Interoperability in optical transport network becomes a reality through the evolution towards SDN

Partners of the TransportPCE project deliver open source software code to facilitate and speed up the adoption of interoperable optical transponders.

Read more

Ciena to buy Packet Design, enhancing Blue Planet intelligent automation platform with IP capabilities for adaptive networks

Ciena Corporation has agreed to acquire privately-held Packet Design, LLC, a provider of network performance management software focused on Layer 3 network optimisation, topology and route analytics. Terms of the deal have not been

Read more

The secret to digital transformation

Sigma Systems, the global provider in catalog-driven software, announces its program at this year’s Digital Transformation World in Nice from 14-16 May.

Read more

Modernise your wireline network to realise 5G’s full potential

5G is getting significant airtime as companies from across the sector start to plan and share their ideas on critical steps they are taking to roll-out the next generation technology

Read more

Prepare for the autonomous network

With the ever-increasing demand for cloud computing, mobility and video streaming, there is a growing burden being placed on our global networks, writes Loudon Blair, a senior director in the

Read more

Keri Gilder, vice president and general manager EMEA, Ciena

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Keri Gilder: My first job was as a lifeguard, it was THE highest paid/highest skilled job in Carlsbad, New Mexico – my small town. It was

Read more

EXFO founder Lamonde appoints Morin as new CEO, remaining actively involved as executive chairman

EXFO Inc., the global network test, data and analytics experts, announced that Germain Lamonde, the company’s founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer (CEO), has appointed Philippe Morin

Read more

TEOCO joins Ciena’s Blue Orbit initiative to accelerate SDN and NFV deployments

TEOCO, a provider of analytics, assurance and optimisation solutions to more than 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, has joined Ciena’s Blue Orbit SDN and NFV Ecosystem.

Read more

Making sense of SDN in the WAN: A multitude of vendors and approaches vying for a piece of the action

As communications service providers (CSPs) refashion their networks and operations processes for the cloud era, software defined networking (SDN) has been somewhat overshadowed by its complementary technology, network functions virtualisation

Read more

Network performance assurance provider Accedian appoints new head of R&D, pursues growth in NFV, 5G

Accedian, a global end-to-end network performance assurance provider, has appointed Martin Labelle to the role of vice-president of Research and Development.

Read more