Blueprint column: Wavelength routing in the 400GE era

by Arnold Jansen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, NokiaThe introduction of 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) pluggable digital coherent optics (DCOs) has stirred up considerable debate about innovative approaches to metro access and metro/regional network design that blend IP and optical networking technologies in more optimal ways. The key question is how this technology can be leveraged to more cost-efficiently meet service-level requirements without...

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Prysmian's new cable layer ship: Leonardo da Vinci

Prysmian Group announced the delivery of its latest cable layer vessel, the Leonardo da Vinci. The ship was built by the Vard Group. It has a length of approximately 170m and a breadth of about 34m. It is capable of deep water installation at depths of more than 3,000m also thanks to a new generation cable technology armoured with lighter materials. The ship is equipped with 2 carousels of 7,000 and 10,000 tonnes. “Leonardo da Vinci...

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Cisco to acquire Epsagon for microservice observability

Cisco agreed to acquire Epsagon Ltd., a privately held, modern observability company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Financial terms were not disclosed.Epsagon offers a lightweight agent that can provide visualization of AWS and third-party (Auth0, Stripe) services automatically. Epsagon can integrate with a wide range of microservices-based environments including Kubernetes, ECS, EKS and serverless.Cisco's core SaaS solutions for full-stack...

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