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FIRA WIRE DAY 3: China Mobile, Saudi Telecom, SK Telecom, Huawei
MWC 2019, Day Three: Small Cell Forum; APIs for open RAN; China Mobile drives 5G interoperability; Saudi tags Nokia; Huawei and two MoUs; SK Telecom wins GLOMO. Read more…
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Telstra unveils boost in fibre capacity for Asia-Pac customers
Telstra and Infinera have unveiled a major boost to Telstra’s network services for customers in Asia Pacific, with a significant increase in fibre capacity. Read more…
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Infinera and Seaborn claim long-haul subsea spectral efficiency record
Infinera and subsea cable operator Seaborn Networks have completed a subsea field trial demonstrating what they say is the industry’s highest spectral efficiency on an ultra-long-haul subsea cable. The 8QAM trial demonstrated 4.5 bits per Read more…
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Infinera adds cloud-scale metro packet-optical platform to XTM family
Infinera has unveiled a metro edge packet-optical platform that it says is optimized for bandwidth-intensive cloud-scale applications at the metro edge such as remote PHY, 5G transport and data center interconnect (DCI). Infinera says the XTM Read more…
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NEC/Netcracker, Infinera and Juniper release automated transport SDN
NEC and Netcracker Technology have announced a partnership with Infinera and Juniper Networks to release a new transport SDN solution that enables end-to-end network automation and control. The new solution leverages Infinera’s intelligent transport networks, Read more…
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Infinera’s Instant Network promises automated capacity provisioning in minutes
Infinera has announced a new software defined capacity (SDC) solution called Instant Network that promises to reduce bandwidth provisioning time for transport networks from months to minutes. Instant Network promises service providers the ability to Read more…
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Infinera launches flexible fronthaul future-proofed for 5G
Infinera has launched a new batch of 5G-ready mobile fronthaul solutions for cellcos with the aim of giving them more flexible deployment options and alleviating concerns about installing fronthaul gear ahead of eventual 5G upgrades. The Read more…
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Infinera aims to unite telco, web networks with “cloud scale” architecture
Infinera has unveiled several new products and upgrades for its DTN-X portfolio designed to enable “cloud scale” network architectures – which is to say, architectures that can handle the scale requirements of both data center networks Read more…