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Posted on 09.13.07
Infinera has announced that North China Grid Company (NCGC) Limited has selected Infinera for a next generation communication network providing connectivity for the power grid’s operations throughout the North China region. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.06.07
FLAG Telecom has announced it has signed a multi-million dollar turnkey contract with Fujitsu for the construction of FLAG NGN cable, a multi-terabit, DWDM submarine cable system. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.04.07
ECI Telecom has announced today that Viettel has selected ECI’s optical and broadband access solutions to expand their network in Vietnam. Filed under: Uncategorized and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.04.07
Infinera has announced that North China Grid Company (NCGC) Limited has selected Infinera for a next generation communication network providing connectivity for the power grid’s operations throughout the North China region. Filed under: Uncategorized and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.06.07
XO Communications has selected Infinera for a capacity addition to its nationwide network to meet demand for bandwidth. The expansion announced today, including 800 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) of additional capacity on coast-to-coast routes, represents a 200% increase in network capacity. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.06.07
Infinera has announced that Cox Communications, the third-largest cable company in the U.S., has selected an Infinera Digital Optical Network for its national transport network. The 12,000-mile Cox national build extends from coast to coast and is designed to enable Cox to offer … services including voice, video, data, and wireless to residential and business customers. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.28.07
Ekinops, a provider of optical transport and DWDM solutions, has announced that a French CLEC, e-téra, has deployed the Ekinops optical transport platform to expand its national network. Ekinops was able to provide a simple solution to connect several POPs (points of presence) of e-téra in the southwest of France using advanced technologies that carry 40G capacity today and are ready for 80G traffic bi-directionally on a single fiber for several links reaching 300 km distances each. Filed under: Uncategorized and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.26.07
German service provider EWE TEL has selected Infinera as the optical backbone for EWE TEL’s network. EWE TEL uses its own telecommunications network, which spans approximately 25,000 kilometers, to provide its services to customers in more than 350 cities and municipalities in the federal states of Lower Saxony and Brandenburg and in the city state of Bremen. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Emery Telecommunications & Video Selects ECI Telecom to Build a ROADM Network for Utah Fiber Network
Posted on 06.20.07
ECI Telecom has announced todaythat Emery Telecommunications & Video (ETV), a subsidiary of Emery Telcom (an Independent Local Exchange Carrier, ILEC) and a member of Utah Fiber Networks, LLC (UFN), has selected ECI Telecom’s ROADM and Converged Multi-Service Transport Platform (MSTP) for a statewide fiber transport network. Filed under: ROADMs and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.15.07
Internet2 has announced that the first East to West Coast span on its new nationwide 100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) network has been completed and is providing production IP and circuit services. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.15.07
Deltacom a provider of communications services to customers in the southeastern United States, has selected an Infinera Digital Optical Network for its regional network. Based in Huntsville, Alabama, Deltacom provides a broad range of services over its 15,500 route-mile managed fiber optic network. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
Swedish telco Tele2 is working with Nokia Siemens Networks to build a pan-European Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) network with capacity of 40Gbps. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
ADVA Optical Networking has announced that Neuf Cegetel, an alternative carrier in France, is using the ADVA Fiber Service Platform to expand its optical metro core and regional networks. The product is deployed from the access network for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) backhaul into Neuf Cegetel’s regional links, which range in length from 50km to 500km and that can now transport data streams of up to 10Gbit/s Ethernet. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
Verizon Business will add 6,000 more miles to its ultra long haul (ULH) network this year, surpassing the halfway point in the company’s multiyear plan to deploy a 50,000-mile all-optical transport network across the United States. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.07.07
Wall Street West, a federal and state-funded program created to develop a total back-up solution for New York City financial institutions in the event of disaster, has announced an agreement for Level 3 Communications to build a fiber optic network connecting lower Manhattan with northeastern Pennsylvania. Filed under: Uncategorized and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.05.07
The State of New Mexico General Services Department, Communications Division has selected Infinera to provide an optical network connecting the major state and local government, research, and educational facilities throughout the state. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.05.07
Alcatel-Lucent has signed contracts with a value of approx 25 million Euros with Nextgen Networks, a provider of data services in Australia, to supply WDM, SDH and Ethernet/MPLS equipment and provide Network Operation Center services for its optical network. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.05.07
Choice Cable TV, a cable multiple systems operator (MSO) in 30 municipalities in Puerto Rico, has chosen OpVista’s Carrier Ethernet Transport Platform as the basis of a point-to-multipoint, 40-wavelength / 400-Gbit/sec DWDM backbone network. Filed under: Uncategorized and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.04.07
BTI Photonic Systems Inc., a supplier of microWDM networking solutions, has announced it placed 5th in the 19th Annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine. Further numbers from Ottawa Business Journal: Ottawa-based BTI Photonics ranked fifth on the list of top performers with revenue growth between 2001 and 2006 of 5,607 per cent to $12.5 million, despite operating at a loss. Exports for the company represented 95 per cent of sales, and employment grew to 69 staff from 29 employees. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.04.07
This NY Times article summarizers the current projects to link East African countries to the rest of the world with undersea fiber optic cables. Drivers for the push are also discussed: At the moment, the Indian Ocean’s eastern African seabed is the only one in the world without a submarine fiber-optic cable, forcing the region to rely heavily on limited and expensive satellite links. As a result, countries along the coast and in its hinterland have some of the highest communications costs in the world. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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