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We broke a(nother) record! Today Infinera announced our successful live
#network
trial of
#800G
single-wavelength transmission over 950 km across a
#longhaul
span in a major
#NorthAmerican
#networkoperator
’s production network. Learn about our achievement
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The combination of advanced optical fiber and evolving coherent transponder technology enables superior transmission performance. On
@lightwaveonline
,
@Corning
and Infinera explore how this partnership can deliver the capacity needed now and in the future.
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#Infinera
’s
#disruptive
#disaggregated
#routing
solutions can drive 50% lower costs in
#5G
and
#DAA
#networks
. Visit us at
#Futurecom
2019 and learn more about this and other
#innovations
like revolutionary
#autotuneable
#optics
for access and aggregation.
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#CompactModular
is disrupting the optical industry with significantly lower operating costs, unprecedented scale, and a new level of automation and programmability. Join Infinera’s Fady Masoud for a webinar exploring this new category of platforms:
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Our
#1
reason to deploy
#600G
generation
#coherenttechnology
now? It’s available at volume, ready to help network operators improve their network economics as traffic continues to grow. Get reasons 2-5 from Paul Momtahan on the Infinera blog:
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#5G
service evolution is driving transport network migration, with enhanced capabilities and performance being rolled out on a phased basis. In a new webinar,
@JonBaldry70
will share key trends in transport infrastructure migration to support 5G services:
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Infinera recently performed a field trial over the
#MAREA
#submarine
cable with
#ICE6
, producing two record results! Find out how we achieved 30 Tb/s of total trans-Atlantic capacity on a single fiber pair and the first trans-Atlantic 700 Gb/s wavelength:
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Bandwidth demands and the high rate of fiber cuts force Indian network operators to overbuild their networks. Join us as we explore innovative and standards-based optical technologies and architectures that allow operators to reroute traffic. Learn more!
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We have reached peak
#router
. Time to
#disaggregate
? Learn about the benefits and enablers that make the probability of
#disaggregated
routing
#disrupting
the traditional monolithic router market extremely high, if not inevitable, on the
#Infinera
blog:
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Over 400
#submarine
cables cross the world’s seas and oceans, carrying both public and private network traffic. On 9/17, Infinera’s Geoff Bennett will present a webinar looking at the trends driving
#subsea
traffic growth and cable design – register now!
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Today we announced the completion of a live network trial that achieved
#800G
single-wavelength transmission over 730 km across
@Windstream
’s long-haul network between San Diego and Phoenix. Learn more about this industry-leading real-world performance:
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Several talks at
#OFC21
focused on where we are relative to the Shannon limit–just 2 dB away for high-end coherent transceivers–and what the options are for getting closer to it. Read about several possibilities and get other insights from the event:
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#AutoTune
may not be great for artistic integrity in the music industry, but that doesn’t mean the
#opticalnetworking
industry can’t use similar concepts to benefit end customers. Learn about
#autotuneable
#optics
in
@JonBaldry70
’s’s new blog post:
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#Infinera
can help you deploy a high-performance
#5G
#edgenetwork
with
#disruptive
#optical
and
#disaggregated
#routing
technologies. See our
#disaggregatedrouting
platforms that break vendor lock-in and accelerate
#innovation
and scale at
#OFC20
:
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#Router
#disaggregation
lowers the barrier to entry for vendors, significantly increasing price competition, and enables
#network
operators to mix and match the best hardware and software for a given use case. Paul Momtahan explains on the
#Infinera
blog:
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Today
#Infinera
announced our collaboration with
@TelecomInfraP
and
@EdgecoreNetwork
to achieve market adoption of carrier-class
#Disaggregated
Cell Site Gateways technology with the first large-scale commercial deployment by
@Telefonica
. Learn more
#DCSG
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#Infinera
's
#DRXSeries
#disaggregated
#router
family combines carrier-class
#whiteboxes
with our field-proven, scalable CNOS, enabling
@Telefonica
Deutschland to prepare its nationwide mobile transport network for
#5G
with scale, efficiency and
#automation
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#Network
operators need to refocus on
#synchronization
to prepare for Phase 2
#5G
services that require advanced RAN capabilities and thus demanding sync performance. Learn more in our new blog post, and see us next week at
@Light_Reading
#5GTransportEdge
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The golden age of
#streaming
content isn’t ending anytime soon – learn how announcements from
#CES2020
like those from
@Apple
and
@Quibi
will drive more and more
#bandwidth
demands from edge to core in
@russfordyce
’s new post on the
#Infinera
blog:
@CES
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Join us for a free webinar to discuss new operating models redefining optical networks in India.
