http://www.ict-oase.eu/ en Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:25:52 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=282 The workshop was organized by three EU R&D projects on 7th of February 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia and gathered key people from the European networking community to discuss about trends in next generation converged, wireless and optical networks. News Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=286 The FTTH subscriber base in Europe is set to grow by more than 200 percent in the next five years, from 10.4 million in 2011 to more than 32 million by the end of 2016, according to a new forecast from Heavy Reading for the FTTH Council Europe. News Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=284 There were nearly 75 million FTTH subscribers worldwide at the end of 2012, but only 10.3 million of them are in Europe, according to the latest update to the FTTH Council's "FTTH Ranking" unveiled at the FTTH Conference in Munich. News Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=283 ZTE Corp. says that as of the end of the third quarter of 2011, if you own 10G EPON equipment, you bought it from them. The company says that as of that quarter, it enjoyed a 100% share of the 10G EPON market. News Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=279 Dutch FTTH gateway developer Genexis says it plans to launch a new product line at next week's FTTH Council Conference in Munich. News Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=278 ADVA Optical Networking hopes to strengthen its position in packet-optical systems with the announcement it has launched a new user network interface (UNI) for its Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control plane. News Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=277 France Telecom will double its investment in fibre networks in 2012 to 300-350 million euros and won't scale back its broadband ambitions because of intensifying competition in its home market, its chief executive said on Wednesday. News Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=275 Acacia Communications Inc. bills itself as a 100Gbit/s startup, but it's possible the company already has its sights set on higher speeds. News Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=276 Calling 100Gbit/s transport "unstoppable," an Infonetics Research Inc. report released Wednesday says carriers want the technology in both new and old networks, putting some evidence behind anectodes about impatient 100Gbit/s demand. News Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=240 The main goal of this workshop on municipal fiber networks was spreading knowledge from existing fiber network initiatives towards different players involved in potential future deployments. News Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=272 Cisco Systems Inc. has completed a trial of coherent 100Gbit/s dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM), the first salvo out of an apparently rejuvenated optical division. News Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=270 Tata Communications Ltd. announced Wednesday that it's installed coherent 40Gbit/s links on an undersea route between New York and London. News Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=271 China Telecom Corp. Ltd. has shortlisted five vendors for its latest 100Gbit/s trials, which will take place in December or early in 2012. News Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=258 As it is established practice, ONDM 2012 will focus on cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in optical networking, as well as topics relating optical networking to the other areas and disciplines, such as integration of optical and wireless networks or the role of optical network for the future Internet design. News Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=257 BT announced two thirds of UK premises will have access to fibre broadband by the end of 2014, one year ahead of its original target of 2015. To help achieve this, BT is bringing forward approximately £300 million of investment over the next few years to fund the accelerated roll-out. These funds form part of BT's total investment of £2.5 billion in commercial fibre broadband. News Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=256 Italian broadband provider FastWeb plans to deploy the first 100G-capable optical network between Milan and Rome. Using equipment from Nokia Siemens Networks, the upgraded network will be capable of simultaneously transmitting up to 40 wavelengths per fiber, each carrying data at 100 Gbps, giving a total data transfer potential of 4 Tbps. News Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=255 France-based optical systems vendor Ekinops has unveiled its plans to support 100-Gbps transmission requirements. The company's initial plans focus on a “pizza box” platform that can operate as either a muxponder or transponder. News Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=254 Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. claims to have produced the industry's first 40G PON prototype. The system was jointly tested and certified by Huawei and the China Telecom Beijing Research Institute earlier this month. News Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=249 It's been a busy couple of weeks for various aspects of 100Gbit/s networking, and not all because of The ECOC Exhibition. We start on the business side. News Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=250 FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) is gathering momentum in Europe, according to new figures from the FTTH Council Europe announced at the ongoing Broadband World Forum in Paris. News Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=251 As the cream of the EMEA region's broadband fraternity head to Paris for the annual Broadband World Forum event (Sept. 27-29), one industry analyst is posing a highly pertinent question: Do the telcos need FTTH? News Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=252 MultiPhy has introduced a chip for 100Gbit/s metro connections, targeting the potential market for 100Gbit/s parts that don't follow the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) framework. News Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=253 Infinera is launching its DTN-X system Thursday, fortifying its position on multiple battle fronts including coherent 100Gbit/s transmission, packet-optical transport and Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching. News Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=246 ADVA Optical Networking is announcing a non-coherent 100Gbit/s transport technology for metro networks. The 100G Metro technology, being announced Thursday for ADVA's FSP 3000, is a cheaper alternative to the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) framework for long-haul 100Gbit/s. News Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=247 Furukawa has demonstrated 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) transmission over its TeraLAN HDMPO OM4 multimode fiber-optic cable and connectors. The performance was verified using Xena Networks optical test equipment. News Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=245 The WDM-PON Forum, a three year-old organization dedicated to the advancement of WDM-based passive optical networking (PON), has added Dr. Bas Huiszoon of Genexis, Jon Baldry of Transmode, and Dr. Alexander Niepel of Nokia-Siemens Networks to its board of directors. News Thu, 1 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=244 BTI Systems Inc. is outfitting its 7000 series equipment with the ability to adjust optical power on the fly, so they don't have to manually adjust the optical network node by node every time something gets out of whack. News Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=243 Telecom operators spent a collective $4.1 billion on optical equipment during the second quarter of this year, up 17 percent compared with a year ago and 16 percent compared with the first quarter of this year, according to figures from Ovum Ltd. News Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=242 Deutsche Telekom plans to create a new subsidiary that will focus on FTTH deployment and is looking for 1,500 employees for the subsidiary. News Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=235 Poland faces ambitious challenges with respect to the implementation of the European Digital Agenda, which stipulates that by 2013 all EU citizens should have access to broadband internet, which access speed will rise in the next 7 years, until 2020, to at least 30 Mb/s for all households. News Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=236 Gigalight has added a 120-km DWDM/TDM XFP Module to its portfolio of 10-Gbps long distance products. News Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=237 Global Net Access (GNAX), which provides data center services, colocation, cloud computing, and managed hosting in the U.S., has deployed the FSP 3000 from ADVA Optical Networking, the system houses says. GNAX used the WDM system to increase the capacity of the connection from its Atlanta NAP data center to a Telx interconnection facility as well as support service level agreements (SLAs) and low-latency requirements. News Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.ict-oase.eu/?page=12&action=article&article_id=234 Maxis Berhad, an integrated communications service provider in Malaysia, has deployed coherent 100-Gbps technology from Alcatel-Lucent in its core optical backbone network. Maxis will leverage the upgraded capabilities to support both fixed and mobile Internet service, business services, cloud computing, and machine-to-machine communications. News Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200