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Blueline Madagascar taps Ribbon for optical transport

By Peter Dykes

Ribbon Communications say Blueline, a provider of internet, voice and television services throughout Madagascar, has selected Ribbon’s Apollo Optical Networking solution to upgrade the bandwidth capacity of its communications network. The Apollo 9600 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and Optical Transport solution provides Blueline multi-service transport capabilities on an energy-efficient multi-wavelength 100 Gigabit (100G) backbone […]

News and Business

Swisscom taps Nokia for new optical transport network

By Peter Dykes

Nokia says it has been selected by Swisscom to transform the operator’s existing infrastructure to a fully automated and high-capacity optical transport network. Nokia is the sole supplier to build the end-to-end wavelength division multiplexing/optical transport network (WDM/OTN) nationwide, which will support Swisscom customers’ surging bandwidth demands driven by an increase in remote work and […]

Technologies and Products

Nokia, Elisa, push network boundaries with world’s first 1T deployment

By Peter Dykes

Nokia says it has achieved a major network capacity milestone with its long-standing partner Elisa while preparing the operator’s network for the future. Through a live commercial trial, the companies are proving the world’s first 1T clear-channel interface deployment to efficiently scale Elisa’s network to support new applications and access technologies. Elisa upgraded some […]

News and Business

Ekinops, Nexicom, enter Canadian distribution partnership

By Peter Dykes

Optical transport and enterprise connectivity supplier EKINOPS has entered a new distribution partnership with Nexicom Systems Inc. (NSI), to help meet growing demand for more cost-effective, high-performance edge technologies and optical transport solutions in Canada. Through the new partnership, Nexicom Systems can now offer Ekinops’ portfolio of open and fully interoperable optical transport and access […]

News and Business

EMEA rescues transport revenues in 3Q20 – report

By Peter Dykes

European operators resumed purchases of optical and packet transport hardware in 3Q20 as COVID-related supply chain and operational delays eased, according to the most recent Transport Hardware Report from research firm Cignal AI. At the same time, North American spending weakness spread to the optical hardware segment as the region’s operators paused capex after aggressive […]

Technologies and Products

Ribbon revolutionises OTN access economics

By Peter Dykes

Ribbon Communications has added to its Apollo 9900 Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching portfolio with the Apollo 9901X platform and the MIO700 blade. Ribbon says the new solutions extend OTN switching from core to metro networks cost-efficiently, a difficult requirement to fulfil until today. Ribbon’s 9901X access OTN switch provides the benefits of a software-configurable […]

Technologies and Products

PacketLight launches new line of 200/400G metro and long-haul kit

By Peter Dykes

PacketLight Networks has launched the PL-4000 product line of modular 400G muxponder and transponder for DCI, high capacity metro, and long-haul applications. The products are designed to help build high capacity networks and provide secure transport from 400G to 1.6T, with full visibility and performance monitoring of the optical transport layer (OTN), and support a […]

Applications and Research

Huawei completes live 800G trials with Turkcell, China Mobile Zhejiang

By Peter Dykes

Huawei has announced that it has completed two 800G coherent trials on live networks. One is with Turkcell and the other with China Mobile Zhejiang. The announcement follows Huawei’s launch of a 800G tunable optical module at the end of February 2020. The Turkcell trial took place between two data centres in Istanbul using Huawei’s […]