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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 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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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
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 06.04.07
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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Posted on 05.23.07
Vietnam Post and Telecommunications (VNPT), the country’s dominant carrier, is using a Nortel optical solution to double the capacity of its national optical backbone. VNPT is upgrading its 3,000 km north-south optical transmission network from 20 Gbps to 40 Gbps. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.23.07
Ericsson has been selected by Italian internet provider Wind as a provider for metro and core optical transport technology. The contract awarded to Ericsson includes a DWDM (Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing) solution to increase transmission capacity of 1600km of existing fiber cables. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.23.07
Transmode, a provider of Optical Networking solutions, together with channel partner FCA, have announced that Exatel, Poland’s second largest Service Provider, has selected the Transmode TS-Series platform for deployments across its entire Polish metro networking environment. Initially supporting low cost CWDM wavelengths, the system has the scalability to extend to additional CWDM and DWDM wavelengths in-service. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.22.07
According to Lightwave: "Hibernia Atlantic … and Huawei Technologies USA (search for ), announced today that Hibernia Atlantic has selected Huawei to further upgrade its 24,520-km submarine and terrestrial network throughout the U.S, Canada, UK, and Europe. Additionally, Hibernia has named Huawei the provider of choice for the submarine segments of its fiber-optic cable routes. Huawei’s … network solutions enable Hibernia’s system to grow to 80 wavelengths at 10 Gigabits supporting SONET/SDH and LAN-PHY services." Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.18.07
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a contract with Brasil Telecom GlobeNet, who owns and operates GlobeNet - a submarine network serving the Americas - to upgrade the existing 22,000 km system linking the United States with Latin America. Alcatel-Lucent will upgrade the submarine section, along with the respective landing points, linking Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza), Venezuela (Maiquetía), Bermuda (St.David’s), and USA (Boca Raton, FL and Tuckerton, NJ). In Rio de Janeiro, the submarine network integrates with the terrestrial optical infrastructure of GlobeNet’s parent company, Brasil Telecom(Bovespa: BRTO3/BRT04 and NYSE: BTM). When completed in the first quarter of 2008, the project will almost double the existing capacity over the entire network. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.16.07
Fujitsu has announced that it has signed the contract for the upgrade of the Japan-US Cable Network, a submarine fiber-optic cable system, with a consortium represented by seven telecommunications carriers, including AT&T Corp, KDDI Corporation, NTT Communications Corporation, Qwest Communications International Inc., Reach Global Networks Ltd, Softbank Telecom Corp., and Verizon Business. With this transpacific contract, Fujitsu’s submarine line terminal equipment will be implemented at three landing points each in Japan and the US. The equipment is capable of providing a significant capacity upgrade to existing systems, more than doubling the original design capacity of 640 gigabits per second (640 Gbps) of the Japan-US Cable Network beyond 1.28 terabits per second (1.28 Tbps). Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.09.07
Ericsson has been selected by Telecom Egypt to expand its transport network in the Nile delta area. The contract includes the delivery of Marconi MHL 3000 for DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) transport and Marconi OMS 1600 for multi-service aggregation solutions. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Ontario’s Optical Regional Advanced Network has finished a CDN $12 million upgarde of its optical network. The upgrade, which began late in 2005, expands ORION from about 4,300 km to about 5,800, using 320 km of fibre from North Bay to Peterborough and from St. Catharines to London. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
FPL FiberNet has selected the Infinera DTN system for its regional optical network in Florida. FPL has more than 2,500 route miles of high count fiber deployed throughout Florida, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.16.07
Asia Netcom has announced plans to add a new trans-Pacific portion to its regional submarine cable system, EAC. The 23,500 km infrastructure–EAC Pacific– will extend the existing infrastructure with a new trans-Pacific ring. The project, expected to be completed by July 2008, consists of a northern route connecting Japan to the US, and a southern route linking the Philippines to the US via Guam and Hawaii. The new EAC Pacific system will feature 4 fiber pairs, each capable of supporting a minimum design capacity of 2.56 Tbps (Terabits per second) using 64-wavelength DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) technology capable of transporting 10 Gbps per wavelength. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.28.06
ECI Telecom has announced that Beijing Power has chosen ECI to upgrade its optical communications network in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.22.06
Prysmian Cables & Systems, based in Italy, has signed a contract with Libyan Post, Telecommunication and Information Co. to supply 6300 km of fiber optic cable for a national communications backbone buildout. The cable, supplied through Italian main contractor SIRTI, will be produced at Prysmian’s Italian production facility at Livorno Ferraris in Italy and will contain from 24 to 96 optical fibers, depending on their location within the network. Installation of the cables will be completed in approximately 18 months, although the network will continue to evolve as other regions and cities are subsequently reached by fiber. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.08.06
Lucent Technologies has announced that Japan´s KDDI Corporation has selected Lucent to supply optical cross connect systems to support its international transport network. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.03.06
Rostelecom , Russia’s national long-distance telecommunications operator, and Beltelecom, the national telecommunications operator of Belarus, have completed cabling and joined optic fibers to construct an additional access line from Russia to Belarus. The throughput capacity of this high-speed terrestrial channel based on the DWDM and STM technology will be 400 Gbps. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.25.06
Internet2 and Ciena Corporation have announced a partnership to deploy Ciena’s Multiservice Switch in the new Internet2 nationwide advanced research and education network. Filed under: Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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