LW Friday Five Exclusive - Mar 15th, 2024
 
 
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March 15, 2024
Lumen sees enhancing its financial stability and finding ways to monetize AI as two elements of its long-term outlook. Meanwhile, Ciena and Infinera cited ongoing carrier digestion as key challenge in the latest earnings reports, but foresee growth later this year. Lightwave Editor-in-Chief Sean Buckley explains it in this week's Friday 5 video.
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Blackstone will provide support for Aligned’s newest data center.
The organization’s multivendor interoperability demo, paired with the LPO display, aims to illustrate Ethernet’s capacity for handling hyperscale, AI/ML workloads, and other demanding applications.
Inventory digestion is hindering revenue, but Infinera expects a promising end to the year.
Despite seeing longer delays in inventory correction, the vendor expects a pickup in sales later this year.
The company is ramping up Lumen Digital offerings to take advantage of growth opportunities.