NTT Communications Upgrades Transpacific Cable to 100G

NTT Communications announced the world’s first deployment of 100 Gbps digital coherent technology on a transpacific submarine cable system linking the U.S. and Japan. The design capacity of the company’s PC-1 system has now been boosted by more than 2.5 times to 8.4 Tbps. NTT Comm said the upgrade was made possible by optically optimizing the PC-1’s network architecture, including with strategically placed optical repeaters and an enhanced optical...

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ITU-T Approves G.fast Broadband over Copper

The ITU-T Study Group 15 has granted first stage approval to G.fast (ITU-T G.9700), a new broadband over copper standard that promises up to 1 Gbps rates over copper lines at a distance of up to 250 meters.  G.fast, which is a successor to ADSL and VDSL technologies, uses 100 MHz wide channels. In addition, G.fast will enable self-installation by consumers without a technician’s assistance. The ITU-T said the G.fast effort has attracted active...

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Alcatel-Lucent Sets Optical Transmission Record - 31 Tbps over 7,200 km

Alcatel-Lucent announced a new performance/distance record for optical transmission. Researchers from Bell Labs have successfully sent 31 Terabits-per-second (Tbps) over a single fiber over a distance of 7200 km.  The test achieved with a distance between amplifiers of 100 km. The test used 200 Gbps single-carrier data channels in a DWDM system with 155 channels in a 50 GHz frequency grid. Details of the experiment were presented in a post-deadline...

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Avago's 28nm SerDes Hits 32 Gbps

Avago Technologies's new 28nm Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) core has achieved 32 Gbps performance while withstanding up to 40 dB of channel loss. The company says this level of performance will redefine the data rate feasibility for chip-to-chip, portside and backplane interfaces. The new 28-nm Avago SerDes cores feature a unique decision feedback equalization (DFE) architecture, resulting in a number of key performance differentiators such...

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CloudVelocity Raises $13 Million for AWS Hybrid Cloud Migration Tool

CloudVelocity, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $13 million in Series B funding for its cloud migration software. CloudVelocity, which emerged out of stealth mode in December 2012, has just released its One Hybrid Cloud software, which makes Amazon Web Services (AWS) a secure and seamless extension of enterprise data centers.  The automated cloud migration and disaster recovery software lets enterprises run their existing...

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AT&T Next Expands Smartphone Financing Options

AT&T is preparing to launch a smartphone upgrade program that lets customers upgrade once per year with no down payment, no activation fee, no upgrade fee and no financing fees. AT&T Next allows customers purchase a smartphone or tablet with no down payment and agree to pay monthly installments for the device. After 12 payments, they can trade it in and upgrade to a brand new device — again with no down payment — or they can keep using their...

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Zayo Builds Out Network in San Diego

Zayo is adding over 5,000 fiber miles to its metro network in the San Diego market, adding capacity on existing routes, as well as extending into the surrounding communities of Oceanside, Encinitas, Del Mar and Escondido. The new network will provide access to important carrier, healthcare, technology, energy and government locations. http://www.zayo....

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