Tag: optical transport

March 4, 2021

Spending on optical transport equipment dwindled during the fourth quarter of 2020, while the SD-WAN market boomed, according to figures just released by Dell’Oro Group. The findings may provide more evidence of the diversity of effects the Covid-19 pandemic has […]

February 5, 2021

Cisco is among the vendors that have tossed their hats into the ring for the Telecom Infra Project’s Phoenix project. The Phoenix project, which is a subset of the Telecom Infra Project’s open optical and packet transport (OOPT) group, is […]

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 […]

April 19, 2019

MEF plans to have its SD-WAN and LSO Sonata API standards published late in the second quarter of this year, along with a slate of other activities on tap throughout the remainder of the year. The forum is aligning various […]

January 4, 2019

In its first blog posting of the year, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) detailed the results of its fifth SDN proof of concept trial. The proof of concept (POC) trial was hosted by Telefónica in Munich, Germany, this past November. […]

December 5, 2018

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is taking another step forward by putting its four reference designs out for review. ONF Executive Director Guru Parulkar announced during his morning keynote address at ONF Connect that the four reference designs would be […]

May 16, 2017

Windstream has opened five new fiber routes located on its 100G nationwide network, enabling it to provide carrier and enterprise customers connectivity between major interconnection points in Tier 1 cities, as well as Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets across […]