Click the link to register today!
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Explore a new era of open transport networking in our upcoming
@CignalAI
webinar–learn how Infinera is delivering on the promise of
#openoptical
networking and get
@Telefonica
’s insights on the benefits and challenges of
#openoptical
adoption. Sign up now!
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What do service providers think the next five years of traffic growth will look like in various segments of the network? Find out, and get other key insights from a new
@acg_r
open optical networking report, from
@DoironTim
on the Infinera blog:
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Today we announced the delivery of an
#800G
single
#wavelength
with
#Infinera
#ICE6
technology across 800 km on
@CorningOpComm
’s TXF
#opticalfiber
, demonstrating the benefits of an industry-leading coherent
#800G
solution with superior fiber. Learn more:
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Optical networks require two fundamental technologies: fiber optic cables and lasers. Register for Infinera’s upcoming webinar, hosted by Geoff Bennett, and learn how these two different technologies work together to deliver so much value to our society:
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Where do service providers prefer to acquire
#400G
pluggable optics with an
#IPoDWDM
solution?
@DoironTim
answers this and other questions in his new blog post recapping key findings from
@Heavy_Reading
’s Infinera-sponsored
#400G
,
#800G
and Beyond report:
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Infinera is excited to announce that our Optical Innovation Team has received the 2021 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award from
@OpticalSociety
for the design, development, and commercial deployment of ICE6. Learn more about this achievement:
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Sync is a complex topic and can be a significant challenge for network operators, so one benefit of a live event is being able to have post-presentation discussions with attendees. Get more takeaways from
@ITSFevent
from
@JonBaldry70
on the Infinera blog:
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.
@GEANTnews
, Europe’s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for research and education, has completed a live
#800G
trial on its pan-European production network with Infinera's ICE6-powered GX Series. Learn more:
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Since its introduction in the early 2000s,
#ROADM
technology has undergone a series of evolutions. Find out what is driving this evolution and some of the key component-level innovation enablers in a new post from Paul Momtahan on the Infinera blog:
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Probabilistic constellation shaping delivers a combination of
#wavelength
data rate and
#optical
reach that is close to the theoretical capacity limit of a given cable. But all
#PCS
implementations are not created equal. Learn more on the
#Infinera
blog:
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Do pluggable and embedded coherent optical engines both have a role in the future of IP-optical networking? Find out the answer to this and other key questions about coherent evolution from Paul Momtahan on the Infinera blog.
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Network operators are exploring ways to scale while leveraging existing network assets and rearchitecting the network to cope with connectivity challenges from cloud, 5G, and MEC. Learn how innovations like XR optics can help from Infinera’s Fady Masoud:
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We are scaling for the next wave of global network spending as we officially announce our intent to acquire
@Coriant
!
