July 23, 2011
French broadband Internet service provider (ISP) Celeste selected the Tellabs 7100 Nano Optical Transport System (OTS) to expand its fiber-optic network to all major cities in France and to respond to high bandwidth demand from business customers.
July 23, 2011
"We have a great opportunity to share our engineering and network expertise with JANET(UK), and this teamwork gives the U.K. academic community an opportunity to use the latest technology available in the marketplace"
July 22, 2011
Nokia Siemens Networks says it will deploy a 5,000-km optical network for China Unicom that initially will support data rates as high as 40 Gbps per wavelength. However, the network will be 100-Gbps ready across the seven provinces of Chongqing, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi.
July 22, 2011
The Defense Information System Agency (DISA) has awarded Intellifiber Networks, a subsidiary of PAETEC Holding Corp. (NASDAQ GS:PAET), a Department of Defense to supply fiber services to the Defense Enterprise Computing System (DECC), located at the Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, PA.
July 22, 2011
Verizon has supplied technical expertise to JANET, the provider of the U.K.'s JANET research and education network, with the goal of enabling JANET’s users to leverage 100-Gbps transmission capabilities. JANET announced 100-Gbps capabilities for the JANET optical network.
July 22, 2011
Fujitsu is touting the results of a research report by Network Strategy Partners that finds Fujitsu’s implementation of Connection-Oriented Ethernet (COE), called Ethernet Tag Switching, offers a 32 percent savings in operations expense (opex) over five years versus MPLS-TP.