Comcast moves forward with DOCSIS 4.0

Comcast will begin rolling out DOCSIS 4.0 to select neighborhoods in Colorado Springs next week and to areas of Atlanta and Philadelphia before the end of the year.Comcast’s path to DOCSIS 4.0 leverages “Full Duplex” technology which uses the same network spectrum to  increase upstream speeds without sacrificing downstream speeds.Symmetrical 10 Gbps service based on fiber-to-the-home technology is already available in all of Comcast’s markets,...

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Preview of OCP Summit 2023

OCP Summit 2023 in San Jose will showcase the latest innovations in data center technology.Cliff Grossner, VP Market Intelligence and Innovation from Open Compute Project, provides a preview:- Discover the latest AI-related innovations and information, as OCP continues to focus on creating sustainable, large-scale computational infrastructures specifically tuned for AI.- Learn about the critical projects underway, including those exploring optical...

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MEF: Industry Pivot to NaaS

MEF has just published a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) Industry Blueprint designed to help service providers develop, market, and deliver the next generation of NaaS offerings. Does this represent the biggest challenge for MEF so far? Is it a pivot point for the industry?Kevin Vachon, COO from MEF, explains:- The recent MEF's Global NaaS event marked a pivotal point for the industry, with MEF going big with NaaS. The event brought together various...

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HiWire Consortium to standardize CXL via Active Electrical Cables and optics

The HiWire Consortium is announcing a new effort to standardize CXL Active Electrical Cables and optics.CXL is expected to enable servers to dramatically expand memory footprints and to share compute, memory and storage resources across rack and row scale installations at line rate. However, existing passive copper connectivity solutions will not scale to meet this opportunity as they are too short, too bulky and provide insufficient signal...

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Colt tests 800G with Nokia's PSE-6s Coherent Optics

Colt Technology Services completed a long-haul production network trial achieving 800G line capacity over a 1,500 Km network connecting Madrid, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal. The trial, which leveraged Nokia’s sixth generation super-coherent Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s), was deployed over real-world conditions, including aerial fibre cables, as an alien wavelength, over 22 spans involving ROADMs in CDC configuration.Rafael DeFermin, SVP Network...

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SUBCO deploys Ciena GeoMesh Extreme on Oman-Australia Cable

SUBCO is deploying tye Ciena GeoMesh Extreme, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme in the 6500 Packet-Optical Platforonce, to provide a resilient and reliable undersea corridor between Australia and Europe via the Oman Australia Cable (OAC). OAC has now increased its capacity to a maximum of 48 Tbps, helping support increased bandwidth demands.Launched for commercial service in November 2022, OAC is a 9,800km submarine cable connecting Muscat, Oman, and...

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Nokia ships 25G PON sealed fiber access node for cable operators

Nokia announced availability of its 25G PON technology on the Lightspan SF-8M sealed fiber access node for cable operators. The sealed remote Optical Line Terminal (OLT) also concurrently supports both GPON and XGS-PON. Based on the Nokia Quillion chipset, the Lightspan SF-8M supports eight GPON, XGS-PON, or multi-PON ports, or four 25G PON ports. It features flexible powering options including power-over-coax, AC, DC, or RFT-V. The Lightspan...

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