BSNL previosuly said it expected to launch a 4G network this year
Indian telecoms vendor HFCL has signed a deal worth INR 11.2 billion ($135 million) with state operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to upgrade its optical transport network (OTN) across India.
The vendor noted...
The Nokia OTN solution will enable Airtel to upgrade its legacy transport switching infrastructure across its pan-Indian network footprint
Finnish vendor Nokia has entered into an agreement with Indian carrier Bharti Airtel to deploy a next-generation optical transport network with the aim of providing additional...
The partnership involves the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) concept, pioneered by NTT
Japan’s NTT Corporation and Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co. have entered a partnership around the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) concept, which promotes the use of photonics technologies to develop high-speed,...
As demand has grown for high-speed services — from streaming high-resolution video to virtual conferencing — optical transport network speeds have grown almost as quickly. In fact, the Dell'Oro Group projects that 400GbE and higher speeds will account for nearly 30% of port shipments through 2024.
Since...
Teresa Monteiro, Infinera’s director of Solution Marketing, Software and Automation, discusses the benefits and challenges of disaggregated optical networks, how the increase in traffic is impacting these networks, and also, why she believes everyone should have a basic science education.
Bluewater Regional Networks COO Chris Gould said that the Ciena Waveserver platform “checked all the boxes”
Bluewater Regional Networks (BRN), a Canadian community-owned network provider, announced that it is using Ciena’s Waveserver Ai compact interconnect platform for a new cross-border network between Canada and the U.S....
Driven by high-definition TV, video interactive services, and also with the emergence of the IoT and 5G era, optical transport networks are stepping from 100G to 400G and 1T, according to Yan Xia, director of ZTE's New Jersey Lab.
The executive highlighted that using high-order...
Belgian operator partnered with Nokia on transport network modernization
As operators enhance their networks to keep up with increasing demand for mobile data capacity, considerable attention is paid to the radio access and core networks. But upgrades to radio and core infrastructure also require investment...
Microsemi and China Telecom are working prepare optical transport networks for an avalanche of 5G use cases.
Semiconductor company Microsemi and China Telecom's Beijing Research Institute are working on 5G-ready optical transport solutions, Microsemi announced yesterday.
Key to the effort is the DIGI-G5 chipset, Microsemi’s optical...
China Mobile to leverage Nokia equipment to build optical transport network
China Mobile has chosen Nokia to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network.
An optical transport network serves as a protocol for forwarding network messaging across optical fiber networks. It consists of a collection...
