Tag: ciena

October 8, 2020

Two contract wins, a new CEO, and a new data center, not necessarily in that order: Ciena has won some business over in the Philippines this week. Yesterday they announced that Converge ICT is deploying their tunable 400G WaveLogic Ai […]

August 10, 2020

Windstream has picked Ciena for the build-out of its new nationwide optical network, which is slated for turn up in the third quarter of this year. Windstream’s new network, which is called the National Converged Optical Network (NCON), will hook-up […]

June 26, 2020

Ciena has won another convert to its next generation 600g/800G technology. The Russian-based operator GlobalNet has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme to increase speeds and efficiency on its network. That includes upgrading a Moscow/St. Petersburg link to 600Gbps and using […]

May 12, 2020

NJFX has some new connectivity to report down on the Jersey Shore. Cogent Communications has established a presence at the company’s data center campus in Wall, NJ. Cogent operates a top-5 global backbone that spans 58K intercity route miles backed […]

April 23, 2020

Ciena’s Blue Planet is contributing some new code to the Linux Foundation’s Open Networking Automation Platform Policy Framework. The additional functionality is aimed at giving service providers who use ONAP more flexibility in administering intent-based policies. In parallel, they are […]

March 3, 2020

Ciena has done two powerful demos of its WaveLogic 5 Extreme technology in the last few days. On Friday, they teamed up with Verizon to test 800Gbps over a single wavelength on Verizon’s live fiber network. Juniper’s QFX 5220 packet […]

February 28, 2020

Working in tandem with Ciena and Juniper Networks, Verizon recently completed a test that pushed 800 Gbps of data across a single fiber wavelength. Verizon’s 800G trial on its live fiber network was notable because it showed equipment interoperability from […]

February 20, 2020

Ciena has added some muscle to its portfolio for 5G. They have added 5G-optimized routers with an open network sliceing-capable architecture to support converged xHaul transport, and enhance their Blue Plant software automation platform with network slicing and dynamic planning […]

February 18, 2020

The Europe-India Gateway cable system has been upgraded with some help from Ciena. EIG spans 15,000km between Mumbai and multiple European destinations, hooking up many Middle East ports along the way. Using Ciena’s GeoMesh solution, the cable can now utilize […]

January 21, 2020

Equinix may be getting some new submarine cable connectivity out in APAC soon. RTI Connectivity has picked Equinix data centers for two endpoints of new JGA cable system they are building between Japan and Australia via Guam. JGA North will […]

November 26, 2019

Avelacom has found some new exchanges to hook up to its ultra low latency network. They have launched a multi-cloud solution enabling traders to connect up to cryptocurrency exchanges hosted within the big public clouds (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon […]

November 21, 2019

AT&T is out of the starter blocks for 400G with an optical connection carrying live traffic between Dallas and Atlanta. AT&T said the 400-gigabit optical connection was the first of its kind in the industry, as most vendors are targeting […]

October 28, 2019

AM Property Holding Corp said this morning that it has completed a refinancing for 1025OCR out on Long Island. The 200K square foot Technology Center and its 1025Connect data center now has a new $21M credit facility, with which it […]

October 16, 2019

ExteNet is taking its wireless infrastructure business into new territory. They are deploying a CBRS network on the 3.5Ghz band for Mile High Networks, one of the first commercial networks using this shared spectrum band. Mile High serves Arizona’s Yavapai […]

October 8, 2019

Blue Planet on Tuesday trotted out a new inventory automation solution that gives service providers a holistic view of their network and service inventory. With the unified network view, Blue Planet’s Inventory and Network Synchronization (INS) solution enables real-time planning, […]

October 4, 2019

Ciena has made another inorganic move on the software side of things. Yesterday the optical networking vendor announced its intent to acquire Centina. Centina’s expertise lies in service assurance analytics and network performance management solutions. Ciena plans to integrate the […]

September 18, 2019

Megaport has expanded its virtual routing services. The Megaport Cloud Router now enables private, on-demand connections out of 19 metro areas on four continents and into and between over 130 cloud on-ramps globally. They are targeting the service at hybrid […]

August 2, 2019

Ciena will deliver a new regional fiber network across 10 Colorado counties, the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments (NWCCOG) announced yesterday. More than 230,000 residents may gain access to higher bandwidth through this new offering. The coverage area in northwest […]

July 26, 2019

MTA Fiber Holdings is tapping into Ciena for the build-out of a long-haul fiber network that will connect Alaska to the lower 48 states. MTA Fiber Holdings will be using Ciena’s 5170 Service Aggregation Switch and 6500 Packet-Optical platform to […]

April 29, 2019

FiberLight has picked Ciena’s Blue Planet for automation. They are deploying Blue Planet Inventory and Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration in order to enhance turn-up and delivery of on-demand services. FiberLight operates 14,000 route miles of metro and regional fiber […]