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VTLWaveNet upgrades fiber-optic network to 100 Gbps via Huawei

Fiber-optic network services provider VTLWaveNet, part of the Viatel Group (which itself recently became part of DigiWeb) has finished the first phase of a network upgrade that will see the additio...

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 reason for optimism among optical transport equipment vendors in 2013, despite the fact that sales during t...

European Commission: Huawei, ZTE violate fair trade

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendors Huawei and ZTE are in hot water again, this time in Europe. The European Commission, via Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, cited the two firms this pas...

Russia’s MegaFon upgrades metro networks with NEC and Transmode

NEC Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary CJSC NEC Neva Communications Systems, together with Transmode Systems AB , have supplied Russian telecom operator MegaFon with metro DWDM optical networkin...

Didon submarine cable will connect Tunisia to Europe

A new submarine fiber-optic cable will use technology from Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) to boost the capacity and reliability of Tunisia’s international connections and meet the gr...

Eircom unveils national high-speed broadband network

Irelands’ incumbent operator Eircom has officially launched its new “e-fibre” high-speed broadband network and revealed its long-term plans. The network is based on a fiber-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) ar...

AFL offers Fujikura One-Click Cleaner MPO

AFL says it has expanded its One-Click Cleaner product line with the One-Click Cleaner MPO. The new product, part of AFL’s NOYES cleaning product line, is aimed at data center personnel.

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 major wireless network” at this year’s Indianapolis 500 in Indianapolis, IN. The fiber-optic network servic...

Clearfield unveils FieldSmart Fiber Distribution Point – KIS outdoor fiber enclosure

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD) has introduced its latest addition to the FieldSmart fiber enclosure line, the FieldSmart Fiber Delivery Point (FDP) KIS Outdoor Enclosure. The modular FDP-KIS (KIS i...

Mellanox to buy silicon photonics developer Kotura

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), which focuses on interconnect for servers and storage systems, says it has agreed to purchase silicon photonics technology developer Kotura I...

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