Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...

Ciena Corp. (NYSE: CIEN) is one such company which revealed strong growth in its Optical Networking product solutions towards ...

The newly released 1.0 specifications are for the physical media dependent layer and transmission convergence layer ...

In a landmark achievement for network bandwidth transport, Arelion and Ciena have successfully completed the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tb/s) wavelengths data transmission in a live ...

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

What optical technology leads the way for wireless networks? The attributes of optical fiber Introduction to Semtech’s Tri-Edge technology There’s one trend everyone in the telecom industry agrees ...

Finnish networking giant Nokia Corp. has announced plans to acquire Infinera Corp. in a $2.3 billion deal that’s intended to help grow its optical networks business. The company, which makes ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...