Windstream Wholesale and Infinera develop Node-on-a-Blade

Windstream Wholesale will transform its optical network infrastructure using an innovative Node-on-a-Blade jointly pioneered by Infinera and Windstream.The companies describe Node-on-a-Blade as the next evolution of ROADM-based solutions that will provide a more advanced and cost-effective approach to optical networking enabling deployment across a wider variety of network locations. Advanced capabilities include a coherent optical channel monitor...

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NeoPhotonics demos 120Gbaud InP-based coherent receiver/modulator

NeoPhotonics has used its Indium Phosphide-based Coherent Receiver and Coherent Modulators, coupled with its Ultra-Narrow Linewidth Tunable Lasers or Distributed Feedback Lasers, to demonstrate 120Gbaud operation in applications ranging from 800G LR transmission to 400G long haul transmission.The next-generation DSP baud rate will be based on 120+ Gbaud, and potential applications include 800LR (≤10km), 800ZR for DCI (≤100km), 800ZR+ for metro-core...

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Verizon teams with Celona on Private 5G

Verizon Business will integrate Celona's wireless private networking solution.The strategic partnership will focus on leveraging the power of Verizon’s On Site LTE and 5G network with Celona’s c5G LAN products. The joint offer will deliver an enterprise-friendly approach to private networks that is designed to meet growing demand for the reliable wireless performance, coverage and connectivity required by a new era of network-dependent business applications...

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Terabit BiDi MSA gets underway

A new Terabit Bidirectional (BiDi) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) group has been established to develop interoperable 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s optical interface specifications for parallel multimode fiber (MMF).The goal is to provide an upgrade path for the parallel MMF based 400 Gb/s BiDi to 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s. BiDi technology has already proven successful as a way of providing an upgrade path for installed duplex MMF links from 40 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s. The...

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SpaceX completes 9th launch of 2022

SpaceX launched 47 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the ninth SpaceX launch of 2022. It was also the 11th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched GPS III-3, Turksat-5A, Transporter 2, and now eight Starlink missions.The booster was recovered on a drone sh...

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Micron samples 176-layer NAND SSD for data centers

Micron Technology is sampling the  first vertically-integrated 176-layer NAND data center solid-state drive.The Micron 7450 SSD with NVMe achieves latency at or below 2 ms for 99.9999% QoS in common, mixed, random workloads— driving up performance in databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, RocksDB, Cassandra and Aerospike, among others. Compared to SATA SSDs, latency is reduced by nearly 50%, and read bandwidth is improved by...

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