Nokia today announced that it has been awarded a three-year deal by Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) to deploy 4G and 5G equipment. The agreement includes the modernization and expansion of VIL's 4G network of which Nokia is already a major supplier. The deployment will deliver premium connectivity to over 200 million V...

Adtran today announced that 1&1 Versatel is upgrading its nationwide fiber optic network across Germany by leveraging Adtran FSP 3000 open optical transport technology. The new flexgrid solution expands network capacity to support data rates up to 800Gbit/s and stretches across approximately 65,000km of fiber infrastru...

Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) will feature its latest advancements in PON pluggables, purpose-built routers, optical innovations, and network control software at Network X, occurring October 8–10 in Paris, France. Ciena's speaking sessions and demonstrations will show how its solutions help network operators expand broadband ...

Nokia's research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, and e&, a global technology group, announced today that they have signed a year-long, non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MoU”) for R&D collaboration to create AI-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors. ...

HyperLight Corporation, a leading provider of thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), announced a US$37 million Series B investment led by Summit Partners....

Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), a global leader in networking systems, services, and software, recently deployed the industry's first known 400 Gb/s protected optical circuit ...

Nokia today announced that it has been selected by Spark New Zealand (Spark), to expand its existing 4G and 5G program in cities across New Zealand. Spark has chosen Nokia as its preferred 5G Radio Access Network partner to streamline operations and consolidate its RAN. This strategic decision will simplify networ...

Nokia today announced that it has partnered with ZCorum, a leading provider of diagnostics and managed services for broadband providers, to develop a DOCSIS Provisioning Adapter (DPA) application. The DPA solution will allow cable operators to use their existing DOCSIS-based provisioning system to provision an Optical ...

Sipartech, a leading infrastructure operator in Europe, is leveraging Ciena's (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution to provide wholesale 400GbE services over an 800Gb/s wavelength on its submarine network and bolster the resilience and quality of its extensive pan-European network. ...

Aqua Comms (“Aqua Comms”), a leading provider of global subsea connectivity services, has announced today that it has accelerated its investment in its platform by lighting a new fibre pair on Aqua Comms' AEC-1 system. Owned and operated by Aqua Comms, AEC-1, is Ireland's first dedicated subsea fibre-optic netw...

Malaysian cable construction firm OMS has set aside $300 million to tip into new cable systems and expand its core business. ...

Nokia today announced that International Gateway Company Limited (IGC) has selected Nokia's next-generation optical transport solution to modernize its existing DWDM network, which connects the East region to Cambodia and the South region to Malaysia. Powered by Nokia's latest generation Photonic Service E...

Nokia today announced that it has signed a major new deal with Viettel Group (Viettel) to deploy 5G equipment for the first time nationwide in Vietnam. The ambitious project will cover 22 provinces across the country and support Viettel's strategy of advancing 5G infrastructure and digital transformation. The ...

Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) continues to push technology boundaries by bringing to market a 1.6 Tb/s Coherent-Lite pluggable to help cloud and data center providers cope with the expected growth in cloud, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) related traffic. ...

India's Vodafone Idea has awarded a huge $3.6 billion deal for mobile network equipment to Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung. ...

Coherent announces the general availability and production release of the industry's first 100G ZR QSFP28 digital coherent optics (DCO) transceiver....

The Open XR Optics Forum is excited to announce the publication of its Management Requirements White Paper. With 17 authors of 13 forum member companies, this pivotal document provides an in-depth evaluation of the management interface and API requirements essential for advancing the development and adoption of next ge...

Nokia today announced a strategic partnership with Zain Iraq to upgrade the telecom operator's network in the south of Iraq. The three-year deal marks Nokia's first entry into the microwave (MW) business with Zain Iraq, enhancing network capacity and modernizing the infrastructure to support future growth and i...

India's Bharti Airtel plans to award contracts worth $1 billion over the next three years to expand its 4G network in remote and rural areas, according to local press reports. ...

Adtran today announced its key role in the Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF) demonstration of open, multi-vendor networking at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2024. At the center of the showcase are Adtran's Coherent 100ZR QSFP28 pluggable module and its FSP 3000 open optical line sy...