In Summly we trust, Flipping the magazines, Math Madness, Say no to contracts & iPhone comes to T-Mobile, plus cable cuts slow down the Internet and links to web-world greatness. A look back at the week in tech Read more »
Three men were arrested for planning to cut an undersea cable, according to published reports. The arrests by the Egyptian Government raise more questions than answers, for this is an atypical event when it comes to undersea cable cuts. Read more »
Flag Telecom, an undersea cable operator owned by India’s Reliance Communications has cancelled its $1 billion IPO due to market conditions. The failure to launch has implications for its debt laden parent, which is trying desperately to find a way out of a $7 billion mess. Read more »
This fall we have seen a number of companies announce their experiments and tests with 100 Gbps networks, especially over long haul networks. Today Chinese telecom behemoth Huawei showed off its latest efforts, conducted in partnership with Corning, a maker of optical cables and television glass. Read more »
An optical transmission under the Atlantic at 100 Gbps – that sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Today, Hibernia Atlantic, a network operator and Chinese hardware maker Huawei did just that – the first 100Gbps optical transmission across the Atlantic. Infinera did the same under the Pacific. Read more »
TeliaSonera, a Scandinavian-based telephone company, has conducted a trial for an optical network that saw a terabit speed optical transmission based on 500 gigabit per second super channels. The trial used Infinera gear and was conducted between Los Angeles and San Jose, Calif. Read more »
A research team at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has come up with a new optical amplifier that can help boost the efficiency of backhaul optical networks, a move that could have a big impact on the overall economics of bandwidth. Read more »
Internet traffic has grown 62 percent in 2010, after logging a handsome 74 percent growth in 2009. The growth in traffic is coming from non-mature markets likes Eastern Europe and India where traffic growth is over 100 percent. But what does it mean? Read more »
For those of us who’ve been following the rise of optical networks, today will go down as a red-letter day for the industry. Nortel, whose name has long been synonymous with optical networking gear, has announced it will sell off its Metro Ethernet Networks (optical and […] Read more »
Google buys a piece of another subsea cable in Asia. This one is called Southeast Asian Japan Cable (SJC) and is of intra-Asian nature. Read more »
