PACKET TRANSPORT

Packet transport networks take advantage of a variety of technologies. Carrier Ethernet switches, packet optical transport systems, IP switches and routers, and label switched router platforms are some of the technologies carriers have employed in packet transport networks for mobile backhaul, video transmission, data services, and other digital services.

Packet Transport 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...

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...

GlobalConnect deploys Cyan Z-Series, SDN platform

Danish fiber-optic network services provider GlobalConnect has deployed Z-Series packet-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...

Infinera tops NSN/Coriant for BICS network upgrade

International wholesale carrier services provider BICS has chosen the DTN-X packet-optical t...

OTN switching no longer a niche technology says Infonetics study

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

24/7 to connect dark fiber backbone to CoreSite DC1 data center

Fiber-optic network service provider 24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network has agreed to extend its dark...

Six considerations for optimizing the cloud network

By 2016 nearly two-thirds of data-center traffic will be cloud traffic.

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.

Thu Apr 25 16:45:00 CDT 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

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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