optical networking

FTTH: Knowing where the fiber is buried and following the money

Talk to David Hashman about how to build out and finance fiber to the home (FTTH) and you know you're talking to someone who has drawn the plans for the trenches, been in the trenches, and knows where the fiber is buried (couldn’t pass up a lame criminal organization joke). Even if...

Optical diagnostic probes: Turn your network and cough

You can learn a lot from another carrier's problems, and in this example, wholesaler 360networks provides the case in point. Faced with TDM-to-IP translation problems that degraded voice call quality, the wholesaler

Good MEN are hard to find: Ciena to pay $769M for Nortel’s CE/optical biz

From stalking horse to ponying up more than three quarters of a million bucks, Ciena will be taking home most of

Huawei ascends to optical networking prominence in $3.6B market

<Did you see the blaze of light as Huawei’s streaked past Alcatel-Lucent on its way to becoming the top optical networking equipment vendor for the first time in Q3? Upsetting long-term record-holder Alcatel-Lucent, Ovum reported...

Ripped from the (Twitter) headlines: Ciena eyes Nortel optical/Carrier Ethernet biz

Ciena Corporation, a Maryland-based telecom equipment vendor, is chatting up bankrupt Nortel for its Optical Networking and Carrier Ethernet businesses, Nortel officials tweeted this afternoon.

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Huawei gains optical market share during recession, Asia-Pac build-out

China-based Huawei is at the top of the optical networking vendor pile for the first time in Ovum’s preliminary Q1 2009 results. The bigger news is that this puts Huawei ahead of optical-stalwart...

Global optical market declines? Let’s not get global

The recession feels like it will go on and on, yet so does the demand for bandwidth. So when it comes to the optical networking market, service providers need to put their recession anxiety on hold and move bravely forward. Yes, analyst firms have huddled and are now predicting declines for the...