News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2) December 25, 2012 : We wouldn't dare mention software-defined networking here. Well, maybe just a few times
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 - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6) December 11, 2012 : A year-long R&D project is yet another sign that the carriers might need that intermediate step while waiting for 1Tbit/s
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (10) December 3, 2012 : Nokia Siemens Networks is offloading its optical division, including its 100G assets, to the private equity firm that bought Sycamore
News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comments (4) August 14, 2012 : Competitive carrier also chooses NSN over Infinera for its deployment, which is driven by bandwidth demands but also costs
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (21) July 31, 2012 : We'll be adding five more names to the Light Reading Hall of Fame in November. Let us know who you'd pick
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6) May 24, 2012 : Even Alcatel-Lucent is surprised at the eagerness around 400G, with some carriers wanting bragging rights for the optical technology
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 - Post a comment March 7, 2012 : Low-loss waveguides (to fend off a power crisis in 2018) and radical modulation tricks are on researcher Dan Blumenthal's mind
Reports - Comment (1) October 1, 2012 : Here are the finalists for the industry's most prestigious awards program, the Leading Lights
Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment March 15, 2012 : Wall-to-wall 100G devices (and a few others). We round up some of the new stuff at OFC/NFOEC 2012
Reports - Comments (4) September 29, 2011 : Here are the finalists for the industry's most prestigious awards program, the Leading Lights
Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment March 25, 2011 : Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from the OFC/NFOEC 2011
Reports - Comments (6) September 22, 2010 : Here are the finalists for the industry's most prestigious awards program, the Leading Lights
Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (3) August 3, 2010 : Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from last month
Reports - Phil Harvey - Comments (11) October 19, 2009 : Here are the products and services that we think best indicate where the communications industry is headed in the next 12 months
Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (25) July 22, 2009 : A year on, who's in and who's out?
New vendors
New products
New trends
Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (8) July 3, 2009 : Telecom's latest bandwidth-busting technology
Vendors
Product trends
Who's missing?
News Wire Feed - Post a comment December 20, 2012 : Light 'jumping the tracks' enables enhanced data processing, better sensing
News Wire Feed - Post a comment December 11, 2012 : Fujitsu, NTT and NEC launch joint R&D for world’s top-level, 400Gbps-class optical transmissions technology
News Wire Feed - Post a comment December 6, 2012 : ADVA Optical Networking CEO Brian Protiva to address network transformation at OFC/NFOEC 2013 plenary session
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 1, 2012 : Keck honored for his contributions to optical communications
News Wire Feed - Post a comment October 17, 2012 : An R&D team uses spatial multiplexing to get 57.6Tbit/s down a fiber
News Wire Feed - Post a comment October 16, 2012 : Bell Labs breakthrough eliminates need for costly equipment and complex test procedures, claims vendor
News Wire Feed - Post a comment October 12, 2012 : Communications technology leaders set to deliver keynote talks at OFC/NFOEC 2013
News Wire Feed - Post a comment September 19, 2012 : The Euro project's post-deadline ECOC papers from Mode-gap include one about 73Tbit/s mode-division multiplexing
News Wire Feed - Post a comment September 4, 2012 : Optelian announces LightGAIN DWDM deployment by Myanmar Post and Telegraph while on Canadian trade mission
News Wire Feed - Post a comment August 30, 2012 : Researchers measure photonic interactions at the atomic level
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 30, 2012 : Zeev Draer, VP of strategic marketing at MRV, discusses how convergence of layers and monetization of services drive networking for service providers and how real estate issues are creating the need for efficient optical and packet platforms
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 15, 2012 : Vitesse Semiconductor CTO Martin Nuss discusses the unique challenges for small cell deployments and the importance of nanosecond-accurate timing in 4G/LTE and LTE-Advanced networks
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 5, 2012 : Mike Schabel, VP of the Small Cells Division at Alcatel-Lucent, discusses how to deliver affordable mobile service to meet today's data service demands in public spaces with Metro Cells
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment October 29, 2012 : 4:00 AM Continuing our look at this year's shortlisted entries, it's time to examine the best services or applications in the fixed line world
Research Analyst Interviews - Post a comment October 23, 2012 : Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Colt's Mirko Voltolini discuss opportunities and challenges for network operators in the cloud era as well as some of the key enabling technologies for adapting transport networks to cloud demands
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 13, 2012 : 10:45 AM Next week's European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) has caught the SDN bug, but plenty of other subjects are on tap
The Philter - Phil Harvey - Comment (1) June 7, 2012 : 1:50 PM Verizon CTO Tony Melone says the process of converging the carrier's four backbone networks is, well, a process
Resource Library This digital report is based on sessions conducted at Light Reading's one-day event: Packet Optical Transport Evolution.
White Papers Xtera deployed in 2011 the industry's most advanced 100G coherent equipment with soft-decision FEC and 40-nm CMOS technology. Combined with innovative line equipment, Xtera offers the unique line capacity of 15 Tb/s on distances exceeding 3,000 km.
LRTV Custom TV - Comment (1) March 19, 2012 : Industry leaders from Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Heavy Reading and Infinera discuss how super-channels scale networks without scaling operations and the benefits of photonic integration
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