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Birch Communications acquires Cbeyond for $323 million

Two Atlanta-based communications providers are to join forces. Birch Communications, Inc., a...

Fiber-optic test market to benefit from wireless deployments says Frost & Sullivan

Market research firm Frost & Sullivan predicts that sales of fiber-optic test equipment ...

Forty million new broadband subscribers in 2013 says Broadband Forum

Year-end figures for broadband and IPTV adoption, published by the Broadband Forum and prepa...

Colin Doherty new president and CEO of optical packet transport vendor BTI Systems

Optical transport systems and cloud networking vendor BTI Systems has named Colin Doherty it...

Bookham founder resurfaces at Rockley Photonics

Dr. Andrew Rickman, who previously founded Bookham Technology in the UK – now Oclaro, Inc. (...

Number of US businesses connected to a fiber-optic network nears 40%

Market research firm Vertical Systems Group says that 39.3% of businesses in the United Stat...

SDN and NFV enter carrier trial phase says Infonetics

Market research firm Infonetics Research reports that nearly every operator questioned as pa...

Padtec invests in ClariPhy, partners for coherent systems development

Padtec S.A., a Brazilian optical transport systems vendor, and communications system on a ch...

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Editorial Guides

	Emerging 100G applications and technologies It’s clear that the deployment of 100-Gbps technology is well underway. But that doesn’t mean that developments have stopped. These ...
	New opportunities for PON Passive optical network (PON) technology has established a strong foothold in telco networks. Now with the attention given to Google...
	Fiber support of small cells As mobile network operators move to small cell architectures, the demands for both traditional mobile backhaul and emerging mobile f...
	Fiber in harsh environments Fiber is sometimes thought of as a physically fragile medium. But recent advances have overcome previous limitations, opening the do...
	Fttx: a look ahead Fiber to the home (FTTH) has proven its value as the most future-proof method of providing broadband services. But challenges remain...
	Advances in optical design testing Demands for support of 100 Gbps data rates in smaller packages have challenged technology developers’ creativity. Optical communicat...
	Passive optical LANs bring fiber to the desktop economically A growing number of enterprises have discovered the benefits of using passive optical LANs to meet the high-bandwidth needs of their...
	The Expanding World of Data Centers Data center requirements have grown increasingly complex, requiring new technology that operates at higher speeds. Whether it’s serv...