August 26, 2011
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE:ALU) says that China Telecom will deploy the system house’s 7750 Service Routers and 5620 Service Aware Manager portfolio to upgrade its network to include 100-Gbps capabilities. Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship company in China, received the contract.
August 26, 2011
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE:ALU) and Mobily, the brand name of a Saudi Arabian mobile operator Etihad Etisalat, say they have successfully completed a trial of 100-Gbps transmission technology using live traffic in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
August 26, 2011
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) says that US Signal will deploy the network equipment provider’s ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers as part of a fiber-optic network upgrade. The upgrade aims to support virtual Carrier Ethernet services at rates up to 100 Gbps and new managed data center services for enterprise customers. IPv6 support is also a key element, Cisco asserts.
August 26, 2011
AFL is supplying fiber optic cable and equipment to Nigeria’s first open access fiber-optic backbone network. Nigeria’s National Broadband Carrier Network Project includes 14,000 km of fiber-optic network infrastructure linked through regional network owners to enable advanced communications to all regions of the country.
August 26, 2011
Hibernia Media, a subsidiary of transatlantic bandwidth provider Hibernia Atlantic that supplies managed video transport, has installed optical transport equipment from Ekinops to carry uncompressed, high-definition video signals at its New York City Content Exchange Center (CEC).
August 25, 2011
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) says that Polish Telecom (Telekomunikacja Polska, or TP Group) will deploy the systems supplier’s Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System and Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers as part of an optical network upgrade.