#joiningforces
#opticalnetwork
#optical
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Infinera’s
@ChrisUremovic
recently had his first face-to-face customer meetings since lockdown, and on the blog, he shares the challenges and trends he observed. Read why optical networks are becoming more strategic to operators and get more key takeaways:
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At
@lightwaveonline
and
@BTReport
’s High Speed Networking Event, Infinera’s Harald Bock will join
@comcast
and American Tower to discuss new transmission technologies to increase capacity and efficiency while reducing cost and power consumption. Sign up:
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#Infinera
set the performance standard with a record-breaking 26.2 terabits per second per fiber over MAREA, a 6,600-km trans-Atlantic
#submarine
cable. Join us at
#SubmarineNetworksWorld
2019 and learn how we can help you unlock
#subsea
#capacity
:
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Today
#Infinera
introduced
#XRoptics
, the industry’s first point-to-multipoint coherent
#subcarrier
aggregation technology optimized for hub-and-spoke traffic patterns, paving the way for a paradigm shift in
#transport
#network
architectures. Learn more:
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#XRoptics
is challenging conventional
#network
architecture - rather than operators having to worry about port speed and matching transceivers on each end of a fiber,
#networks
become a simple “N x
#subcarrier
” equation. Learn more on the Infinera blog:
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In space-division multiplexing,
#subsea
cables with higher numbers of fiber pairs are deployed to meet growing
#ICP
demand and lower cost per bit. Join
#Infinera
for a
@LightReading
webinar with speakers from
@CorningOpComm
and
@facebook
and learn more:
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Thanks to ICE6’s stellar performance over all fiber types, customers across market segments are using this technology to meet ever-growing demand for transmission capacity. Learn about the benefits they have realized from Infinera’s Geoff Bennett:
#800G
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Exciting news - today we announced that Infinera and
@TeliaCarrier
performed the first successful real-time single-wavelength 600G transmission in a live production network using Infinera’s ICE5 optical engine. Learn more:
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It was an honor to host
@SenBobCasey
at our advanced optical compound semiconductor packaging facility in PA. Our semiconductors are key to critical infrastructure and national security and we’re proud to be one of the few producing them in the U.S.
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Different
#wavelengths
experience different impairments, even along the exact same transmission path. How do we mitigate this variation?
#SDFEC
gain sharing. Learn more about this
#Infinera
#innovation
in our new blog post from Paul Momtahan:
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We’re pleased to announce today that we’ve closed our acquisition of Coriant, positioning us as one of the largest fully vertically integrated optical network equipment providers in the world. Read what CEO Tom Fallon & our customers have to say:
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Compact modular platforms are raising the bar on performance, operational flexibility, and
#automation
in the
#opticalnetworking
industry. Learn the top five reasons why they are redefining
#optical
#networking
in
#Infinera
’s new blog post:
#compactmodular
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Infinera and
@Hetzner_Online
, a leading web hosting and data center operator in Germany, have announced the deployment of Infinera’s ICE6 solution, capable of transmission speeds of up to 800 Gb/s, on Hetzner Online’s nationwide network. Learn more:
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Fast service turn-up and service agility are key differentiators that help carriers stand out in an ultra-competitive market. Learn how Instant Bandwidth enables these and more in a Q&A with
@MFridstrom
, Chief Evangelist at
@TeliaCarrier
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#5G
network deployment drivers are shifting as we move beyond faster speeds and toward advanced 5G functions. Learn how to meet these challenges in transport networks from Infinera’s
@JonBaldry70
in a
@Heavy_Reading
webinar. Register now
@Light_Reading
:
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Missed Dave Welch’s
#OFC20
keynote yesterday? Watch the replay for a look back at 50 years of discovery in
#fiberoptics
, and forward to how
#networks
will evolve to meet the future demands of consumers and the growing number of machines we rely on!
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Today on
#WomenInScience
Day,
#Infinera
is proud to honor one of our own! Gloria Hoefler was recently named a
#SPIE
Fellow for her work in LED and quantum cascade laser manufacturing. Learn more about her incredible achievement
@SPIEtweets
@WomenScienceDay
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.
@Hetzner_Online
’s deployment of Infinera’s ICE6 solution will modernize their existing network and enable them to offer new 400 GbE services across their network to meet the surging bandwidth demands of their customers. Find out more:
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Relentless technological advancements, exponential data growth, and today’s ever-expanding array of digital applications/services necessitate a resounding call for innovation in data center interconnect. Infinera’s
@DoironTim
has more on
@TelecomReviewNA
:
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay2023
! Diversity is one of our greatest strengths as a global team, and we embrace fostering equity and inclusion. Thank you to all the women and allies at Infinera and beyond who are advancing equity for women in tech!
