Oclaro and Huawei Collaborate on Petabit Photonic Cross Connect

Oclaro has supplied ultra-fast switching lasers to Huawei for development of its Petabit Photonic Cross-Connect (PPXC), which performs petabit OTN switching with fine granularity. The companies said agile and ultra-large capacity OTN switching is a promising technology for future optical networks. "Fast tunable lasers have great potential in Huawei's future optical network architectures and we are excited to see that Oclaro has successfully developed...

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Calient Introduces 320-Port Photonic Switch

CALIENT Technologies introduced a new 320-port photonic switch designed for data center applications. The new S320, which leverages the company's patented 3D microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switching technology, can be used to create a scalable, flexible, switched network fabric, with total throughput of 3.2 TB that connects top-of-rack switches and core routers. CALIENT’s enabling technology is a three-dimensional array of silicon micro mirrors...

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Intel Unwraps New Xeon Processors for the Data Center

Intel unveiled its Xeon processor E5-2600 product family aimed at high-performance servers supporting cloud applications in next-gen data centers.Highlights of the Xeon E5-2600s include:Up to eight cores per processor Up to 768GB of system memoryIncreased performance by up to 80 percent, compared to the previous-generation Intel Xeon processor 5600 series.Support for Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel Virtualization...

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Huawei Shows 400G and Peta-bit Cross-Connect

At this week's OFC/NFOEC 2012 Conference in Los Angeles, Huawei is showcasing ultra long-haul (UHL) 100G optical transport, next gen 400G, and its Petabit Cross-Connect technology.Some highlights:100G Coherent Solutions with Hard-Decision Forward Error Correction (HD-FEC) and improved performance Soft-Decision Forward Error Correction (SD-FEC) for high-capacity, Ultra Long-Haul (ULH) applications;Next-generation 400G technology providing a sneak-peek...

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Verizon Launches Residential Broadband over LTE

Verizon Wireless introduced HomeFusion Broadband: a new service that provides high-speed in-home Internet access over its 4G LTE network. Verizon believes the service will appeal in areas with limited broadband options. The LTE connection is delivered to a cylinder-shaped antenna which transmits the signal to a broadband router inside the home. The antenna is professionally installed at the customer's home. The design includes multiple internal...

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NSN to Transfer Some Assets to Tieto

Tieto and Nokia Siemens Networks announced a deal on the planned outsourcing of part of the maintenance, technical support and R&D for Nokia Siemens Networks’ mobile network Operations Support System (OSS) and Subscriber Data Management (SDM) activities in Finland. As part of the planned outsourcing, approximately 240 employees who are working primarily in R&D in Tampere and Espoo will also transfer to Tieto as existing employees. The planned transaction will strengthen Tieto’s position as an outsourcing provider of both R&D and IT...

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FBI Makes Key Arrests in LulzSec Case

Five computer hackers in the United States and abroad were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from computer hacking conspiracy, fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and other offenses. Those arrested include principle members of "Anonymous" and "LulzSec". In addition, Hector Xavier Monsegur, also know as "Sabu", "Xavier DeLeon", or "Leon", pled guilty on August 15, 2011 in U.S. District Court to a 12-count information charging him with computer hacking conspiracies and...

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Alcatel-Lucent Pushes Ahead to 400 Gbps

Alcatel-Lucent unveiled its Photonic Service Engine (PSE), a new chip for coherent optical networking that supports data rates of 400 Gbps.The new chip, which is being demonstrated at this week's OFC/NFOEC Conference in Los Angeles, brings substantial improvements to 100G optical coherent networks while laying the foundation for 400 Gbps line rates. The faster silicon enables far superior processing for a number of key optical functions, including...

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