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A fiber optic company faces the same demands for profitability and market share as other firms. Fiber optic company executives must keep track of technology and market trends. Delivering value to shareholders may require expanding through mergers and acquisitions. Keeping track of competitors is a continual process.

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Mellanox to buy silicon photonics developer Kotura

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), which focuses on interconnect for se...

Cisco third quarter beats Street thanks to enterprise sales

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) pleased Wall Street yesterday when it announced net sales for its fisca...

Acacia Communications adds funding, hints at new products

Coherent transmission technology developer Acacia Communications has closed a new $20 millio...

Prysmian opens new fiber-optic cable plant in Romania

Cable maker Prysmian Group says it has a new fiber-optic cable production facility at its ca...

C&W, Columbus form subsea joint venture in the Caribbean

Cable & Wireless Communications PLC (CWC) says it has entered into a strategic alliance ...

NeoPhotonics sets revenue record in first quarter 2013

Optical component and subsystem supplier NeoPhotonics Corp. (NYSE: NPTN) says that the $56.1...

Fibrenoire expands fiber-optic network with Montreal acquisitions

Canadian service provider Fibrenoire has expanded its network with the acquisition of Sociét...

Cyan IPO to launch today

Packet-optical transport and SDN platform vendor Cyan, Inc. (NYSE: CYNI) is ready for its in...

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Editorial Guides

	New perspectives on OTN Optical Transport Network (OTN) technology is rapidly replacing SONET/SDH in packet-optimized networks. As new network needs arise, ...
	New era emerges for submarine networks We are currently in a new era of submarine network construction and upgrade. New systems are being constructed, and established sys...
	The next generation of 100G Now that 100-Gbps transmission is reaching the field, work is already underway on the second generation of the technology. Upcoming...
	Fiber powers mobile backhaul The traffic demands mobile broadband have created have driven operators to rethink their mobile backhaul strategies. Many have concl...
	The year ahead in optical communications Of course, no one truly knows all that the future will bring – but that won’t stop us from making predictions. Here’s a compendium o...
	Fiber optics for the data center As capacity demands climb and footprints grow in the data center, fiber-optic technology becomes increasingly appealing for communic...
	High-Speed Packet Transport Service providers of all stripes – from telcos to cable operators and wholesalers to managed data services providers – are seeing an...
	Fiber-optic advances for the enterprise With bandwidth demands growing in enterprise networks, fiber-optic technology development is keeping pace. From finding ways to mini...
	Integration as an enabler for next-generation equipment design Next-generation optical communications systems have to keep pace with the ever-increasing data rate and functionality requirements o...