News and BusinessCiena has announced contract wins with Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier, the international wholesale unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), and Telia Carrier in the US. The contract with Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier sees the first European 800G network going live, connecting data centres in Vienna, Austria. Ciena will supply its WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) to satisfy […]
Technologies and ProductsADVA has launched a new way for communication service providers (CSPs) to drive more revenue from their already deployed fibre networks. With spectrum as-a-service, CSPs can now slice the optical spectrum in their fibre infrastructure, just like radio spectrum in 5G networks. They can then sell different frequency blocks to different customers, enabling them to […]
News and BusinessAustria’s conova communications is using ADVA technology for secure, high-capacity transport between its data centres. The IT service provider has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 open line system (OLS) with ConnectGuard Optical encryption, in response to what it says is “booming demand” from business customers for reliable and protected cloud services. The fully redundant infrastructure […]
Technologies and ProductsScandinavian provider of open optical networking solutions Smartoptics has introduced a new, cost-optimised, fully automated 100G DWDM product. This provides open 100G DWDM transport using Smartoptics’ DCP-M Open Line System (OLS) and 100G PAM4 QFSP28 DWDM transceivers. The system is targeted at DataCentre Interconnect (DCI), metro aggregation and distributed access in fixed and mobile networks […]