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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 coherent DWDM line cards on the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) to Zhejiang Wasu ...

Soros leads £50 million funding round for UK FTTH service provider Hyperoptic

UK fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service provider Hyperoptic says that has received an equity investment commitment of £50 million led by Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd. (Quantum). Quantum is a private ...

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 a contract to provide U.S. counterpart Hudson Fiber Network (HFN) with its euTrade service portfolio. Th...

VI Systems touts 28-Gbps VCSEL reliability data

German high-speed VCSEL supplier VI Systems GmbH says that a recent study confirms the reliability of its V25-850C4 4x1 vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array.

BT and Ciena trial 800G superchannel

Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) and BT say they have successfully transmitted an 800-Gbps superchannel over a 410-km link on BT’s fiber-optic network this past March.

Zayo to supply IP connectivity to FDCServers.net

Fiber-optic network services provider Zayo Group says it will supply more than 500 Gbps of IP connectivity to FDCServers.net LLC, which offers unmetered dedicated servers, virtual dedicated servers...

m2fx adds $3 million in new funding

Pushable fiber-optic cable developer m2fx says it has closed a $3 million (£2 million) funding round, led by existing investor Linnaeus Capital Partner B.V. The company will use the money to boost ...

OE Solutions to sell Aim Valley's EX14 Transport NID

OE Solutions Co., Ltd. and Aim Valley BV have extended their partnership beyond technology co-development (see, for example, “Smart SFP first offering from OE Solutions, AimValley collaboration”) t...

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, rising 23% year on year to $1.1 billion. The figures are contained in a newly published report from Dell’O...

Ericsson to shutter telecom cable manufacturing operations

As part of its review of its operations, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has decided to cease the manufacture of communications cables. The operations are part of the company’s Networks business unit.

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