Friday 5 video for August 23, 2019 | Lightwave

He's back! Lightwave Editorial Director Stephen Hardy reviews the top stories over the past two weeks. There was good news and bad news from the market research community, Ethernet technology vendors get along real well, and then there's this whole thing with China...

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Vast Broadband buys NTS with help from new funding

The purchase expands Vast’s residential and business services customer list by more than 20,000.

John Stankey new AT&T president and COO, Jeff McElfresh CEO of AT&T Communications

Both appointments are effective October 1, 2019. Stankey will continue as CEO of WarnerMedia.

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PacketFabric touts $75 million in joint venture funding from Digital Alpha Advisors

The company says it will use the money to further develop the platform, which can offer 100 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, as well as increase its availability across the U.S. and worldwide.

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Optical transport, mobile RAN equipment sales drive 12-month year-on-year revenue growth: Dell’Oro

After three years of decline, telecom equipment sales actually began to pick up in the third quarter of 2018, asserts Dell’Oro.

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U.S. Commerce Department reviewing more than 130 Huawei license requests: Reuters

It does not appear that any licenses have been granted – or even fully reviewed, based on information in the Reuters article.

TeraXion’s executive management team, from left to right: Richard Kirouac, Ghislain Lafrance, and Alain-Jacques Simard.

TeraXion touts new funding, executive shifts

The company says it has sold a minority stake to BDC Capital’s Growth Equity division. BDC’s Growth and Transition Capital division also is working with CIBC on bank refinancing.

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Penny Herscher new Lumentum board chair

She replaces Martin A. Kaplan, who died August 3.

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AT&T Communications CEO John Donovan signals retirement date

Donovan has led AT&T Communications, AT&T Inc.’s largest business unit, for the past two years.

Tibit Communications' MicroPlug packs PON OLT functionality into transceiver packaging.

Tibit closes $25 million Series B funding round

Intel Capital led the round, with two new investors, Swisscom Ventures and Korea’s AJU IB Investment, joining in. The company’s existing investors also participated.

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Grain Management to buy Hunter Communications

Founded in 1992, Hunter provides data and voice service to residential and business customers in southern Oregon and parts of northern California.

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Gabriela Styf Sjöman new chief strategy officer at Nokia

She will succeed Kathrin Buvac, who continue in the role of president of Nokia Enterprise and member of the Group Leadership Team.

Optical network equipment sales in the Caribbean and Latin America reversed in 2Q19 a longstanding negative year-on-year revenue trend.

Optical network hardware sales grow worldwide in 2Q19: Cignal AI

Network operators worldwide combined to push sales of optical network hardware to year-over-year gains in every geographical segment during the second quarter of 2019, according to Cignal AI.

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2019 cloud data center capex to decline from 2018: Dell’Oro

Dell’Oro Group has launched coverage of cloud data center capital expenditures (capex).

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U.S. Commerce Dept. grants Huawei another 90-day pass but adds more affiliates to Entity List

The Temporary General License BIS granted Huawei is the second the Chinese telecommunications technology supplier has received.