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Ovum expects optical component sales to exceed $10B in 2018

Driven by increases in demand for WAN and datacom applications, sales of optical components ...

Infonetics: Modest growth ahead for WSS component market

Market research firm Infonetics Research says that 100G coherent optical transmission system...

Infonetics: Broadband aggregation market can’t beat 2012

First quarter 2013 (1Q13) spending on broadband aggregation equipment was up in North Americ...

Infonetics: Healthy outlook for carrier router/switch market

In spite of a down quarter to start the year, Infonetics Research expects the carrier router...

Study touts government/private partnership as likely best approach for national fiber plans

Arthur D. Little, in a report released last week at the 2013 Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Counci...

PON becoming more attractive for mobile backhaul says Ovum analyst

While the use of passive optical network (PON) technology for mobile backhaul isn’t new, Jul...

Annualized 100G hardware revenues top $1B says Ovum

Sales of 100-Gbps optical network (ON) technology surpassed $1 billion on an annualized basi...

Packet-optical transport system sales urge in 1Q13 says Dell'Oro Group

Sales of packet-optical transport systems continued to shine in the first quarter of 2013, r...

Optical network hardware market 'looking good' in 2013 says Infonetics Research

Proving that it’s all how you look at things, analysts at Infonetics Research say there’s re...

OTN switching no longer a niche technology says Infonetics study

Infonetics Research says the results of its latest Optical Transport Network (OTN) study ind...

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The Lightwave Blog

Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

No national fiber broadband network for U.S.

Fri May 31 12:45:00 CDT 2013
The folks at market research and analysis firm IHS (NYSE: IHS) recently made the assertion in a new report from their IHS Screen Digest Operator Mu...

The Lightwave Guest Blog

Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Ethernet runs out of steam

Fri Feb 01 14:30:00 CST 2013
Big news on the higher-speed Ethernet front. No, not that work has begun on 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), thus setting the bar low, but rather the intention to go for 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (TbE) afterward. Yes, that’s right. After deca...

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