América Móvil and Telxius plan Tikal cable to Florida

América Móvil and Telxius are planning a subsea cable linking Guatemala and the United States. The cable, named AMX3 by América Móvil and Tikal by Telxius, will link Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) with Boca Raton (US) with an initial estimated capacity of 190 Tbps. An additional possible landing in Cancun (Mexico) is being considered.ASN has been chosen to build the cable and a supply contract is already in force. ASN will provides options to increase...

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UK's National Grid deploys EXFO for fiber monitoring

The UK's National Grid has selected EXFO to provide monitoring for its ongoing fiber network health assessment.National Grid has deployed an overhead fiber optic operational telecommunications network across its electricity transmission infrastructure that carries critical information essential for secure and efficient utility operations. EXFO will measure, analyze, and report results from an 80 km span of the National Grid network -- in one of the...

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Telefónica and Pontegadea increase their participation in Telxius

Telefónica and Pontegadea have acquired the 40% stake in Telxius Telecom, S.A. which to date was held by entities managed by KKR. Consequently, Telefónica and Pontegadea now own 70% and 30% of Telxius, respectively.Mario Martín, CEO of Telxius, said: “We are very proud of the decision of Telefónica and Pontegadea to strengthen their alliance and increase their participation in Telxius. The closing of this transaction encourages us to continue growing...

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POET develops 100G CWDM4 and 100G LR4 chip-on-board for ADVA

POET Technologies has developed multi-engine 100G CWDM4 and 100G LR4 chip-on-board solutions for its lead customer, ADVA Optical Networking SE.POET’s multi-engine transmit and receive chips will be used in a pluggable solution that packs the functionality of four independent 100Gbit/s interfaces into a single QSFP-DD housing.“ADVA’s MicroMux Quattro brings the industry’s smallest aggregation technology all the way to the network core. Engineered...

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Video: Multi-Cloud Flexibility for Telco Cloud and Edge (VMware)

 -- Check out our 2023 Telco Cloud and Edge Site --Download latest report on Telco Cloud at NextGenInfraThe advent of 5G is driving deep changes in the way that telcos deploy and manage their networks. Telco Cloud infrastructure must adopt a distributed, multi-cloud architecture. It must also be ready to leverage public cloud capabilities to benefit from new business opportunities.Here are the insider views of Ram Venketaramani, Senior Director,...

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OFS launches 150 W Raman fiber laser module

OFS is introducing a 150 W Raman Fiber Laser Module at the upcoming Photonics West Exposition in San Francisco from January 31 through February 2, 2023.Phil Familletti, OFS Product Manager, states "OFS has designed the Raman Fiber Laser Module to serve as an ideal high-brightness pump source for other fiber and solid-state lasers. The new 150 W, 1480 nm Raman Fiber Laser Module significantly pushes the performance of Raman lasers designed for pumping...

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