The submarine cable will run between Minami Boso, Chiba, Japan, and Piti, Guam, and is scheduled to be ready for service in the first quarter of 2020.
The adapters expand the number of connectors across which technicians can measure insertion loss and return loss of all fibers without having to move or slide the adapter, says the company.
The hire marks a move by LightCounting toward better serving the financial community’s needs for optical communications technology market research.
The activist investment firm released a letter to AT&T management on September 9 in which it revealed it has acquired $3.2 billion in AT&T stock (about 1% of the company’s market capitalization) and now wants management to make a few changes.
The study notes that fiber homes passed in the U.S. at the end of last year numbered 39.2 million, with current momentum expected to drive that figure to 65.1 million by 2025 – approximately 50% of U.S. households.
It is the Ethernet Alliance’s interoperability test event—the “plugfest”—where the technology’s global reputation for seamless, multi-vendor interoperability is definitively earned.
The MSA’s specification will support 8x100G and 4x200G optical transmission, with the latter a focus of development within the group.
The mid-year 2019 edition of the Leaderboard shows CenturyLink again in the top position within a market that saw a 5% increase in port installation for the first six months of the year.
Equinix has selected IX Reach as its exclusive beta partner for reseller ports on the Equinix Internet Exchange in London and Paris.
The purchase was funded in part by a portion of what the company termed “a significant equity investment” made recently by New York-based investment firm Turning Rock Partners.
The optical network technology provider says NBN Co will use Transcend to enable dynamic service rerouting capabilities across its 60,000-km fiber-optic transit network.
Xplornet says it plans to provide more than 80,000 rural homes and businesses in rural parts of Eastern Ontario with access to better broadband services, thanks to a more than 600-km fiber network roll out.
The unit is designed to enable network operators to host virtual network functions (VNFs) at the network edge while supporting the transition from 4G LTE to 5G mobile networks.
The deal immediately expands Bluebird Network’s fiber footprint in the Midwest, thanks to a tie up with REIT Uniti Group Inc.
The fiber cabling technology company, which has listed Deutsche Glasfaser as a customer since 2012, asserts it won the contract in competition with two other vendors.
