TRANSPORT

The growing bandwidth demand on cable MSO backbones from triple- and quadruple-play broadband service provision has led to increasing use of WDM, DWDM, ROADM, and other fiber-optic systems. MSOs must evolve these networks for efficient transport of Ethernet and IP packets as well.

Transport NEWS & PRODUCTS

Cisco lands Chinese cable operator as 100-Gbps network client

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) says it has supplied its Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router and...

OE Solutions to sell Aim Valley's EX14 Transport NID

OE Solutions Co., Ltd. and Aim Valley BV have extended their partnership beyond technology c...

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...

Troy Cablevision deploys Optelian gear for 100G fiber-optic network

Troy Cablevison, Inc. has installed Optelian’s MPX-9110 100-Gbps platform in its Alabama fib...

Agder Breiband deploys DTN, ATN systems from Infinera

Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) says that Nordic cable operator Agder Breiband has deployed the opti...

Ciena boosts Ethernet packet switching of 6500 packet-optical transport system

Optical transport systems vendor Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) has unveiled new modules and sof...

Artel Video Systems simplifies Ethernet traffic transport

Artel Video Systems, a provider of broadcast-quality video transport equipment, says its DLM...

Huawei unveils photonic integrated device for metro networks

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd., has unveiled a new photonic integrated device (PID) aimed at me...

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Six considerations for optimizing the cloud network

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.

April 25, 2013
Huawei would like you to know that while it has decided that it's unlikely to achieve rampant success in the U.S. carrier network equipment market,...

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Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Ethernet runs out of steam

February 1, 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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