II-VI Inc. has finally received approval from the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China (SAMR) for the company’s planned acquisition of Finisar Corp. – with a small catch.
TRANSKZ offers three diverse routes between Europe and the Chinese border, running through Kazakhstan.
Application of the ICE4 coherent transmission technology doubled the capacity of the Greece to Italy connection, Infinera says.
The open, disaggregated pFTTx platform is based on the ONF’s Software-defined networks Enabled Broadband Access (SEBA) reference design and was developed with hardware partner Edgecore Networks.
The instrument enables network installers and maintainers to validate network performance and service distribution quickly, comprehensively, and correctly, says VIAVI.
With the approval in hand, MicroCare will supply the Sticklers cleaning kit to Openreach.
In this role, ADVA will supply Sify with the ADVA FSP 150, which the ICT service provider will deploy to support the delivery of a new managed Ethernet service.
The company plans to demonstrate the AC1200-SC2 at ECOC 2019 September 22-26 in Dublin, Ireland. An Acacia source says the company already has customers lined up for the optical module.
Sales of DWDM systems in the first six months of 2019 climbed 8% year-on-year, writes Dell’Oro analyst Jimmy Yu in a recently posted blog.
Meanwhile, OIF Physical and Link Layer Working Group, Vice Chair Optical Karl Gass will deliver a presentation titled “Deployment of the 400ZR Ecosystem” on Tuesday, September 24, from 3:00 to 3:30 PM.
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.
