Fremont, CA – March 4, 2010 – The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is hosting a Components Showcase in Booth #3041 at OFC/NFOEC in San Diego, CA this month. The Components Showcase will display components, modules, and/or other hardware supporting the OIF Physical and Link Layer 100G projects focused on Integrated Photonics Transmitters and Receivers, Forward Error Correction, and Transponders. OIF member companies that will be participating include Fujitsu Optical Components, NEC, NeoPhotonics, Opnext, Picometrix, Sumitomo Osaka Cement, TriQuint Semiconductor, u2t, and Vitesse Semiconductor.
“The OIF is pleased to bring together these member companies, working to develop components based on the OIF 100G projects now being defined,” said Rod Smith, Tyco Electronics and the OIF Market Awareness & Education Committee Co-Chair. “Our members are leading the charge to bring 100G products to market.”
The 100G projects being defined in the OIF cove a number of building blocks for long more…
Nortel MEN transaction expected to close by end of March
Linthicum, MD — 03/04/2010 — Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced unaudited results for its fiscal first quarter ended January 31, 2010. Revenue for the fiscal first quarter 2010 totaled $175.9 million, which compares to $167.4 million for the fiscal first quarter 2009.
On the basis of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), Ciena’s net loss for the fiscal first quarter 2010 was $(53.3) million, or $(0.58) per common share, which compares to a GAAP net loss of $(24.8) million, or $(0.27) per diluted common share for the fiscal first quarter of 2009. The fiscal first quarter 2010 included $27.0 million in acquisition and integration-related expenses associated with the pending acquisition of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. Ciena’s adjusted (non-GAAP) net loss for the fiscal first quarter more…
Sunnyvale, CA – March 1, 2010 – Infinera (NASDAQ:INFN) will showcase its new ATN metro edge platform at the SCTE Canadian Summit in Toronto next week. Infinera’s ATN platform is designed to interwork seamlessly with Infinera’s market-leading DTN platform to provide point-and-click services across any CATV network.
The SCTE Canadian Summit takes place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on March 9th and 10th.
Infinera pioneered Digital Optical Networks with the Infinera DTN, a Digital ROADM based on large-scale photonic integration. With the new ATN platform, Infinera now offers an end-to-end solution providing scalable optical transport from the metro edge through regional networks and across the national backbone. The ATN has been deployed by service providers in the U.S. and Europe, including one of the top five U.S. cable operators. The Infinera DTN is already widely deployed by MSOs, including all of the top five U.S. more…
Enables online audiences of media companies to embed and share premium online video across leading social networks
Lets consumers easily share clips or segments of premium video and maintains business relationships between content owners and advertisers
Available to customers of thePlatform through Player Development Kit 4.2
SEATTLE and SAN FRANCISCO – March 3, 2010 – At the “TV of Tomorrow Show 2010” today in San Francisco, thePlatform, the leading white-label video publishing company, unveiled a new social media player enabling media companies to embed and share premium online video across leading social networks. In addition, thePlatform’s newest Player Development Kit (PDK 4.2) provides standard features that enable consumers to more easily share their favorite clips of premium online video, while preserving the financial obligations between content owners, advertisers and distributors.
“With the right tools in place, more…
As the world looks to communicate more efficiently Esat Sezer sits down with Meettheboss.tv to discuss integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) for over 70k mobile employees. Esat Sezer is the current SVP and CIO with Coca Cola Enterprises and has been working with them since 2006.
When Esat explained this difficult task that he accomplished in under nine months to Adam Burns of meettheboss.tv, Esat explained there were a number of key factors that needed to come together to create the perfect WOW factor. For Esat it was stepping away from the traditional methods and in the Software as a Service method “it was the ease of use standpoint that exceeded my expectations. The speed of development and deployment standpoint also had the wow fact.” Lastly the speed of adoption by the user community, the wow factor was there.
