Tag: Telecom Equipment

December 26, 2023

I hope the holidays are treating everyone well! In the meantime, here’s a bit of news I’m still catching up on from late last week. One data center expansion project, one regional healthcare win, a nextgen optical trial, and an […]

July 24, 2023

The optical industry’s job is never done, as there is always a need for more speed and bandwidth. I remember clearly when Infinera burst onto the scene in the mid-2000s with new Indium Phosphide technology and photonic integrated circuits to […]

July 20, 2023

New PoPs, new fiber buildouts, new vendor deployments, and some hybrid 5G: RETN continued to expand its pan-European footprint with three new PoPs this week. They added a new PoP in London, England at Lumen DC in Goswell Road, in […]

June 22, 2023

We had a significant inorganic move in the vendor space yesterday. The industry giant Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Accedian from their current majority owners at Bridge Growth Partners. Accedian specializes in performance monitoring and service assurance, laboring […]

May 30, 2023

The biggest vendor names in the network space are those who provide the optical platforms and routers. But in between those areas at the intersection of different vendors, technologies, and designs there has long been space for independent innovation. One […]

May 23, 2023

Lots of interesting items going on around the world this week: DE-CIX is taking aim at the interconnection landscape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They have teamed up with the service provider United S.A. and the NGO ‘Internet pour […]

May 11, 2023

Two interesting expansion projects, a significant upgrade project, and some bit R&E bandwidth: Arelion has put together a new fiber route connecting cable landing stations along the southeastern US coast. The route connects the company’s northern Virginia depth and its […]

May 9, 2023

Two data center expansion projects, a big bandwidth trial, and some SASE. Infinera has completed a significant intercity trial of its ICE6 solution with Telstra Infraco. The trial succeeded in putting 61.3Tbps of unregenerated capacity on a single Corning SMF-28 […]

April 19, 2023

A fiber network expansion and three vendor portfolio expansions: Ritter Communications has found another target market for its metro fiber network expansion. They have moved into Dyersburg TN, a city about an hour north by northwest along the Mississippi from […]

December 19, 2022

Swedish vendor Ericsson said it is scaling up the production capacity and operations with its partner Jabil in Pune, with the aim of meeting the needs of 5G network deployments in India. Ericsson and Jabil locally produce 4G and 5G […]

December 9, 2022

Fixed wireless access (FWA) networks have long been used to provide basic internet service in areas with no fiber or coax infrastructure. Unfortunately, these legacy FWA solutions are significantly challenged by the obstructions pervasive in most residential neighborhoods, which block […]

August 31, 2022

Ericsson has announced its official exit from Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The vendor suspended its business in Russia indefinitely in April of this year, but last week told its Russian unit that it will be shut […]

September 23, 2020

Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies holds sufficient stock of chips for the company’s smartphone and network equipment businesses to overcome supply chain obstacles raised by U.S. sanctions, rotating chairman Guo Ping said during a media rountable at Huawei Connect event in […]

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 […]

December 10, 2019

Ericsson has reached an expensive resolution to its corruption problems with the US DOJ. They have agreed to pay a penalty of $1.06B, for which the DOJ will defer prosecution and have them dismissed later. The charges stem from Ericsson’s […]

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 […]

August 23, 2019

The Earth is a watery place. H2O covers 71% of our planet’s surface, and vast oceans separate countries and continents by thousands of miles. Yet, nations and peoples are drawing closer than at any point before in history. Certainly, some […]

March 22, 2019

U.S. officials are failing to provide concrete details about the risks of implementing telecom equipment from Chinese vendors, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said during an event hosted by the Economic Club of Washington D.C, earlier this week. He said that […]

January 18, 2019

ZTE and China Unicom have completed a 5G call using ZTE’s 5G prototype smartphone in a Shenzhen 5G field trial, according to the telecom equipment company. The test completed the verification of services including a Wechat group voice call, online […]

December 4, 2018

DE-CIX has passed a key milestone in its quest to dominate the New York City IX market. This morning they announced that they now have more than 200 unique ASN networks connected and claimed the number # slot for that […]