Blueprint: The Age of Swiss Army Knife Transponder

by Dr. Danish Rafique and Dr. Maxim Kuschnerov, Coriant What does the term flexibility signify for the optical transport business? In today’s market space, this is a challenging question, as the degrees of freedom are practically limitless. Over the last decades, the industry has exclusively focused primarily on increasing transport bandwidth or overall capacity per fiber. However, simple bit loading beyond 100G interfaces has resulted in significantly...

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OpenStack Liberty Release Enhances Manageability & Scalability

The OpenStack Foundation announced the 12th version of the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds. The OpenStack Liberty release, which is now available for download, brings a number of key improvements, including finer-grained management controls, performance enhancements for large deployments and more powerful tools for managing new technologies like containers in production environment. Some highlights: Enhanced Manageability...

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Nokia Lands Big TD-LTE-Advanced deal with China Mobile

China Mobile has awarded a contract to Nokia Networks to deploy one million TD-LTE base stations by the end of 2015. The contract further expands its TD-LTE footprint with deployment of Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Stations across the country, supporting 18 provinces and mega cities including Beijing, Guangdong and Shanghai. Nokia Networks is now the largest non-Chinese vendor. The new deal marks the third phase of an ongoing TD-LTE deployment with...

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Accton Contributes Design of 100 Gigabit Ethernet Switch to OCP

Accton Technology Corp. will open source through the Open Compute Project (OCP) the design of its AS7500-32X 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) open network switch, the first switch design contributed to OCP based on the Cavium XPliant switch ASIC. The AS7500-32X Cavium-based switch design uses the same physical switch packaging, including x86 CPU processor modules, power supplies, fans and enclosure, as the AS7700-32X 100GbE switch design which Accton...

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Menara Ships 120 km 10 Gbps Transceivers with OTN & FEC

Menara Networks introduced an optical transceiver based on its OTN “System-in-module” DWDM XFP platform and featuring up to 120 km reach with integrated Forward Error Correction and advanced monitoring capabilities. Menara said it achieves 120 km reach on standard single mode fiber without the need for optical amplification and/or dispersion compensation. The unamplified 120 km reach is achieved as a result of Menara’s superior performance of its...

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Ericsson Announces 802.11ac Cable Wi-Fi AP

Ericsson introduced the first 802.11ac Wave 2 access point.  The new Ericsson AP 6335 strand-mounted cable access point uses a DOCSIS modem for backhaul and multi-user MIMO for increased network capacity. It mounts directly on the hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) line to connect both power and backhaul. The AP 6335, part of Ericsson’s leading small cell portfolio, enables network deployment flexibility through standards-based protocols including Passpoint...

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Ericsson to acquire Ericpol, a Software Developer

Ericsson will acquire Ericpol, a software developer with operations in Poland and Ukraine. Ericpol, which has approximately 2,000 employees, has been a supplier to Ericsson for over 20 years. Ericsson has been its largest customer by far. http://www.ericsson....

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