Corning's RocketRibbon cable packs 3,456 fibers

Corning unveiled a new "RocketRibbon" extreme-density fiber cable for data center and carrier environments. RocketRibbon cables deliver up to 3,456 fibers in the same diameter as existing central and stranded tube cables. Corning is using a proprietary manufacturing process to create as many as 12 individually protected sub-units, each with 288 closely packed fibers. An extruded color-coded jacket protects and identifies each bundle and allows for...

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Reliance JIO and Cisco collaborate on Multi-Access Edge Computing

Cisco and Reliance Jio are collaborating in multi-access edge computing. The companies are developing a use case to optimize and enhance video experience over the network by building a mobile content delivery network (CDN). In this concept, the CDN is integrated into the mobile LTE network with edge caches in close proximity to the mobile users. The idea with a mobile CDN is for the mobile operator to deliver content via edge cloudlets to provide...

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VPIphotonics updates Design Suite for coherent M-QAM and PAM-M

VPIphotonics announced the latest release of its VPIphotonics Design Suite for optical components and transmission systems. Version 9.9 comes with enhancements of the user interface and tools operation, as well as advances in simulation capabilities, such as new design and analysis tools for coherent M-QAM and direct-detection PAM-M systems, new and enhanced DSP and coding functionalities, extended library of PIC elements and instrumentations, to...

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IDT develops 64G Linear Driver for Coherent Optical

Integrated Device Technology introduced a 64 Gbaud quad-channel linear optical modulator driver in a 14mm x 9.1mm Surface Mount Technology (SMT) package for 400G/600G coherent applications. The device can be used in line cards and CFP2 pluggable modules to bring next-generation 400G/600G products to the coherent market. The IDT GX66473 supports 64Gbaud 16QAM and 64QAM to address the needs of both 400G and 600G systems, and has differential input...

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ZTE enhances core router with Bit Indexed Explicit Replication

ZTE has enhanced its ZXR10 T8000 core router with the addition of Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) technology -- an industry first according to the company, and useful for balancing SDN backbone network traffic. ZTE describes BIER as a simplified multicast packet forwarding technology that does not require complex multicast protocols and multicast forwarding tables. It can efficiently distribute multicast packets only by switching the messages...

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Netsparker raises $40 million for its web security software

Netsparker, a start-up based in the U.K., raised $40 million in venture funding for its web application security scanning software. The funding round was led by Turn/River Capital, a San Francisco-based growth and private equity fund focused on enterprise software companies. Netsparker says its solution can identify security flaws in any type of website, web application and web service. Netsparker’s Proof-Based Scanning Technology automatically...

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