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Nokia is acquiring Elenion Technologies, a US-based company focusing on silicon photonics technology, to boost its optical capabilities in new markets. Elenion’s technology expertise and unique design platform and services will enable Nokia to expand its market footprint by addressing the critical and rapidly evolving optical connectivity requirements of 5G, cloud and enterprise networking, Nokia said. Huawei Marine Networks (HMN) has sealed a deal to construct a new submarine cable for the Maldives Sri Lanka Cable system (MSC). The system will facilitate a direct connection between the Maldives and Sri Lanka, and as a result increase regional capacity and network diversity. MSC is a four fibre pairs system, equipped with HMN high-output titanium housing repeaters to achieve span length over 130km. It will be ready for service by year-end 2020 with the delivery period therefore less than 11 months. The project consortium of investors include Ooredoo Maldives PLC (Ooredoo Maldives), Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun PLC (Dhiraagu) and Dialog Axiata PLC (Dialog). The project backers said: “This cable represents another milestone in the development of the region’s commitment to facilitate and promote the benefits of the
digital economy for local communities in both the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Huawei Marine Networks chief executive Mike Constable said: “We are pleased to be working again with our partners to deliver fast, reliable telecommunications infrastructure, to further promote economic development and satisfy the growing demand for connectivity in this important region.” Last month, Huawei Marine said it breached the 100 mark in terms of contracts won, including new builds and upgrade projects, since it was formed. “The stable performance of over ten contracts in 2019 brings us noticeable growth in the global submarine cable market,” it said.
which enables a “greatly simplified, low cost, scalable manufacturing process, it said. The Elenion platform is designed to simplify integration with optical chipsets, lower power consumption, improve port density and help lower the overall cost per bit for network operators. Sam Bucci, head of optical networking at Nokia, said, “As a world-class provider of silicon photonics solutions, advanced packaging and custom design services, It also supports hardware- based timing for ultra- precise frequency and phase synchronisation, “making it the ideal choice for radio access networks,” said ADVA. With its high-density and environmentally hardened design, the ADVA FSP 150- XG400 Series is also easy to deploy in space-restrictive locations with no temperature control – a key requirement for the rollout of 5G The ADVA FSP 150-XG400 Series enables businesses and mobile network operators (MNOs) to easily scale their metro networks and tackle booming bandwidth demand, says ADVA. Specifically engineered to deliver MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet 100Gbps demarcation and 10Gbps service aggregation, the new product family features the market’s only uncompromised line-rate 100Gbps activation testing.
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Elenion provides a strong strategic fit for Nokia. Its solutions can be readily integrated into Nokia’s product offerings to address multiple high growth segments including 5G, cloud and data centre networking.” He said, “When combined with Nokia, Elenion technologies will accelerate the growth and scale of Nokia’s optical networking business, while enabling us to cost-effectively address new markets.” Stephan Rettenberger, SVP of marketing and investor relations at ADVA, said, “The arrival of 5G is bringing unprecedented data speeds, but mobile applications can only be as fast as the backhaul network. That’s why MNOs are now looking to upgrade their access infrastructure from 10Gbps to 100Gbps line rates.” smooth and extremely cost- effective migration to higher capacity while also enabling the distribution of precise network synchronisation that next-generation services require.” The supplier has also just posted its full-year results, and has reported that for the full-year 2019, revenues increased by 10.9% to €556.8 million from €502 m million in 2018. He said, “Our FSP 150- XG400 Series supports a
Nokia optical acquisition to support new markets
“Ownership of these key assets brings time-to-market and cost advantages to Nokia’s broad portfolio of networking solutions, by applying the massive scale and economies of silicon design and manufacturing to the optical supply chain,” said Nokia. Elenion develops highly integrated, low-cost silicon photonics technologies for short-reach and high- performance optical interfaces, and has pioneered a design toolset
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