Columbus Networks, a wholesale communications service provider in the pan Caribbean/Americas region, says that it has deployed 100-Gbps technology on its existing high-capacity network in Panama using equipment from Xtera Communications, Inc. The company claims it is the first to deploy 100G in the region....
TELE Greenland, Eastlink, Hibernia Atlantic ponder Icelandic low-latency route/ElectroniCast: APAC drives growth in fusion splicer market
TELE Greenland, Eastlink, and Hibernia Atlantic have revealed their plans for a low latency network connection between New York City and Landeyajasandur, Iceland. The proposed route would combine TELE Greenland’s Greenland Connect cable, network facilities owned and operated in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by Eastlink;...
WASACE shops for undersea cable/Motorola to debut VSN200 Optical Node at The Cable Show
WASACE Cable Co. says it has begun the process of selecting a cable system supplier for its planned undersea network that will link the United States with Africa, with links as well to Brazil and Europe. WASACE says its plans to deploy 100-Gbps technology across...
ADVA extends OpenFlow to optical layer/Tata Communications anchor tenant on Seabras-1 U.S.-Brazil cable system
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) says that it has created a way to extend the capabilities of OpenFlow to control wavelength-switched optical networks. The advance potentially links optical communication with the growing interest in software-defined networks, of which OpenFlow is an enabler. Software-defined networks, in...
How many 100GE Ports will ship in 2010?
Dell’Oro hasn’t predicted 100GE yet, but if 100GE follows a similar pattern as 10GE, then there will be minimal shipments in the first few years after the standard (This doesn’t have to be!) • One year after the 10G standard (2003), 10GE port shipments were...
Corning Cable Systems upgrades fiber-to-the-antenna offering/Cable&Wireless Worldwide chooses Ciena for 100-Gbps link
Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Inc.’s (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, has announced additions to its range of products for remote radio head (RRH) and related fiber-to-the-antenna (FTTA) applications. The new members of the line include OptiSheath MF2 and MF4 MultiPort Fiber Terminal Solutions, Remote...
For license: Process for 1.02 index of refraction fiber/GBI, Xtera claim first repeatered 100-Gbps cable system
Jim Bell, a gentleman with no background in fiber optics – or any kind of optics, for that matter – asserts he has unlocked the secret of why silica’s index of refraction is greater than 1. Bell says this discovery means he has a way...
North American Tier 1 customer in Infinera’s sights?/Mexico’s CFE Telecom taps Xtera for 100G network
Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ: INFN) may finally be about to land the type of big North American Tier 1 customer that has eluded it so far. The company revealed yesterday in announcing its first quarter earnings that such a customer has asked Infinera to complete the...
CommScope reorganizes customer segment management/New leadership in place at Berk-Tek
Cabling and communications systems supplier CommScope, Inc. has reorganized its business unit management structure around three customer segments—enterprise, wireless and broadband— and appointed heads for each. Kevin St. Cyr has joined CommScope as senior vice president, Enterprise Solutions, where he will lead engineering, R&D, and...
New IEEE standard targets smart-grid communications; more on the way/Vodafone to acquire Cable & Wireless
The IEEE has announced publication of a new standard intended to improve the communications and distribution-automation capabilities of smart grids. It also has embarked on the development of three additional standards for smart grids. The news standard is IEEE 1591.1-2012 – “Standard for Testing and...
