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100G News & Analysis
5/18/2012  -  XO CMO Don MacNeil sees content of all kinds and data center interconnectivity driving his wholesale business, which in turn is driving the operator towards 100Gbit/s Ethernet
5/17/2012  -  What if ports could change speeds in, say, 25Gbit/s increments? Cisco brought up the idea at the Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference
Most Recent Post: obaut... Is this similar to ODUflex / G.HAO ITU-T standard, or something beyond these capabilities?
5/17/2012  -  Light Reading's Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference will see lots of discussion about the optical control plane
5/16/2012  -  We mean that not just in terms of faster speeds, but also in terms of new topics like software-defined networking
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... Keen to see if any of the operators are rubbing their hands at the prospect of SDN enabling them to cut ties with traditional...
5/11/2012  -  Upgrading to 100Gbit/s systems in metro markets around the world and deploying Ciena kit for control plane smarts
Most Recent Post: sienkod... Rae, In your first sentence you mention "long distance" and 100 Gbps - do you mean voice and data by this reference?
5/9/2012  -  Huawei comes to Interop striving for relevance in the US enterprise and data center markets
Most Recent Post: FastCache... It is a truism that data traffic continues to grow YoY which leads customers to keep a sharp focus on who able to consistently...
4/30/2012  -  A 200G chip is the company's answer to the big, flat data-center fabric that vendors like to talk about
Most Recent Post: usernametaken... Flook: There are lots of pizza boxes of >200Gbps today. Anything based on Broadcom Trident/Trident+ (Arista 7050, Cisco...
4/26/2012  -  Shrinking revenues and margins herald the start of another tough year for Alcatel-Lucent
Most Recent Post: Indaba... Exactly, and Nortel would have given ALU 100% deeper NA market penetration. That was the the worst M&A I can remember....
4/20/2012  -  Amsterdam Internet Exchange CTO Henk Steenman says ISPs interconnecting in the Dutch capital are already signing up for 100 Gigabit Ethernet services
4/19/2012  -  Mike Tighe, the former Verizon executive who recently joined AboveNet as VP of marketing, says history suggests that a 100Gbit/s Ethernet connection will soon become the standard for business customers
3/27/2012  -  The companies' planned merger is all about surviving by getting bigger, something Oclaro already knows a little about
Most Recent Post: Balet... I believe Chinese engineers are as capable of innovation as any other engineers in the world. Their problem IMHO is that...
3/22/2012  -  After a successful year of 100G deployments in 2011, Heavy Reading’s Sterling Perrin and Huawei's Fei Zhu discuss Huawei’s 100G deployments
100G Newswire Feed
READING, UK: SSE Telecoms Lights 100G With Ciena - 5/17/2012
FREMONT, CA: OIF Works on 56G Interfaces - 5/16/2012
LINTHICUM, MD: Ciena Lights 100G in Europe - 5/8/2012
IRVINE, CA: Broadcom Intros 100G Gearboxes - 5/2/2012
IRVINE, CA: Broadcom Intros 100G Switch - 4/30/2012
SAN JOSE, CA: GigOptix Intros 100G TIA - 4/24/2012
100G Blogs
Ray Le Maistre
Infinera's New Euro Scalp
Ray Le Maistre
3/5/2012  -  7:15 AM Could DTN-X deal be back door into Vodafone?
Most Recent Post: rzerockzeron... this is getting funny. Not Dave7777 & Corvis thread funny, but funny.
Craig Matsumoto
Timing the Terabit Standard
Craig Matsumoto
2/24/2012  -  5:25 PM Even though terabit work is already underway, it might not be too early to start worrying
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Ray Le Maistre
AlcaLu's 100G Boast
Ray Le Maistre
1/26/2012  -  12:15 PM Alcatel-Lucent regards itself as unique in the 100G transport market, but in what way exactly?
Most Recent Post: Iluzun... Sailboat, I like very much your 'commoditization' analogy for the current market dynamics. I was on the financial/application...
Craig Matsumoto
Ciena Goes Terabit
Craig Matsumoto
10/31/2011  -  11:00 AM Running 1Tbit/s isn't pretty yet, and that's part of the fun
Most Recent Post: bogowan... For those of you who'd like to see the Terabit demo that Craig saw as part of this article, we just posted a video of the...
Ray Le Maistre
Rostelecom's 100G Hedge
Ray Le Maistre
10/19/2011  -  11:45 AM Russian carrier checks out two 100G options
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Craig Matsumoto
Pecking at the Terabit Question
Craig Matsumoto
8/24/2011  -  11:00 AM Maybe the OIF's 100G mojo will help get the industry moving towards whatever comes next
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Phil Harvey
The Leading Lights in 2011
Phil Harvey
7/11/2011  -  3:20 PM We're now accepting entries for the 2011 Leading Lights awards. Deadline for entries is Sept. 2, and we'll announce finalists during the week of Sept. 18
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... Can't wait tosee what sort of suggestions we get for this year's Hall of Fame - we had a great mix last year...   Light...
