Alcatel-Lucent has announced that they will add to their fiber to the home (FTTH) products with a new optical network terminal (ONT) that supports gigabit Wi-Fi, as well as an online service-activation feature called ‘ONT Easy Start’. Alcatel-Lucent’s new 7368 Intelligent Service Access Manager (ISAM) is a home network hub, that delivers consistent distribution of broadband speed throughout the house. […]
Do you remember Carrier Access Corp? They used to design and manufacture optical transport equipment. Even though their platforms are manufacturing discontinued, there is still a demand for certain boards. Many large service providers still have pockets of the equipment installed. Let us know at TruePulse if you need any replacement Carrier Access boards. For […]
ADVA Optical Networking launched its new ConnectGuard™ solution. Engineered specifically to provide the most advanced data protection possible, ConnectGuard™ presents service providers and enterprises with unique solutions to secure their connectivity networks. ConnectGuard™ is available in two distinct variants. Firstly, ConnectGuard Optical for the ADVA FSP 3000 provides robust transport layer security and is ideal […]
Announced just hours ago, Nokia will be merging with Alcatel-Lucent creating a titanic telecom company with over 100,000 employees and US$27 billion in revenues. Nokia is the one taking control. In the all-share transaction, Alcatel-Lucent shareholders will receive Nokia shares values at $16.6 billion. The combined company will run under the Nokia brand, but will keep […]
Tomorrow, April 15, 2015 will be the 103rd anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The ship that was supposed to be the biggest and greatest ship ever built…until it sunk on its maiden voyage. Bigger didn’t turn out to be better in this case. Two telecom giants, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia have admitted to being […]
There is a lot of old optical transport equipment still out there. SONET, SDH or DWDM. The equipment was deployed 20 or more years ago. It is now manufacturer discontinued, but still going strong. I call these the “the oldies but the goodies”. Such as the Nortel Optera Classic platform, sometimes referred to as the FDN2400 […]
In the original 1968 movie Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston and other astronauts crash land on a planet inhabited by apes with human intelligence and emotions. A classic story of struggle, with man as the underdog against apes. A somewhat similar story is playing out in ancient holy city of Varnasi, India. Network engineers […]
Infinera announced that Facebook deployed an Infinera Intelligent Transport Network to light a 3,998 kilometers route without any regeneration. The systems is capable of delivering up to eight terabits per second (Tb/s) of data transmission capacity. The Facebook terrestrial network runs from a data center in Lulea, Sweden, to what Infinera described as “major hubs throughout […]
Rogers has launched Canada’s first VoLTE service on the LG G3 Vigor handset. Support for more handsets is expected later this year. VoLTE, which allows operators to run voice calls over the 4G network, provides several advantages over carriers still relying on circuit-switched fallback (CSFB): CFSB brings the 2G or 3G network into play when […]
[Shenzhen, China, March 31, 2015] Huawei released their 2014 annual report which showed record revenue and net profit, with financial performance up strongly across all business areas. Overall Group revenue reached CNY288.2 billion (USD46.5 billion), an increase of 20.6% from 2013, and Group net profit reached CNY27.9 billion (USD4.5 billion), up 32.7% year on year. […]