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Is your Network Ready for 400GbE?

Is your Network Ready for 400GbE?

Learn how network operators can support 100G and 400G client traffic across DCI edge, metro, long-haul, and submarine applications in an efficient, scalable, and cost-effective manner with multi-haul coherent solutions.

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TDS closes purchase of Continuum

The company announced the $80 million deal for Continuum, headquartered in Mooresville, NC, in August 2019.

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Videotron agrees to buy Cable Amos

The acquisition dovetails with Videotron’s plans to serve the rest of the western Quebec region via interconnecting to the network of fellow cable operator Cablevision.

Rob Skinner, Octopus, with Brice Yharrassarry, CEO of Swish Fibre, signing their new agreement supported by their respective teams.

Swish Fibre to fund UK FTTP deployment through sale to Fern Trading

The London-based company says it plans to pass 250,000 premises in the Home Counties with its FTTP infrastructure.

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U.S. FTTH homes passed sets year-on-year record: Fiber Broadband Association

U.S. broadband services providers and network operators have rolled out enough fiber to the home (FTTH) infrastructure to pass 6.5 million homes over the past 12 months.

Rich Schroeder will become Tellabs president and CEO on January 1, 2020.

Rich Schroder new president and CEO of Tellabs Access

Schroder, who currently is the company’s COO, replaces Jim Norrod in these roles.

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China Mobile uses Huawei’s BusinessPON for passive optical LAN installations

The Chinese service provider has used the gear to create gigabit-capable passive optical LAN private network for commercial buildings and smart campuses in Chengdu.

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Prysmian intros BendBrightXS 180µm bend-insensitive single-mode fiber

As the name implies, the bend-insensitive fiber features a diameter of 180 µm, slightly narrower than the wave of 200-µm fibers that have reached the market over the past several years.

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Altice Europe links with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners to create Altice Portugal FTTH network wholesaler

Altice Portugal FTTH will leverage all of MEO’s fiber to the home (FTTH) and dark fiber assets, which pass approximately 4 million homes in Portugal.

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Fiber Broadband Association announces new leadership

Katie Espeseth, vice president of new products at broadband service provider EPB, will become board chair on January 1, 2020, for the year.

Fujikura Launches The 90 S

Fujikura offers 90S core alignment fusion splicer

The new unit offers a range of enhancements from the standard set by the previous 70S+ system, says the company. These features increase precision while reducing splice time, Fujikura asserts.

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KPN plans fiber to the home deployment in Amsterdam

The FTTH deployment is part of a project to connect 1 million homes throughout the Netherlands by the end of 2021.

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C Spire to expand FTTP footprint into Alabama

The initiative will start with Jasper, in northwest Alabama, in 2020 and extend to metropolitan Birmingham, Shelby County, and “other parts of Alabama,” in the words of a C Spire press release.

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Google Fiber to sell only gigabit broadband services

The company also will offer the opportunity to subscribe to Google’s YouTube TV as they subscribe to Google Fiber.