These concepts had not been there more…
(Scottsdale, AZ) At a time when sales goals seem unattainable and new business hard to come by, PlanetOne blew past the industry’s perceived obstacles to emerge as the frontrunner in XO’s Top Ten Business Partners for 2009. The announcement was made in late January by XO’s then channel chief Jim Delis.
Ted Schuman, PlanetOne Founder and CEO, is honored to be recognized for this achievement, while giving accolades to the other nine partner companies included in the winning roster.
“We worked hard this past year, but XO’s product makes our job easy,” Schuman said. “And it’s our goal to maintain our leadership position with them through 2010.”
The annual XO Business Partner honors are based on new sales and customer retention, according to Brian Law, XO’s new channel chief, and the competition is highly sought after by the agent community industry-wide.
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Establishing communications for a group of American doctors who have rushed to Haiti to aid victims of the massive earthquake that shook this region recently, Business Mobility™ Systems, a new breed of Unified Communications service provider, supported by solutions from Ingate® Systems, has swiftly deployed a Unified Communications solution for these medical professionals as a replacement for the country’s destroyed traditional telephony infrastructure.
Business Mobility™ Systems is working directly with Dr. Troy Silvernale, a surgeon, and his team from Advantage Health Physician Network, a progressive network of doctors in Michigan. Dr. Silvernale and his colleagues needed a stable communications system set up quickly for their immediate deployment to Haiti. Business Mobility Systems, using Ingate solutions, provided them with an end-to-end Unified Communications solution to enable voice calls over IP (VoIP), texting capability and Internet access.
Dr. Silvernale and his team are using Nokia E-71 smartphones equipped more…
CN 4200 module plays key role in the service provider’s new Agility Guarantee program that delivers unmatched service level agreements for critical, high-bandwidth applications
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. & LINTHICUM, Md. — Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN - News), the network specialist, today announced that AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE: ABVT - News), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has deployed Ciena’s 2RS module for the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform as part of the service provider’s recently introduced Agility Guarantee program, which provides industry-leading ultra-low latency service level agreements (SLAs). The CN 4200 module helps lower delays in optical connections by up to 20 percent, enabling AboveNet to offer its customers high bandwidth connectivity with optimum speed and performance for critical, latency-sensitive applications, such as algorithmic or futures trading, VoIP and video.
AboveNet serves its business and carrier customers over a private fiber optic network that delivers network more…
Paris and Eschborn, March 2, 2010
Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world’s leading providers of integrated logistics services, has signed a 3-year contract extension with Orange Business Services. Kuehne + Nagel has implemented Business VPN, a fully-managed, secure, global IP infrastructure from Orange Business Services in order to have fully-managed MPLS services as part of the overall global Kuehne + Nagel network, which is based on leased lines, Ethernet and DSL technologies. It also includes three network-based Internet gateways, four data centers and Kuehne + Nagel’s e-mail hub.
Global availability and reliability of the Orange network were key decision criteria behind Kuehne + Nagel renewing its agreement with Orange Business Services. Kuehne + Nagel offers integrated logistics services across the globe that are based on a sophisticated technology platform. The IT supported supply chain management services represent a significant competitive advantage for the company.
“Orange more…
Windstream deploys Hatteras Networks Ethernet over copper and Ethernet over TDM solution to delivery Ethernet services
Nation’s fifth-largest carrier aggressively deploying ubiquitous Ethernet Business Services in-region and in competitive markets
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, March 1, 2010 — Hatteras Networks, the global leader in multi-service Ethernet solutions for enterprise access services and next-generation mobile backhaul, announced today that Windstream Corporation (NASDAQ: WIN), the fifth-largest carrier in the United States, has standardized upon and deployed a Hatteras Networks solution for Ethernet service delivery over both copper (EoC) and Time Division Multiplexing (EoTDM) infrastructure. The unified Hatteras Networks solution, the HN6100, delivering up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth, enables delivery of any Ethernet service over any media.
“The Hatteras Networks solution offered a reliable, flexible option for quickly deploying Ethernet services to our business customers,” said Bill Bellando, vice president of network services, Windstream Corporation. “In addition, we were more…
