Does your company buy network hardware or optics at full price? How about your used IT equipment — where does it end up? There’s certainly a lot of it out there, and the numbers are well-positioned to grow in 2018; Morgan Stanley advised that the IT hardware market could deliver double-digit earnings growth this year, as [...]
XKL’s DarkStar System Enhances West African Cable System - A Subsea Network Linking London to Cape Town The interconnection of data centers has become increasingly important for bandwidth intensive entities including enterprises, education, government, and healthcare sectors. Connecting separate data centers allows organizations to transfer workloads between locations, share resources and enable more capabilities. Considering the [...]
This Wednesday, December 13th, grab a cup of tea and afternoon snack before joining us at 2 PM ET for Best Practices for Modernizing Utility Networks webinar. Our very own Jaymie Scotto Cutaia will be moderating the discussion with featured panelists Jim Westdorp, Sr. Advisor in Product Line Management of Ciena; Rob Sterrenberg, VP/GM, Network Solutions of Telamon; and Tim Valin, Sr. [...]
Another well-deserved award for LightRiver Technologies, Inc., the leader in Factory Built Network® design and commissioning of multi-vendor packet optical networks. Technology Media Telecom (TMT) News has awarded LightRiver as the Best Next-Gen Optical Communication Technology Provider for 2017. The TMT News Award recognizes LightRiver’s Factory Built Network® solution as the USA’s “Most Sophisticated Telecom Network [...]
Not all optical transport solutions are created equal. MRV’s new 200G coherent digital muxponders that were added to its OptiDriver WDM optical transport portfolio today is now one of the only platforms that covers a full range of applications. Data center operators, service providers and enterprises alike can enjoy smaller access locations to large metro and [...]
This morning XKL debuted its latest at ITW 2017 – the Mux/Demux – Amplifier (DMD-A) optical utility appliance. Designed to improve network flexibility and manageability, the DMD-A provides a variety of filter options including 48-channel or 96-channel mux/demux and 4-band or 6-band combiner filter, and allows for point-to-point or east/west configurations. It also provides support for up [...]
MRV Communications welcomes a new compact optical transport solution to the family today –the OD-4-DCI! The new platform is designed for the data center interconnect (DCI) market and will join the OptiDriver® suite of WDM metro transport solutions. The addition of the OD-4-DCI enables modular ultra-high density DCI in a compact 1RU form factor, with stackable [...]
MRV Communications has yet again been selected to assist with a fiber backbone build-out and this time it was chosen by BTC Broadband, a regional broadband telecommunications service provider in the State of Oklahoma. BTC Broadband was in search for an effective solution that could be both cost-effective and have the capability to satisfy their current [...]
Today, Syndeo Network, a fiber-optic based broadband communications service provider, announced its selection of MRV’s OptiDriver® to upgrade and streamline its WDM network. Syndeo was in need of an upgrade that would support its ever-growing customer traffic demands, both presently and into the future – enter MRV’s metro optical transport solution. In addition to Syndeo providing [...]
Today, MRV Communications announced an upgrade to its Pro-VisionÒ service management and orchestration software platform. The upgrade includes a next generation RESTCONF Northbound application program interface (API), that leverages standards-based Yang models for seamless integration with high-order orchestration platforms. This will enable full Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) for transport services. Pro-Vision - which can scale to [...]
As reported on CBS This Morning, the Saturday Morning news program, the world is celebrating 150 years since the first transatlantic cable was installed, which was the flame that sparked today’s ever growing, ever complex global communications network. Whether you are calling, emailing or uploading/downloading content, to places near and far, you have everyday telecom heroes [...]
Lightower Fiber Networks is now able to deliver its all-fiber network services to any federal government agency, as well as to state and local governments through a new cooperative purchasing contract. With the award of a U.S. Government Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 070 contract, Lightower is now part of a pre-approved list of [...]
MRV Communications™, the global provider of innovative packet and optical solutions for service providers, data center operators and enterprises, wins TMC's Solutions Product of the Year Award. The OptiPacket® OP-X1 Carrier Ethernet 100G access solutions earned recognition from TMC, the publisher of leading industry publications including Cloud Computing, IoT Evolution, Customer, and Internet Telephony. “It is an honor [...]
LightRiver Technologies, Inc. has been busy on the hiring front this month. And the new folks they've brought into the fold are exceptional additions. Earlier this week, they announced the appointment of Heidi Westbrook - an incredibly talented and accomplished sales professional - as the new Sales Director of U.S. Cloud and Data Center. Ms. Westbrook brings [...]
MRV supports open source collaboration. As the global provider of innovative packet and optical solutions for service providers, data center operators and enterprises, MRV announced today it had joined the Open Invention Network (OIN). The organization is the largest patent non-aggression community dedicated to the ongoing support of Linux and open source software. MRV has leveraged Linux [...]
In today’s market, there is a strong demand for bandwidth, which means a flexible and scalable network is crucial for customers. Today at Telecom Exchange NYC, XKL announces its FlexArc Distributed DWDM platform. With this innovative solution, customers are able to distribute bandwidth capacity and scale on an as-needed basis, thereby providing users with flexible network [...]