Joe Braue
CxO Downloads: AboveNet's Rajiv Datta
Joe Braue
12/8/2010  -  3:25 PM More vendors means more complexity
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Columns
Solutions to 10 Service Provider Pain Points
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi gives us his take on how to fix the 10 'pain points' causing havoc in service-provider networks
Eslambolchi: 10 Service Provider Pain Points
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi lists 10 things that are causing havoc in service provider networks
Is 100G Transport Closing the Window on 40G?
Danny Dicks
While 10-Gbit/s systems still dominate optical transmission system shipments, bandwidth demand is spurring network operators to accelerate their timetables for migrating to 40G and 100G technologies
100G Hits the Ground Running
Simon Stanley
Soaring demand for bandwidth is driving telecom equipment makers, silicon developers, and optical component vendors to accelerate timetables for 100-Gbit/s Ethernet products
Heavy Lifting
ANALYST NOTES
Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst
Here’s a look at some of the key themes we expect to hear about at this year's Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Conference
Simon Stanley, Analyst
Survey responses clearly show that 100G interfaces will play a major role in future networking systems
Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst
Part two of our assessment of telecom equipment opportunities in India, focusing on packet-optical trends
Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst
Take a look at the hot topics we'll discuss at our annual Packet-Optical Transport Evolution conference
Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst
Now that the major work on 100Gbit/s technology is over, the time has come to ask: What's next?
100G Core Content
VIDEO
The Emerging 100GE Networking Era
2/23/2012 - Service providers are embracing 100GE and deployments will ramp as ecosystem development helps drive affordability.
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VIDEO
Deploying 100G Transport Networks
2/10/2012 - Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Sterling Perrin and representatives from Reliance Globalcom, Level 3 and XO talk about deploying 100G today.
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WHITEPAPER
Deploying 100G Transport Networks Today - by Heavy Reading
1/27/2012 - This white paper focuses on the commercialization of 100G transport, with an emphasis on real-world deployments and the drivers and technology enablers that...
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WHITEPAPER
The Emerging 100GE Network Era - by Heavy Reading
12/27/2011 - This paper will provide an update on major 100GE ecosystem developments that should give confidence to the service provider community that we are approaching...
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WEBINAR
ON DEMAND
Deploying 100G Transport Today - a Light Reading Webinar
12/6/2011 - In this webinar, the leading 100G suppliers chart an economical and sustainable path to 100G today and for the future.
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WEBINAR
ON DEMAND
The Emerging 100GE Network Era - a Light Reading Webinar
12/8/2011 - This webinar will highlight the importance of 100GE technology and provides an update on the evolution of the 100GE service-enabling architecture.
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100G Ethernet Sponsor Assets
WHITEPAPER
Introducing the Brocade MLXe: Brocade's High-Density 100 GbE Router
11/7/2011 - Breakthrough performance and capacity of the Brocade MLXe 100 GbE router enable service provider networks and data centers to support increasing application...
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WHITEPAPER
Are You Ready for 40/100G? - by Spirent
11/14/2011 - 40/100G Ethernet brings a new set of issues to the development cycle, including challenges at the physical layer and the critical issue of the test platform...
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WEBSITE
High Speed Ethernet Testing - by Spirent
11/14/2011 - Learn how Spirent can help you design, build, test and deploy with confidence high speed Ethernet. Read whitepapers and watch videos why companies are...
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APPLICATION NOTE
New DNA for the Evolution of Service Routing: The FP3 400G Network Processor - by Alcatel-Lucent
11/23/2011 - Breakthrough routing technology enables service-aware 400G interfaces, setting the benchmark for next-generation power efficient, high-performance IP routing.
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WHITEPAPER
Isocore verifies Alcatel-Lucent 7750SR: 100GE Services at Speed
11/23/2011 - Results of comprehensive tests validate the performance of the 7750SR service routing solution to support high-touch service connections at 100G line-rate speeds.
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100G Transport Sponsor Assets
WEBSITE
Alcatel-Lucent 100G Resource Center
11/23/2011 - Optimize across IP and Optics to transform what has traditionally been a cost center — your transport network — into an easy-to-manage revenue enabler.
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VIDEO
The ECOC Exhibition - Ericsson - Steven Alleston
11/8/2011 - Watch Ericsson's Steven Alleston discuss technology, ecosystems and road map for getting beyond 100G.
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SLIDE SHOW
Technologies and Techniques for 400G and Beyond - by Ericsson
11/7/2011 - Additional enabling technologies are required in the optical toolbox to get beyond 100G. Following on its groundbreaking 400G demonstration at Mobile World...
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