Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers At AT&T Bell Labs: A Paced Odyssey By Emmanuel Desurvire Foreward by Josè Chesnoy May 21, 2018 Foreward Three inventions have made possible the advent of long-haul optical communications: fused-silica fibers, semiconductor lasers, and last but none the least, Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA). The EDFA is one of the most revolutionary [...]
GlobeNet Strengthens its Latin American Submarine Network with Ciena Ciena Press Release May 15, 2018 HANOVER, Md. — GlobeNet, a wholesale provider of telecom infrastructure in the Americas, has selected Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) technology to deliver 200G wavelengths along its 23,500 km fiber optic subsea cable system across the Americas. The deployment will help GlobeNet [...]
Ciena Upgrades Caucasus Online’s Black Sea Fibre Optic Network Ciena Press Release May 15, 2018 HANOVER, Maryland — Caucasus Online has selected Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) to enhance its Black Sea fibre optic network to realize an increase in data transfer capacity of up to 5 Tbps. By deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine solution with high-density [...]
NEC Brings AI To Submarine Cable Networks NEC Press Release May 15, 2018 Tokyo, Japan and Princeton, NJ, U.S.A. - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today successful transmission tests that took place over a commercial subsea cable measuring more than 10,000 kilometers using artificial intelligence (AI) and probabilistic shaping at a modulation of 64QAM. NEC, [...]
RCom-GCX, PrimeTel Strengthen Partnership To Upgrade Subsea Cable System By Muntazir Abbas, India Times May 8, 2018 NEW DELHI: Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCom) and Cyprus-based telecom service provider PrimeTel Tuesday further enhanced their partnership with a 100Gbps upgrade to GCX’s HAWK subsea cable system branch into Cyprus. This network [...]
C&W Networks Improves Network Optimization of Pan-Caribbean Backbone With Coriant mTera Universal Transport Platform Coriant Press Release May 7, 2018 CHICAGO - INTERNATIONAL TELECOMS WEEK (ITW) - Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled end-to-end packet optical networking and DCI solutions, today announced that C&W Networks, a Liberty Latin America company, has deployed the Coriant mTera® [...]
TE SubCom Announces Ocean Control Suite, First Offering Of Full Network Programmability For Undersea Domain TE SubCom Press Release May 8, 2018 EATONTOWN, New Jersey, USA – TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, today announced the introduction of its Ocean Control suite. This technology represents a [...]
OFS Expands Ultra Long Haul Product Line with Introduction of TeraWave® SCUBA 125 Optical Fiber OFS Press Release March 12, 2018 SAN DIEGO, California - OFC 2018, Booth 3339 - OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products announces an expansion of our ocean product portfolio with the introduction of [...]
Xtera Announces Successful Completion of Interoperability Testing With Infinera Xtera Press Release February 19, 2018 Harold Wood, London – Xtera®, a provider of innovative subsea fibre optic solutions, today announces the successful completion of interoperability testing with Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks. By connecting Infinera’s SLTE solution to an Xtera line system, the laboratory [...]
Ciena GeoMesh Extreme Helps Operators Double Capacity Ciena Press Release January 22, 2018 HANOVER, Maryland — Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is introducing new capabilities that allow submarine cable operators to better address surging bandwidth demand driven by video-centric streaming, virtual reality, the Internet of Things, and future applications such as 5G. Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine solution [...]
