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UC San Diego Adds 100 Gbps Networking Research Connection

What does it mean to have 100G connectivity? Just how much data is a 100G connection capable of transmitting? The answer, it turns out, is quite a bit.

10 May 2013

Fibertech Networks to Expand Fiber Optic Network in Delaware

Fibertech Networks, a leader in providing fiber-optic based network services throughout mid-size cities, today announced it will expand its fiber optic network in Delaware.

8 May 2013

ADVA Optical Networking’s 100G Core Deployed in Hetzner Online’s Backbone Network

ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Hetzner Online has deployed its 100G Core technology throughout its backbone network. One of Germany's leading web-hosting providers and data center operators, Hetzner Online is using ADVA Optical Networking's 100G coherent solution to respond to fierce growth in video traffic and other bandwidth-intensive applications. Hetzner Online was able to rapidly deploy the ADVA 100G Core by plugging it into its existing 10G network.

8 May 2013

Petabit Communication Realized Using Multiple Spatial Modes in Optical Fibres

A professor from the University of Southampton has been awarded a highly prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.

29 Apr 2013

Seaborn Networks Establishes First Brazil Gateway in Equinix's IBX Data Center

Seaborn Networks, the developer and operator of the first direct Sao Paulo – US cable system (Seabras-1), today announced it is establishing its first Brazil gateway in Equinix's International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Equinix's facility in Sao Paulo (SP2) provides data center services to customers in Latin America, and offers critical overseas connectivity to the financial and commercial center of the United States.

22 Apr 2013

TCC Group Rebranded as AFL Services Europe Limited

Following the integration of TCC Group into AFL, a provider of fibre optic cable, components and services, TCC will now be known as AFL Services Europe Limited, assuming the AFL brand. The integration reinforces AFL as a global services company focused on end-to-end support of critical infrastructure.

16 Apr 2013

ADVA Optical Networking’s 100G Coherent Transport Selected by Kabel Deutschland

ADVA Optical Networking SE / Kabel Deutschland Chooses ADVA Optical Networking for 10G/100G Nationwide Network.

10 Apr 2013

AT&T Prepared to Build Advanced 1 Gigabit Fiber Optic Infrastructure in Austin, Texas

AT&T Inc. said today that it is pleased to see local communities and municipalities acknowledging the promise and power of economic development associated with telecommunications investment.

10 Apr 2013

Hurricane Electric Purchases Zayo’s 100G Wavelength Services

Zayo Group today announced that Hurricane Electric Internet Services, the world's largest IPv6-native internet backbone, has purchased 100G Wavelength services on Zayo's newly installed 100G routes.

10 Apr 2013

Lightwave Logic Perkinamine Indigo Optical Coating Holds Promise for Microelectronics Applications

Lightwave Logic, Inc., a technology company focused on the development of a Next Generation Non Linear Optical Polymer Materials Platform and Optical Devices for applications in high speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing, announced today that preliminary testing results on devices recently coated with Perkinamine Indigo™ demonstrated several of the key performance parameters desired by our potential microelectronics customer.

3 Apr 2013

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