Virgin Aims to Build Largest Satellite Constellation

Virgin outlined audacious plans to build, launch and operate the world’s largest satellite network. OneWeb Ltd. (previously WorldVu), a new venture backed by the Virgin Group and Qualcomm, will use Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne space plane to put 648 small satellites into low-Earth orbit. OneWeb Ltd. is headed by Greg Wyler, who founded O3b Networks in 2007. The company is believed to have acquired the satellite spectrum that was formerly owned...

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Infinera and Telstra Demo Submarine Super-Channel Transmission

Infinera and Telstra successfully demonstrated next generation super-channel technology across a submarine fiber cable. The test, which was conducted across 2,200 kilometers of Segment F of the Reach North Asia Loop (RNAL), included Polarization Multiplexed 8 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (PM-8QAM), and a range of advanced FlexCoherent modulation formats, along with transmitter and receiver-based signal processing technologies. Segment F runs...

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Axiom Fiber Networks Pulls 864-Strands through Manhattan

Axiom Fiber Networks, a new telecom infrastructure services provider, officially launched in New York City. Axiom will offer dark fiber to enterprise and carrier customers from its newly constructed network.  The company says it will be able to supply single pair to high fiber-counts along routes that link the key traffic exchanges in New York City. Axiom’s core network operates "within striking distance of every building in Midtown and Lower...

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Zayo Lays New Fiber from Salt Lake to Sacramento

Zayo has kicked off construction of a new fiber route from Salt Lake City to Sacramento, California. The network expansion will add more than 800 route miles to Zayo’s owned long haul network which spans more than 16,000 route miles across the United States and Europe. “This new, unique route is diverse from many other existing long haul networks and is driven by the ever-growing need to transport many terabytes of data across the US,” said Matt...

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Bell Labs Tunes its G.W.A.T.T. Energy Consumption Tool

Bell Labs released an updated version of its G.W.A.T.T. application, which helps operators plan for the energy consumption and efficiency of their networks. Version 2.0 of G.W.A.T.T. (Global ‘What if’ Analyzer of NeTwork Energy ConsumpTion) offers greater flexibility in the way operators model their network evolution.  It will also allow them to better understand the impact on network energy consumption, cost and carbon footprint from greater...

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Hibernia Upgrades Terrestrial Network with Ciena 6500

Hibernia Networks has activated service on six new long haul fiber routes in the Northeast United States. The new routes, which use Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, represent a multi-year effort to reduce latency and increase diversity of the largest capacity terrestrial component of Hibernia’s global network. Some highlights: Two completely diverse paths from Ashburn to Hibernia’s landings in Boston and Halifax with comparable latency More...

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Vodafone Hires Ericsson Exec to Serve as CTO

Vodafone announced the appointment for Johan Wibergh as CTO, replacing Steve Pusey, who is retiring. Wibergh currently serves as Executive Vice President and Head of the Networks segment at Ericsson. In this role, Johan Wibergh has led all aspects of business strategy, R&D, product management and sales for the segment, a business with €13 billion of annual revenues in 2013 and around 27,000 employees worldwide.  He joined Ericsson in 1996...

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