NETWORK DESIGN

Fiber-optic network design focuses on support of increasing bandwidth requirements in carrier and enterprise fiber-optic networks. From fiber optic cable to DWDM, ROADM, and packet optical transport platforms, fiber-optic network design technology continues to find a home in mobile backhaul, cloud services, data center, and other high-speed network applications.

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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...

Hudson Fiber Network taps euNetworks for low-latency London fiber-optic route

Fiber-optic network services provider euNetworks Group Ltd. (SGX: H23.SI) says it has signed...

BT and Ciena trial 800G superchannel

Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) and BT say they have successfully transmitted an 800-Gbps superch...

Zayo to supply IP connectivity to FDCServers.net

Fiber-optic network services provider Zayo Group says it will supply more than 500 Gbps of I...

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...

RASCOM runs 100 Gbps from Russia to Western Europe with Ciena gear

Russian service provider RASCOM is using the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform from Ciena Corp. (...

VTLWaveNet upgrades fiber-optic network to 100 Gbps via Huawei

Fiber-optic network services provider VTLWaveNet, part of the Viatel Group (which itself rec...

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...

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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...