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Cyta Hellas Deploys Cisco Optical Solution for new High Speed Optical Network
By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cyta Hellas, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Telecommunications Organization of Cyprus, is the latest network operator to deploy Cisco’s Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transport solution for a new h…
Texas Lone Star Network Rolls Out 100G
We talked about Texas Lone Star Network (TLSN) about two years ago when they upgraded their network with Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers. Since then the company, a consortium of 40 Rural Telecommunications Carriers in Texas has expanded quickly, growing from 3000 lit miles of fiber to over 6225 miles…
Polish Cable Operator Vectra Readies their Network for 100G
It’s been a busy year (and by year, we mean fiscal year, which ends in a few weeks) for Cisco’s optical solutions team. We’ve had a number of customer announcements for our 100G nLight DWDM technology and most recently scooped up an award for our CPAK-based 100G transponder card. Service providers a…
DukeNet Communications Makes the Leap to 100G
Just on the heels of our Packet Optical Networking Conference last week in San Jose we’re thrilled to announce another network operator has selected Cisco to make the transition to 100G. Last time was in the upper mountain state of Wyoming. This time it’s DukeNet Communications, a leading regional f…
Come Join Us at Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference 2013
This year we’re moving our Packet Optical Conference 2013 to San Jose and it promises to be an exciting three days (May 14-16) full of demonstrations and sneak peeks at new platforms and technology. We’ve also got a number of industry speakers including Krish Prabhu, CEO of AT&T Labs and Bikash…
Cisco 100G DWDM– Works Anywhere Over Anything
By Greg Smith, Service Provider Marketing Manager, Cisco OK, so the title of this article isn’t totally accurate. Cisco’s 100G DWDM solution won’t work over barbed wire, or Cat-5 cable, or cotton string, but it will work on over 95% of the existing fiber in the ground, including systems that were de…
Breaking the Network Bottleneck: Why is 100G So Important?
Service providers are rapidly transitioning their networks to 100 Gbps in the core and it seems that every week brings a new technology, product, or customer announcement. With that in mind we encourage you to join us at an upcoming webinar, 100G Optics: Why Operators Are Upgrading Now. It will fe…