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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 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 06.07.07
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
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 05.16.07
Huawei Technologies and Global Marine Systems, a subsea cable installation and maintenance company, have announced they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the intent to establish a joint venture (JV) to deliver end-to-end submarine network solutions to reliably deliver global communication capabilities. Industry analysts forecast a huge year in 2007 with at least 20 new supply contracts expected to be awarded totaling nearly 100,000 route-kilometers - largely driven by two transpacific cable projects and a number of medium-sized (2,000-10,000 kilometer) systems. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a turnkey contract with Australia’s telecommunication company Telstra to lay a new submarine cable network directly linking Sydney to Hawaii. With completion scheduled in the second half of 2008, the Sydney-Hawaii submarine network will deliver a capacity of 1.28 Tbit/s. Filed under: Uncategorized and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Optium Corporation, a supplier of optical subsystems for the telecom and cable TV industries, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Kailight Photonics, Inc., a provider of 40Gb/s optical transmission products including 300 Pin 40Gb/s transceivers. The purchase price is USD $25 million and $5 million for financial performance milestones. Filed under: Uncategorized Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.20.07
A new report by Dell’Oro Group, reveals that worldwide sales of Optical Transport equipment reached the highest level in 5 years during the fourth quarter of 2006. WDM system sales grew 42 percent year-over-year and accounted for all of the market increase. “Within WDM Metro we see increasing interest for Multi-haul systems, as their range of flexibility provides another key feature in addition to their high bandwidth capabilities,” Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.16.07
Transmode, the Optical Pioneer, and channel partner Arcadiz, has announced that Brutélé, the Belgian Cable TV operator, has successfully deployed the Transmode C/DWDM metro networking platform to support its Triple Play services infrastructure. Filed under: Uncategorized and CWDM Systems and New WDM Deployments 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 12.05.06
Component and subsystem manufacturer JDSU has announced that it has shipped its 10,000 ROADM. "To put this in perspective, it represents the majority of overall ROADM deployment and the significant role ROADMs play in helping service providers build agile optical networks," said Daryl Inniss, vice president, Communications Components, for Ovum-RHK.
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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 11.03.06
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 10.19.06
NEC Corporation has announced that it has completed the second phase of a telecommunications and broadcasting yen-loan-financing project to improve and expand the country-wide telecommunications and broadcasting network in Uzbekistan. This approximately 10 billion-yen project consists of the construction of a 3,487km-long fiber optical network with transmission systems and 41stations/ 89bases for TV broadcasting, covering the entire nation. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.09.06
Pirelli Broadband Solutions has announced the launch of its Light Wavelength Division Multiplexing platform. The platform expands on the Pirelli City8™ Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) platform by adding low-end Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) capability. This combination supports six CWDM wavelengths, each operating at 2.5Gbit/s, and 16 DWDM wavelengths, each operating at 2.5 or 10Gbit/s, for a total capacity of 175Gbit/s on a single platform. The DWDM channels support optical amplification, allowing links of up to 200km without the use of dispersion-compensation. Filed under: Uncategorized and CWDM Systems and DWDM Systems Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.04.06
Alcatel has announced that it has signed a turnkey contract valued at EUR 42 millions with the Post & Telecommunications Office (OPT) of New Caledonia to rollout Gondwana-1, a submarine cable network connecting New Caledonia and Australia. Alcatel will deploy its new-generation dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) submarine line terminal - the Alcatel 1620 Light Manager (LM), its cables and repeaters. Furthermore, Alcatel will install its Optical Multi-Service Node (OMSN) systems to connect the network’s landing stations. The equipment will be managed by the Alcatel 1350 management suite, which optimizes bandwidth usage for fast and reliable broadband service rollout. Filed under: Uncategorized and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.31.06
A new report by Dell’Oro Group, states that worldwide sales of Optical Transport equipment reached $2.3 billion in the second quarter of 2006—the highest quarterly results since the fourth quarter of 2001—primarily on strong WDM sales. Worldwide sales for WDM equipment grew 35 percent in the second quarter year-over-year with the majority of the growth coming from North America and the EMEA regions. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.13.06
ECI Telecom has announced that it has signed a new contract with the largest cable operator in Romania, RCS & RDS, for the upgrade and expansion of its optical network. Under the contract, ECI is upgrading the national network between all the major cities in Romania, creating a new regional network in Moldova and connecting Hungary to Romania. The network is based on 10G DWDM technology. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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