Friday 5 video for 3.20.15

Mar 20th, 2015

Lightwave Editorial Director Stephen Hardy reviews the top stories for the week ending March 20, 2015, with the upcoming OFC show in mind. Stephen gets nostalgic about a formerly hyped market, looks at M&A, and highlights big trends for OFC.

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Huawei receives third Temporary General License from Commerce Department

Huawei was placed on the Entity List due to charges the company attempted to sell systems built with U.S.-sourced companies to Iran in defiance of a U.S. embargo. Huawei and the Chinese government deny the charges.

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Telia Carrier to deploy open optical line system in Europe via Ciena

The deployment will begin next year and will increase capacity in such markets as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, and Paris as part of an initiative to create what Telia Carrier is calling a “European Express Network.”

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Liquid Telecom completes East/West pan-African fiber-optic network

Liquid Telecom says this fiber network is the first to completely link East and West Africa.

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Orange plans fiber backbone network in West Africa

The network will combine centrally supervised terrestrial and submarine cable links to connect such major cities as Dakar, Bamako, Abidjan, Accra, and Lagos.

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Broadcom reacquires optical transceiver assets from Foxconn

Avago sold the assets in 2015, shortly before the company merged with Broadcom through acquisition.

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Ribbon Communications to acquire ECI Telecom

Ribbon says the deal, which it hopes to close during the first quarter of 2020, will expand its product portfolio and position the company to participate in the 5G mobile market.

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NTT Electronics offers TIP Goldstone open source OS for disaggregated coherent transponders

The open source platform, contributed to the NOS Software Project within TIP’s Open Optical and Packet Transport project group, helps enable rapid integration of elements in disaggregated optical systems, the company says.

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Broadcom sampling BCM68650 10G PON OLT MAC family

The MAC can support up to 16 XGS-PON, NG-PON2, or 10G-EPON interfaces, making it suited to high-density OLT line card designs.

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Fiber community gathers next week at 5G ‘flex point’

A CRU International analyst describes “a flex point” for the community, which awaits extensive 5G mobile network roll outs as a potential remedy for two years of cabled fiber market declines.

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Spectranet to deploy GPON FTTH with Nokia in Nigeria

The FTTH rollout will complement Spectranet’s wireless broadband capabilities, which have been available since 2013.

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Horizon completes Phase 1 of Columbus fiber network deployment

The expansion includes connections to major business parks and commercial locations as well as seven data centers.

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Netnod adds 400GbE ports to two internet exchanges

Netnod says the addition of the 400GbE ports comes as demand for 100GbE ports has increased approximately 25% annually since 2016.

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Equinix building third IBX data center in Warsaw

WA3 will have 475 cabinets and more than 1400 square meters (15,200 square feet) of colocation data center space in its first phase.