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Infinera Officially Lands CenturyLink


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December 4, 2012 : The DWDM vendor's win with a Tier 1 US carrier is finally out in the open

Euronews: Colt Fires Up 100GE


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November 21, 2012 : Also in today's EMEA roundup: Deutsche Telekom does 100GigE too; Orange cozies up to Akamai; BDUK is OK, says EC; Turk Telekom eyes Bulgaria

Extreme's 100G Packs a Cloud Trick


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November 13, 2012 : Tired of 100G? Good. The really interesting part about Extreme Networks' new blade might be in the memory chips

Why a 400G Standard Might Draw Complaints


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November 9, 2012 : It's not just a terabit thing. As the IEEE revs up for an apparent 400G Ethernet standard, some think optical speeds need to be set free

Ethernet Expo 2012: Adding SDN to the Mix


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November 4, 2012 : At Ethernet Expo New York, telecom execs get real on the hottest trends of the day – SDN, cloud services and elastic Ethernet

Enablence Gives 100G a Shot in China


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October 16, 2012 : Everyone's favorite photonic integration long-shot will help a large Chinese vendor with 40G and 100G modules

Chips Race to Absorb the Line Card


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October 12, 2012 : The network processor is expanding its reach up to applications and services, possibly intensifying the rivalry between two chipmakers

Why Arista Doesn't Like ASICs


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October 11, 2012 : Andy Bechtolsheim shares some thoughts about Moore's Law, networking chip design and the state of 100G

Brocade Boasts Bigger 10GE


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September 12, 2012 : Showing off to industry analysts this week, the company trots out some Ethernet advances for the data center and the service-provider core

Oclaro Lines Up Against Finisar, JDSU


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September 11, 2012 : More advanced line-card products could be a looming battleground for the optical components suppliers
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OFC/NFOEC 2012: New Product Recap


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March 15, 2012 : Wall-to-wall 100G devices (and a few others). We round up some of the new stuff at OFC/NFOEC 2012

New Product Recap: December 2011


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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

100Gbit/s Ethernet Router Test: Alcatel-Lucent


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July 14, 2011 : The second in our series of 100GbE tests puts the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR-12 through its paces

100Gbit/s Ethernet Router Test: ZTE


Reports - Carsten Rossenhövel - Comments (4)
July 7, 2011 : ZTE takes on Light Reading's 100GbE router test for traffic forwarding, MPLS, scalability and more

New Product Recap: May 2011


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June 3, 2011 : Here's a handy guide to some of the product announcements from last month

New Product Recap: April 2011


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May 15, 2011 : Here's a handy guide to some of the product announcements from last month
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Avago Intros Gearbox for 100G


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December 12, 2012 : Avago Technologies introduces Vortex Gearbox family of 28nm CMOS 100G Ethernet/OTN PHYs

CenturyLink Deploys Infinera DTN-X


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December 4, 2012 : CenturyLink deploys Infinera DTN-X for 100G national backbone

Extreme Boosts 100G Density


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November 13, 2012 : Extreme Networks announced new 100GbE and 40 GbE modules for its Open Fabric switch, the BlackDiamond® X8

XO Wins a Leading Light


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November 8, 2012 : XO Communications wins Leading Lights Award for Best New Telecom Service

Canoga Perkins Intros Cloudbuster


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November 6, 2012 : Canoga Perkins introduces the Cloudbuster NID, the world's first 100 Gigabit Ethernet network interface device

Interoute Uses Infinera's 100G


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October 16, 2012 : Interoute announces Europe-wide 100-Gigabit Ethernet services with Infinera DTN platform

Internet2 Launches 100G


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October 1, 2012 : Nation’s first 100G open, nationwide, software-defined network launches for education, research, industry and innovators

PMC Intros Ethernet/OTN Framer


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September 19, 2012 : PMC delivers industry’s first tri-speed converged Carrier Ethernet/OTN framer

Internet2 Links w/Health Orgs


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September 12, 2012 : Internet2 helps New England health consortium and network provide Telehealth and Telemedicine services to almost 700 health organizations

OIF Starts New 100G & 400G Work


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July 18, 2012 : OIF takes on technology for 100G and 400G and addresses emerging control plane applications
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ZTE: Leading R&D on 100G & Beyond Transmission


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December 20, 2012 : Zhensheng Jia, assistant director at ZTE, introduces the technical advantages of 100G product especially on DSP and SD-FEC modules, a number of field deployments worldwide, and also the pioneered achievements on 400G and 1T research

Cisco's View on Today's Ethernet Trends


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December 12, 2012 : Ron Johnson, director of high-end routing and optical at Cisco, discusses some of the emerging trends in the marketplace. Ron addresses things that are driving the demand for Ethernet along with the challenges and advances to meet this demand

100G & Beyond


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December 6, 2012 : Heavy Reading’s Sterling Perrin and Doug Junkins, CTO of NTT Communications, discuss the rapid rise of 100G transport and the drivers and requirements for a terabit transport future

Telco Systems Next Generation Mobile Backhaul Demarcation


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November 27, 2012 : T-Marc 3312SC from Telco Systems brings Ethernet/MPLS mobile backhaul to the cell site with best in class density size and more

A New Era of Mobile Backhaul


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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

2012 Leading Lights Finalists: Best Product (Telecom)


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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

Software-Defined Networking: An Extreme View


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September 18, 2012 : Extreme Networks CMO Dave Ginsburg weighs in on the importance of software-defined networking and how it means much more than a chance to jab Cisco

How Metro Network Aggregation Helps You Handle the Bandwidth Explosion - by Tellabs


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New Optical Transport Network Strategies That Cut Costs - by Tellabs


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Ethernet: The Key Catalyst for Network Convergence inside the Datacenter - by Aricent


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This whitepaper demystifies several new standards and alternatives to converge multiple application-specific datacenter networks. It will enable OEMs to better understand the options for datacenter convergence, and address implementation challenges.
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