#IWD2023
#IWD
#EmbraceEquity
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On Monday at the
@IEEEPhotonics
Conference, Infinera’s Gloria Hoefler will join a panel of experts from
@SMARTPhotonics
,
@SUNYPolyInst
/
@AIMPhotonics
,
@LIGENTECPIC
, and
@CMCMicrosystems
for a virtual roundtable on
#photonic
foundries. Learn more:
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Pete Dale, Infinera VP of Sales, Cloud and Content, introduces the Infinera Cloud Xpress 2 for data center interconnect
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Today we announced the expansion of our open optical portfolio with metro-optimized 400G pluggable optics-based solutions for the Infinera XTM Series and GX Series Compact Modular Platforms, bringing enhanced flexibility and economics to metro networks.
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@aschmitt
and
@ScottWilkinsonQ
– it was our pleasure hosting you for the live demonstration of our ICE6 optical engine. We’re very excited about the progress we’re making on bringing ICE6 to market.
Thanks to $INFN for the invitation so see a real working demo of the ICE6 DSP and PIC today. Very promising progress on a complicated product. Look for more details later from Cignal AI.
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2021 was a milestone year for transport network disaggregation, but more work is needed to achieve wide commercialization. At
@Light_Reading
#OpticalNetworking
Digital Symposium, Infinera’s
@ChrisUremovic
will discuss the future of open optical. Register:
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We’re honored to win the
#MEF18
Multi-Vendor Innovation Award for our end-to-end multi-layer Transport SDN solution with
@NetcrackerTech
! It leverages OIF/MEF standards to enable programmable transport over multi-vendor/domain network infrastructure
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At Infinera, we build equipment and software to generate high-performance
#optical
transmission, but there is another side to the optical transport equation: the
#fiberoptic
cable itself. Learn how they work from
@russfordyce
and
@CorningOpComm
.
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.
@XarxaOberta
has deployed Infinera’s XTM Series to meet the growing broadband demands of government networks across the Catalonia region in Spain, enabling the leading network provider to provide up to 400 GbE services on its fiber optic network. More:
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Leading web hosting and data center operator in Germany
@Hetzner_Online
announced the deployment of our XTS-3300 to extend operations into Finland with a
#subsea
#optical
network. Read the announcement here:
#datacenter
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Infinera's record field transmission distance of 400 Gb/s using a QSFP-DD pluggable over
@ArelionCompany
’s live production network is a major engineering and operational achievement. On the blog, Fady Masoud shares the secret sauce of how we did it:
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In an industry-first milestone,
@TeliaCarrier
has achieved single-wavelength 600G transmission with Infinera’s ICE5 optical engine across their live production network from Palo Alto to San Francisco. Learn more:
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#Infinera
’s Stefan Spaelter, Vice President Solutions Product Line Management, speaks on the panel “Global Strides in
#5G
Deployment: Roadblocks and Best Practices” yesterday at
#IMC2019
. Thanks to all the attendees!
#IndiaMobileCongress
#TheFutureIsAtIMC
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AI has moved into the mainstream and become a key topic of public and political discourse. On the Infinera blog, Paul Momtahan looks at the symbiotic relationships between AI/machine learning, optical networking technology, and indium phosphide. Read now:
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Don’t miss tomorrow’s
@lightwaveonline
webinar with Infinera’s
@jonbaldry70
and experts from
@EFFECTPhotonics
,
@EXFO
, and
@Henkel_NAlooking
at pluggable transceiver trends across applications. Register now!
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Coherent optics are poised to significantly transform fiber access networks as coherent technology is extended from the metro core to the metro access and edge. Learn about the role ICE-X intelligent coherent optics play from Infinera’s Fady Masoud:
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Infinera’s contribution to
@TeraFlow_h2020
focuses on providing OpenConfig support in our DRX Series and CNOS and developing extensions to router protocols and monitoring functions to enable network and L3 service automation.
@TeresaMonteiro_
has more:
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IXPs are an integral part of the internet ecosystem, enabling networks to exchange traffic locally for a flatter and faster internet. Learn how open networking innovation helps to drive the evolution of IXP architectures in our article
@LightwaveOnline
:
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Best of luck to the
@Colt_Technology
Charity Bike Riders who left Amsterdam today for a 128km trek raising $ for charities across Europe!
