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Ciena’s Blue Planet division offers commercial version of ON.Lab ONOS open source software
PPC Broadband acquires m2fx New York based PPC Broadband, a Belden company and leader in cable and wireless broadband connectivity, has acquired UK cable manufacturer, m2fx, for an undisclosed sum. m2fx managing director, Tom Carpenter, has described the transaction as “a merger of two innovative companies which have complementary product lines.” Scott Jackson to lead Infinera Subsea Business Group Infinera recently announced Scott Jackson as vice president, responsible for the company’s Subsea Business Group. “We are delighted to have Scott on board to lead our subsea business group,” said Tom Fallon, Infinera CEO. “His expertise in high-complexity opto-electronic technology and submarine transmission systems will help accelerate Infinera’s development of enhanced solutions for subsea, a vital part of long-haul telecom and content networks.” Scott will focus on enabling subsea network operators to maximise capacity and reach on their subsea cables, reduce operational expense and to deploy services faster than competing systems. Nokia Networks and Telecom Italia search for start-ups Operator Telecom Italia vendor and Nokia Network will start working together to uncover start-ups working on NFV, SDN, and next-generation RAN and SON technologies. Sandro Dionisi, Executive Vice President and Director of Global Advisory Services at Telecom Italia, said: “Collaborating with Nokia Networks on this scouting program will open up the opportunity to introduce new network technologies in strategic areas, faster than before, guaranteeing the support of a leading OEM like Nokia Networks. The initiative will give us access to innovators, mainly but not only in Silicon Valley, speed up and improve technical development, leading to newer and better services for our consumers.” NEWS IN BRIEF
C iena have announced plans to offer a fully-supported commercial version of the Open Networking Operating System (ONOS) open-source software, Blue Planet ONOS, which will extend Ciena’s Blue Planet network orchestration software to enable highly- scalable, flow-based control of data centre networks. ONOS, backed by ON.Lab and several leading service providers and vendors, is a complete open source, carrier- grade, SDN operating system that enables agile service creation and deployment at scale on any hardware, with a scalable control plane that features open APIs to support management, control and service applications across mission-critical networks. Service providers will be able to take advantage of the cumulative software expertise of the open source community, with any enhancements made for customer engagements L umentum Holdings has announced that it has achieved an industry milestone by shipping its one millionth, latest generation, 980nm pump laser. The advanced pump laser platform is being deployed in optical accomplished twice as fast as the previous generation, and is a great accomplishment for Lumentum and the Optical Communications team,” said Doug Alteen, vice president, product line management, Telecom. “Pump lasers, which power optical amplifiers, are an integral part of next generation networks worldwide. “This milestone was
goal is to provide end customers with next-generation, on-demand services and content that leverage a lower cost web-scale infrastructure. Ciena’s Blue Planet ONOS, which will align with the Falcon release of ONOS, is projected to be available in the first calendar quarter of 2016. First released in December 2014, ONOS is catching the attention of the service provider community as it develops rapidly. Guru Parulkar, co- founder and executive director ON.Lab and chairman of the ONOS board, said: “We are excited that Ciena, a recognised leader and advocate for open, programmable networks, will bring this vision to market with Blue Planet ONOS and really appreciate its commitment to contributing bug fixes and enhancements back to open source. In one short year, we have gone from inception to commercial maturity – this is a validation of the power of open source innovation.”
being fed back into the open source community. “As with all Blue Planet software development and support, Ciena embarked on this effort with the LINUX Foundation and ON.Lab as a result of customer demand and engagements. Ciena’s support of ONOS re-affirms our commitment to open source technology and reflects our position as a leader in the global, software- based network transformation movement.” Said Mike Hatfield, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Blue Planet, Ciena and Director on the ONOS Project Board of Directors. The Blue Planet ONOS is initially focused on the Central Office Re-Architected as a Data Centre (CORD) project. CORD provides the framework for service providers to re-architect their traditional central offices into next-generation data centres. This will allow service providers to use SDN and virtualisation technologies to achieve much greater network and service programmability. The ultimate
Lumentum achieves industry milestone
and 15xx nanometer series products, deployed in Raman amplification, offer operating powers up to 600 mW in wavelengths covering the C band and L band. “The 980-nanometer laser platform is ideal for the growing markets that require the highest performance and reliability at lowest cost per milliwatts,” said Jay Skidmore, senior director, R&D, High Power Lasers. “Its progressive optical design, hermetic packaging, power scalability, and lean manufacturing are all easily extended to smaller form factors demanded by our end- user customers.”
optical networks. Lumentum 980nm pump lasers have already accumulated over 12 billion device field hours, demonstrating exceptional performance and reliability.” Derived from a revolutionary semi-cooled (45ºC) platform, the 980nm pump laser significantly reduces power consumption and enables operation in extreme physical environments. Lumentum offers a full portfolio of pump lasers for optical amplification. The 980nm series products support erbium-doped fibre amplifiers operating from 100 mW to 900 mW power levels. The 14xx nanometer
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