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Business NEWS & PRODUCTS

Cyan chairman adds CEO title

Cyan Chairman Mark Floyd has added chief executive officer duties to his responsibilities, t...

Intune Networks appoints ex-Ciena exec as COO

Irish optical transport and switching company Intune Networks has appointed Arthur Smith as ...

Infonetics: Optical network spending slips 23% in 1Q12

Infonetics Research reports in its newly released Optical Network Hardware vendor market sha...

ElectroniCast: APAC drives growth in fusion splicer market

ElectroniCast Consultants has released a new report covering the worldwide market for fiber-...

Cisco strikes cautious note for fourth quarter

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) reported record revenues in its fiscal third quarter, which ended April...

Ixia to acquire Anue Systems

Network test equipment vendor Ixia says it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquir...

Cbeyond extends reach via FiberLight, Zayo

Network and cloud services provider Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY) has announced partnerships with a...

DAX, NetSocket to supply JDSU PacketPortal applications

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) says that DAX Technologies Corp. and NetSocket will supply ap...

Editorial Guides

Lightwave Editorial Guide: What's New in 100g?

Lightwave Editorial Guide: What's New in 100G?

A new wave of 100-Gbps technology is about to hit the market. Meanwhile, the foundations of that technology also have indicated how ...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Connecting the data center

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Connecting the data center

With data rate requirements in some data centers approaching 100 Gbps, it’s more important than ever to have an effective cabling an...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Access network advances and alternatives

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Access network advances and alternatives

A variety of new technologies are emerging to help enable carriers keep up with bandwidth demand in the access. Here’s a look at how...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Multi-lane data transmission technology

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Increasing Bandwidth Demand Drive Test Innovation

Both in the lab and in the field, higher data rates are driving requirements and innovation. Test technology has evolved to enable t...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Multi-lane data transmission technology

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Multi-lane data transmission technology

A number of different standards and specifications are taking advantage of multi-lane, multi-fiber, or multi-wavelength transmission...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Fiber meets emerging enterprise network requirements

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Fiber meets emerging enterprise network requirements

Enterprise networks continue to become increasingly complex, which means fiber is finding a bigger role in them from the cloud to th...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Guide to Meeting High-Speed Requirements in the Data Center

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Guide to Meeting High-Speed Requirements in the Data Center

With demands on data center resources escalating, network managers seek to increase transmission rates while decreasing complexity a...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

Oclaro 2Q12 earnings call tidbits

Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts January 26 after announcing it had exceeded guidance by $1 million (see "Oclaro weathers Thailand flooding in fiscal second quarter"). Here are some statements of interest I didn't...

Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Swimming in 100GbE’s alphabet soup

Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Given the alphabet soup of acronyms one has to wade through when dealing with standards bodies and multisource agreements (MSA), such confusion perhaps is not surprising. For example, I have re...

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