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Infinera XR optics has been honored in
@lightwaveonline
’s 2021 Innovation Reviews! With the industry’s first scalable point-to-multipoint, direct low-speed to high-speed optical transceiver connectivity, XR optics dramatically simplifies access networks.
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At
#OFC21
, Dr. Marc Stephens will present results from Infinera's MAREA field trial with
@Facebook
’s Dr. Steve Grubb, enabling two records for submarine cables of this length: capacity of 30.01 Tb/s and a data rate of 700 Gb/s. Learn more:
@ofcconference
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Next week, join Infinera in Tirana for
#TNC23
, the largest, most prestigious research and education networking conference. Find out more about this event, organized by
@GEANTnews
and hosted by RASH, the National Research and Education Network of Albania:
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ICE6, Infinera’s 1.6 Tb/s optical engine delivering two independently programmable 800 Gb/s wavelengths, was honored in
@lightwaveonline
's Innovation Reviews! Learn how it solves real-world problems “using stellar engineering and the latest technology”:
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As open networking establishes itself and use cases for 5G and beyond get closer to materialization, Infinera is proud to partner with
@TeraFlow_h2020
to advance SDN and network automation. Learn about our role from
@TeresaMonteiro_
on the blog:
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It’s not too late to register for tomorrow’s webinar with
@mobileworldlive
,
#Innovation
in
#5G
Architectures: From X-Haul Transport to Multi-layer Service Slicing. Learn how to maximize 5G
#revenue
potential with new transport technologies and more:
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New 400G intelligent coherent pluggable optics have finally closed the gap between the IP and DWDM worlds to make IPoDWDM viable, but as with most technological advances, the details matter. Infinera’s
@JonBaldry70
explains in
@GEANTnews
Connect (pg. 37):
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Open Wave Manager, Infinera’s vendor-agnostic optical domain controller, was awarded a bronze badge from
@TelecomInfraP
for its ability to interface to open optical terminals. Find out more about this honor from
@TeresaMonteiro_
on the blog:
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Infinera and Lumentum recently announced a milestone in the development of open line systems. Our recent blog details the proof of concept demo of open APIs, information models and end-to-end SDN-based control of a multi-vendor open line system.
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Idle optical network capacity? Instant Network reduces CapEx, lowers business risk. Learn more:
@lightwaveonline
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.
@Windstream
Wholesale and Infinera have announced plans to collaborate on an initiative to transform Windstream’s optical network infrastructure using a revolutionary technology jointly pioneered by both companies, called Node-on-a-Blade. Find out more:
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We’re setting the stage for innovation and transformation for Liberty Global. If you’re attending
#LibertyTechSummit
and want to learn more, visit us at stand 39.
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Being first to light a new, highly advanced cable branch, along with the leading-edge performance of Infinera’s ICE6 optical engine, gives
@paratus_africa
crucial advantage in the rapidly expanding African market. Learn more from Geoff Bennett on the blog:
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Tomorrow at
#ECOC2021
, Infinera’s Fady Masoud will speak on
#XRoptics
in the Product Focus sessions, and Mehdi Torbatian will give a tutorial on coherent optical digital signal processing. View our full speaker roster:
@ECOC_Exhibition
@ECOC_Conference
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Today we celebrate all the women at Infinera and around the world who are forging innovation through technology and advancing equality. Happy International Women’s Day 2021 from Infinera!
#InternationalWomensDay2021
#IWD2021
#IWD
#ChooseToChallenge
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Infinera's new DTN-X solutions for subsea networks enables operators to securely monetize their subsea spectrum.
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Infinera’s trial with American Tower highlighted a key XR optics capability – its deployment flexibility, including over a single fiber, as is often the case in PONs and wireless towers. Learn how XR optics operates over a single fiber from Fady Masoud:
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400G coherent pluggables come in multiple varieties, including ZR, ZR+, and XR. How do they differ, and what are their relative advantages and applications where they have the best fit? Find out from
@DoironTim
in Infinera’s newest Optical Answers video:
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