MOBILE BACKHAUL

The use of fiber optics in mobile backhaul grows. Optical networks, including PON for mobile backhaul, provides low latency and high bandwidth for wireless backhaul applications. Mobile backhaul synchronization, via such technologies a Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) and IEEE 1588, has emerged as an important element.

Mobile Backhaul NEWS & PRODUCTS

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...

European Commission: Huawei, ZTE violate fair trade

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendors Huawei and ZTE are in hot water again, this tim...

Zayo boosts Indianapolis 500 small cell network with fiber-optic ring

Zayo Group reveals that it will deploy a dark fiber mobile backhaul infrastructure for “a ma...

DukeNet Communications taps Telco Systems for mobile backhaul, Ethernet services

Telco Systems, a BATM company (LSE: BVC, TASE: BATM), says that it is supplying its T-Marc d...

Transmode targets C-RANs with mobile fronthaul system

Packet-optical transport systems vendor Transmode has unveiled a new offering for mobile ope...

Omnitron simplifies CE 2.0 service management with NetOutlook EMS

Omnitron Systems Technology, Inc., a provider of Carrier Ethernet demarcation devices, has l...

TransPacket validates performance with Symmetricom

Norwegian Ethernet optical transport platform startup TransPacket AS has joined SyncWorld Ec...

fSONA provides mobile backhaul to Touch customers in Lebanon

fSONA Networks, manufacturer of free-space optical (FSO) wireless communications equipment, ...

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...

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The Lightwave Blog

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, it's not pulling up stakes and leaving. As previously reported, Eric Xu, Huawei executive vice president, told attendees at an analyst conference this week that "we are not interested ...

The Lightwave Guest Blog

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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