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Byline: Staff Reporter RAIPUR: A senior professor of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (PRSU) has been caught for swindling crores of rupees from people on the pretext of jobs. Accused Aalekh [...]

As network operators extend their optical networks globally, they are also driving higher-speed links into smaller end-user sites to enable high-value applications for consumers, businesses, and government organizations alike. Video [...]

Though the largest incumbent carriers, Verizon and AT&T, are bullish on the use ofmultidegree reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) in the near term, they aren't the only customers in the [...]

As the telecom industry awakens from its nuclear winter, the ghost of concepts past--delivering multiple layers of services over a converged IP/MPLS network--is being resurrected in the form of a […]

Byline: Ed Gubbins Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, or ROADMs, were a big part of the optical product activity at the last two Supercomms, and the same is true of Globalcomm [...]

Ciena is introducing a half-size version of the 4200 multiservice transport platform (MSTP) it unveiled a year ago. The CN 4200 MC (MC for 'micro') MSTP is four inches tall [...]

Byline: Ed Gubbins At this year's Supercomm, like the year before it, a raft of equipment vendors introduced new reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers. Or ROADM modules. Or enhancements to existing [...]

Byline: Ed Gubbins Ciena introduced a new multiservice transport platform today along with a new network 'architecture' comprised of hardware and management and operations software that aims to give service [...]

A few weeks ago, I had the distinction of being the first reporter ever to visit Sprint's network operations center in Overland Park, Kan., while the company experienced a fiber [...]

Paris - Alcatel says that its high-availability software package will deliver nonstop Internet Protocol routing in the core. With "five nines" (99.999 percent) reliability in mind, Alcatel built its ACEIS […]

Imagine developing a big-ticket networking product targeted to a hundred customers at most. Then imagine watching a major part of your customers' marketplace fall apart. This is the predicament facing […]

The show floor at this year's SuperComm, held in an unusually sunny Chicago in mid-June, bustled with talk of multiservice technologies aimed at carriers looking for ways to profitably combine [...]

Last April, Alcatel (Paris) introduced a nonstop IP routing technology. The Alcatel Carrier Environment Internet System (ACEIS) was designed to overcome the limitations of current-generation IP routers--its 7770 Routing Core [...]

Extensions to standards currently support Ethernet over SONET/SDH using virtual concatenation, Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS), and a modified 10-Gigabit Ethernet called a WAN PHY interface, which fits into the [...]

For the last 20 years or so, SONET/SDH has remained the optical infrastructure of choice for almost all critical network architectures. However, the number of new optical services has grown [...]

Reconfigurable optical networks offer distinct operational benefits in terms of lower costs, reduced planning, higher network utilization, and ease of installation. The ability to provision a service quickly in response [...]

Aimed at telco, cable, enterprise, and government network operators, Ciena's (Linthicum, MD) CN 4200 FlexSelect advanced services platform is a multiservice transport and service aggregation system that the company says [...]

Plano, Texas-based Alcatel USA Inc. (www.usa.alcatel.com) has a new strategy for making IP profitable. The trend in data communications has been a 'get back to basics' strategy for carriers and […]