation optics for service providers and network operators. The readiness testing was conducted at Nokia’s private SReXperts customer event in Madrid in June 2022, and included Keysight’s AresONE 800GBE Layer 1-3 800GbE line rate test […]
Technologies and ProductsIn an extension of the companies’ long-term strategic relationship, Nokia says BT will test its FP5 network processing silicon, including its 800G interfaces. BT operates the largest IP network in the UK with peak rates above 25Tbps, powered by Nokia’s 77xx family of routers. With this trial, says BT, it will be the first in […]
News and BusinessNokia say it is deploying a passive optical LAN (POL) solution for Orange over 20 sites in France, including the new Orange Headquarters, Bridge, in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris. The POL solution replaces the existing copper-based LAN, connecting more than 5,000 end points including Wi-Fi and hard-wired terminals. The optical LAN delivers greater efficiencies and offers […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia’s research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, has debuted what it says is the first 100Gbps broadband technology in the US at Fiber Connect 2022, Nashville, Tennessee. The prototype delivers 100Gbps speeds in downstream on a single PON wavelength, avoiding the need to combine multiple wavelengths carrying lower speeds. The prototype parameters mimic real-world conditions including […]
News and BusinessNokia says Indian operator Vodafone Idea (Vi) will use its DWDM solution in the access layer to upgrade its network to 5G for meeting future service capacity and reliability needs. The new compact and scalable DWDM solution will allow Vi to optimise fibre resources while ensuring 100G capacity with future upgrade capability of the network […]
News and BusinessNokia says it will provide its data centre switching solutions for Microsoft’s data centre facilities to support the bandwidth growth to Microsoft Azure as part of a multi-faceted deal. The deal expands the long-standing relationship between the companies, who have been working together to bring massively scaled, agile and highly resilient networking to the data […]
News and BusinessNokia says the Swiss energy services company, Energie Wasser Luzern (EWL), has deployed its next-generation PON fibre solution. Nokia is replacing the legacy network with the latest fibre access technology, providing a single network for business and residential customers, as well as for smart metering services. EWL selected the solution in collaboration with its subsidiary […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia and Rakuten Mobile say they have demonstrated the first live 1 Tbps per channel transmission over Rakuten Mobile’s commercial DWDM network, a speed increase of 500% on Rakuten Mobile’s existing network running at 200 Gbps. The trial took place over two days in January 2022 and connected data centres located 135 km apart in […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia today announced it will showcase Coherent Routing, IP-optical solution at OFC. The company also announced a wide range of upgrades for its next- generation packet optical transport network (P-OTN) solutions for CSPs offering wholesale services. Coherent Routing The Coherent Routing demo will highlight the ability of IP routers to connect directly […]
News and BusinessNokia says it has successfully completed a network trial with GlobalConnect using the Nokia PSE-V fifth generation super coherent optics (PSE-Vs). The trial demonstrated 600G transmission over a live long-haul network link of GlobalConnect Group’s GO-COLOR network. This trial validates GlobalConnect’s ability to increase its optical network capacity in support of high-capacity data center interconnect […]
News and BusinessNokia says it will supply Portuguese operator IP Telecom with optical networking equipment to secure the operator’s cloud connectivity between Lisbon, Porto and Viseu using Nokia’s encrypted 100Gbps optical data centre interconnect (DCI) solution. The Nokia solution includes the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (pictured) and 1830 Photonic Service Interconnect – Modular (PSI-M) optical transport platforms […]
News and BusinessNokia has been chosen by Beijing-based cloud computing service provider Capital Online, to upgrade its IP backbone network to complete the company’s Network 2.0 plan. Under the agreement, Capital Online will deploy the Nokia 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7250 IXR interconnect router platforms to support Capital Online’s Network 2.0 plan. This entails that the […]
News and BusinessNokia has been selected by WINDTRE in Italy to deploy a new, high performance optical backbone. At the heart of WINDTRE’s nationwide network infrastructure, the photonic backbone will bear traffic from the entire country, addressing the growing demand for ultra-fast connectivity as well as delivering high-capacity services to business customers. The DWDM solution will leverage […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia and CityFibre have trialled the UK’s first 25G PON network to support 5G transport. The digital campus testbed was set up at the University of Glasgow with three 5G sites backhauled to the core. In addition to carrying 5G transport on 25G PON, the same fibre ran XGS-PON to carry office traffic, thereby demonstrating […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has expanded its Quillion portfolio with the launch of its smallest Optical Line Terminal (OLT) deployed with the Quillion chipset. The Lightspan DF-16GM OLT can simultaneously provide services from 1 to 25 Gbps making it the fastest mini-OLT on the market. Designed for deployment in street cabinets and available today, the device is targeted […]
News and BusinessNokia is to upgrade Europe’s largest distributed internet exchange for NL-ix, to provide metro access and backbone transport for all NL-ix customer traffic across Europe. Nokia will supply its optical transport solutions to provide a new optical layer over NL-ix’s meshed interconnection fabric to enable capacity growth link scaling. The new network will support client […]