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What a fiber optic company does behind the scenes is often as important as a new product announcement. Here you’ll find fiber optic company announcements of partnerships, personnel changes, facility expansion (and contraction), and more. You’ll also find comment on such fiber optic company events.
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Frontier to change CEOs
03/03/2015
Frontier Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:FTR) has announced that current president and COO Daniel J....
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JDSU reveals names for post-split companies
02/27/2015
For those of you wondering which arm of JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) would retain the family name once the...
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Netrality Properties expands into Houston
02/10/2015
Netrality Properties, a colocation/connectivity company that debuted last month, has expanded its...
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Sterlite beefs up broadband research
02/03/2015
Fiber-maker Sterlite Technologies (BSE: 532374, NSE:STRTECH) says it will support its home countr...
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Orange to fund startups via Digital Ventures investment program
01/22/2015
French telecom giant Orange says it will launch an early stage investment program aimed at suppor...
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LightPath Technologies closes $1.3M private placement with Pudong Science & Technology
01/22/2015
LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH), which supplies optical components and subsystems, sa...
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Netrality Properties to offer meet me rooms with no monthly cross-connect charges
01/16/2015
Real estate development firm Amerimar Enterprises, Inc. and Allied Fiber CEO and founder Hunter N...
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AFL adds to patent portfolio
01/15/2015
AFL says it recently has been awarded four new patents. They cover technologies related to the co...
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Integra adds Electric Lightwave, Integra Business fiber network units
01/13/2015
Fiber-optic network services provider Integra has announced the creation of a pair of new busines...
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ADVA Optical Networking names Nikos Theodosopoulos chairman of Supervisory Board
01/12/2015
Optical transport systems vendor ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) has made Nikos Theodosopoulos...
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Fiber Optic Center names Kathleen Skelton director of strategic marketing
01/08/2015
Fiber-optic components, equipment, and supplies distributor Fiber Optic Center, Inc. (FOC) has hi...
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ZTE takes stake in components vendor Enablence
12/16/2014
Chinese optical systems vendor ZTE Corp. (H: 0763.HK/A: 000063.SZ) has invested CAD$2.7 million (...
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Changes at the top for MRV Communications
12/15/2014
Optical transport systems vendor MRV Communications (NASDAQ:MRVC) has made a pair of changes at t...
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Ciena believes diversification will lead to growth
12/12/2014
As previously reported, the revelation of an unanticipated loss in its fiscal fourth quarter orig...
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Industry veterans back Silicon Catalyst semiconductor startup incubator
12/11/2014
Silicon Catalyst has launched what the group says is the industry's first incubator for semicondu...
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Companies Featured Articles
Interview with Andre Kriger -- FTTXcellence Award winner fibers Brazil
With both the World Cup and Olympics coming to Brazil, the country's service providers are furiou...
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Bubble-era ambition in a post-bubble world
Here's something we haven't seen since those good old bubble days: A plan for a nationwide U.S. n...
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More than one route to packet optical transport, says ADVA's Protiva
By Stephen Hardy -- While several competitors develop and market integrated packet optical transp...
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Huawei sources: FTTH efforts drive greater GPON interest in China
Huawei sources say that growing interest in fiber to the home (FTTH) deployments by major Chinese...
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Most of the hullabaloo around silicon photonics has centered on its application to data center networks. But presentations and announcements at last month’s ECOC in Cannes, France, indicate the technology will play on the line side as well.
For example, Acacia Communications used the show to further publicize its use of sili...
Why there is no room for ego in the new-age networking ecosystem
01/23/2015
The term "ecosystem" seems pretty well ensconced in the IT industry, and in networking too of late. The idea of a system of vendors, developers, and operators interacting and collaborating to mutual benefit is one that seems like it ought to have come to fruition a long time ago. Given where we are heading...
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