News Analysis - Post a comment December 24, 2012 : Terabit is fun to talk about, but a lot of lab work has been going into the more immediate payoff of 400G
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) September 7, 2012 : The carrier says it's leading the US pack when it comes to 100G, and it's got room for vendors beyond Ciena and Nokia Siemens to get involved
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment September 5, 2012 : After picking NSN for the 100G core, XO extends its use of Ciena in metro and regional networks. Who's missing?
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 20, 2012 : Swedish transport vendor joins some big North American names in the metro equipment supplier list at XO Communications
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 18, 2012 : A major mobile takeover rumor, 100Gbit/s metro action, more Nokia concerns and Euro pressure for ZTE
News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comments (2) May 18, 2012 : Jim King of AT&T Labs says 100G isn't as important to the company as the optical technology that makes the transport network run smoothly
News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment May 17, 2012 : Service provider transport networks are handling massively more volume, but spending has yet to surpass Sonet/SDH spending
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (8) May 10, 2012 : The software-defined networking protocol is mostly discussed as a Layer 2 or 3 item, but it might be able to do something for wavelengths, too
Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment December 27, 2011 : While you nurse your Christmas hangover, have a look at our handy guide to some of the most important product announcements from December 2011
News Wire Feed - Post a comment December 27, 2012 : Boston investment firm Berkshire Partners leads a deal to combine Lightower and Sidera to form a carrier with more than 6,000 on-net locations
News Wire Feed - Comment (1) July 12, 2012 : ADVA's FSP 3000 WDM gear has been installed at a new NYSE Secure Financial Trading Infrastructure (SFTI) access center
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 19, 2012 : Alcatel-Lucent is providing flexible, scalable, simplified solutions for the next generation of heterogeneous networks. From 100GB interfaces to 60GHz radios, Alcatel-Lucent is driving mobile backhaul innovation
Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1) October 23, 2012 : 11:00 AM Kicking off a series of blogs about the 2012 Leading Lights awards, here's the reasoning for the six telecom product finalists we picked
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LRTV Interviews - Phil Harvey - Post a comment March 16, 2012 : Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock explains how 100G improves latency, when the costs might be right to see 100G in the metro and why Verizon supports flexible grid technology
LRTV Interviews - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment March 16, 2012 : CEO Brian Protiva discusses how the optical control plane is getting more complicated and tells us what metro 100G means to carriers
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