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...
Sunrise Telecom offers AT2500Plus spectrum analyzer for cable operators/DuPont, Fiber-Line collaborate on fiber-optic cable protection
Sunrise Telecom Inc. (OTC: SRTI) says the new addition to its family of CATV spectrum analyzers, the AT2500Plus, enables comprehensive digital and analog test automation to ensure that networks meet the technical parameters required by FCC and SCTE-40. Thus, the AT2500Plus helps operators to eliminate...
Troy Cable chooses ADTRAN for SmartBand BTOP middle mile project/Eurofiber offers 100 Gigabit Ethernet using Infinera’s DTN platform
Alabama’s Troy Cable has chosen ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) to deliver carrier access and enterprise equipment for the cable operator’s SmartBand Project, according to the systems house. Troy Cable is using funding from the Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) to deploy a 595-mile fiber-optic middle-mile network...
ABI Research: Cable to account for 25% of fixed broadband subscribers by 2017/Reliance Globalcom activates Al-Faw cable landing station in Iraq
Cable digitization efforts in developing economies will be a key driver for cable broadband penetration worldwide, driving service revenues to the $50 billion mark in 2017, according to the latest market analysis from ABI Research. Cable operators in developing regions are entering the market for...
ElectroniCast: 2012 fiber-optic connector/mechanical splice market to fall/Datwyler offers turnkey fiber-optic distribution stations
According to the latest report from ElectroniCast Consultants, consumption of fiber-optic connectors used in the American and Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) regions is forecast to decline this year. However, recovery is expected in 2013, the company says. ElectroniCast says the number of fiber-optic connectors and mechanical...
Alcatel-Lucent to supply 100G SLTE for GlobeNet connection to Colombia/Optical transport for cell backhaul: SONET, Carrier Ethernet, and cell-site fiber challenges
Submarine capacity supplier GlobeNet, a subsidiary of Brazil’s Oi, will use optical transport equipment from Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) in its recently announced project to link Colombia to its existing undersea fiber optical network (see “GlobeNet undersea cable route to link Colombia and...
Hibernia Atlantic renames GFN as the Global Express Platform /Colt opens low-latency route from Dublin to London
Global capacity provider Hibernia Atlantic has rebranded its Global Financial Network (GFN) as the Global Express Platform. While the name has changed, the network continues to supply reliable, high-speed, low-latency services to the financial community, including global broker dealers, hedge funds, and capital markets across...
Ciena to upgrade Japan-US Cable trans-Pacific network with 100G/FibreCo Telecommunications uses Corning fiber in open access network
Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) says the Japan-US Cable consortium is upgrading its trans-Pacific submarine network, which spans nearly 23,000 km between the US and Japan, with Ciena’s Wavelogic 3 coherent 100G technology. Expected to be in service in early 2013, the upgraded network will bring...
