As customer data demands explode, Verizon looks to scalability
Driven by customer demand for more data capacity, particularly for streaming video, Verizon has partnered with Cisco and Ciena to deploy a 100G metro optical network.
Eyeing plans to turn up live traffic in 2016, Verizon called...
Telecom giant adds Cisco, Ciena, Brocade to Domain 2.0 program
AT&T continues to bolster its software-defined networking and network function virtualization plans, announcing the addition of Cisco Systems, Ciena and Brocade Communications Systems to its Domain 2.0 supplier program.
The 2.0 program was unveiled late last...
As someone who focuses on mobile networks, sometimes I need to be reminded that apart from the very crucial radio access network and some types of backhaul, most of a "wireless" network is actually wired — and that the trends and challenges that face...
DENVER — Barry Zipp, industry marketing manager for Ciena, spoke with RCR's Kelly Hill at this week's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo on major market trends in networks, both for cable operators and for the wireless industry.
Zipp said that with the continued increases in demand on cable...
Telstra preps for SDN, NFV future
Australian telecom giant Telstra said it will continue working with vendor Ericsson to supply optical transport equipment and services, as well as packet-optical platforms from Ciena in support of the carrier’s move toward virtualization.
Telstra said the optical transport equipment...
