All Canadians should have access to high-speed Internet, according to the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), setting ambitious targets for speeds.   They also set up a $750-million (over five years) fund to expand broadband services to remote regions. Earlier today, the CRTC announced that broadband Internet with download speeds of at least 50 megabits […]

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AT&T implemented a multi-vendor Open ROADM in the Dallas-area. Telecommunication providers have been encouraging (forcing?) the development of Open hardware platforms.  Open hardware specs allow mixing ROADMs from different vendors in major metro areas.  This commoditizes the ROADM, and provides significant price negotiating leverage over hardware vendors. As recently revealed in a blog by Andre […]

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