After all, they sold their Optera optical transport group to Ciena, their DMS switching group to Genband, their Enterprise business to Avaya, their Passport data products to Hitachi, and their GSM business to Ericsson and Kapsch. Why bring them up now? Well in fact, thousands of Nortel bondholders, retirees and suppliers are still waiting to […]

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Last week, Huawei announced that they and Telefonica Chile will deploy the world’s first commercial OTN-based 400G wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) network this year using 100G and 400G technologies. This will be the industry’s fastest metropolitan WDM network based on 400G OTN technology. As standards have not yet been established, Huawei will deploy their proprietary solution […]

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Ciena announced their 2013 Q4 results today. Although revenues were very strong at $583.4 million, above even the high-end of their guidance of $515 to $545 million, adjusted earnings per share (EPS) were only $0.16 compared with expected $0.24. GAAP gross margin also slipped sequentially from 42.4% in the previous quarter to 39.7% in 4Q13. […]

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This blog entry is a little different, in that telecommunications and networks will not be the main focus. For those of us who have had a prosperous 2013, the upcoming holiday season gives a chance to reflect on our success, and consider how we may be able to give back to society and our community. […]

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