DZS Rift acquisition enables cloud portfolio launch
5 March 2021
DZS has acquired network orchestration and automation solutions provider, Rift.
Software and Services
Nokia wins two DCI contracts with China webscale operators
17 June 2020
Nokia has been selected by two China-based webscale giants, Tencent and Baidu, to provide data center interconnect (DCI) network solutions to support growing cloud operations.
Intelligent light and optical networks
2 June 2020
Mattias Fridström looks at the role of software and collaboration in maximising optical networks in the future
Brazil’s ISPs to be ‘better served’ by ECI, WDC Networks partnership
12 September 2019
Optical transport systems vendor, ECI has partnered with service distributor, WDC Networks to better serve Brazilian internet service providers (ISPs).
Field of dreams
13 August 2019
Mattias Fridström and Parthiban Kandappan put software-driven, real-time optical layer performance awareness to the test
VeEX and Ubisense collaborate, make two software lines interoperable
22 October 2018
VeEX has announced a strategic partnership with intelligence solution provider, Ubisense which sees the companies integrate two software product lines to help deliver a real-time view of the status of a customer's physical network assets.
The rise of analytics
6 September 2018
Dr Danish Rafique offers a strategic blueprint for the optical networking sector
Events
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As the pandemic underlines the value of the internet more than ever, its underlying technology is making one of its biggest transitions for years.
The data centre market is a particularly wide-ranging one, with one of the driving forces in recent years the emergence of the hyperscale data centre or cloud service provider.
As the world struggles to settle into the ‘new normal’, today’s optical networks need to be flexible in their architecture blueprint, while adapting to new technologies to provide the kinds of new capacity and service options to meet accelerated demand for higher bandwidth.
To address the undeniable growing demand for higher bandwidth, optical vendors have been playing their role with the development of various coherent optical transceivers for different areas of the market, each with its own set of design considerations.
The demand for bandwidth has unarguably skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to the increased appetite for online gaming, content streaming and social-media use.
The importance of reliable connectivity has never been more recognised than it is now. While ambitious targets have been in place across the world for fibre deployment for some time, the ongoing pandemic has served to push it to the forefront.
Looking into the future of telecommunications, it could be argued that AI and telcos will effectively transform each other, explains Raf Meersman
How do we, as an industry, build better broadband for a post-pandemic world? The answer could be fixed, suggests Stefaan Vanhastel
Altnets could be the key to connecting rural areas in 2021, argues Michael Armitage
A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
