Optical Network

If you’re anything like me, your internet connection is a connection to family, to friends, to work, to business partners, to entertainment – and everything in between. When people think of the internet these days, “the cloud” often comes to mind, for storage and apps and streaming games and videos,…

Ask any network operator what keeps them up at night, and the ability to transport massive amounts of data is sure to come up in the conversation. Additionally, they’ll tell you that their data might require low latency, that it might be transactional, and that it definitely has to be encrypted. But…

The Cisco NCS 1004 has been in numerous trials since December of 2018, demonstrating multi-haul transmission. The NCS 1004 offers the flexibility to optimize for higher wavelength capacity or for fiber efficiency to support a wide range of customer applications. To date the NCS 1004 has successfully…

Last year at OFC, we launched the NCS 1004, and we demonstrated the NCS 1004 live in our booth working error-free up to 500G. We have come a long way since then. Customers have successfully run 600G on live networks. The NCS 1004 has achieved 10,000 km+ subsea reach with state-of-the-art performance…

Internet Traffic Trends and Network Pressure Internet traffic and connected devices continue to grow. In North America, between 2017 and 2022, average broadband speeds are projected to grow 2.1x times to 94Mbps. Average Wi-Fi speeds are projected to grow 2.2x to 84Mbps, and average mobile connection…

Submarine cables form the backbone of the Internet, and there are over 300 subsea cables today that interconnect continents and countries. In recent years, as cloud and content providers attempt to reach more users and provide reliable and bandwidth intensive services, submarine infrastructure has e…

Cisco continues to be on the leading edge, driving optical industry innovation for our customers. Today, I’m pleased to announce that we have achieved the ranking of Optical Network Market Leader in the 2018 IHS Markit Technology Vendor Scorecard. Notably, the report states that Cisco leads the fiel…

On the heels of a dynamic OFC show, Cisco kept the Optical and Optics momentum going with our 2018 Spring Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) in Richardson, Texas last week. A quick highlight from OFC:  Cisco introduced two new modular platforms to our NCS 1000 series to help providers maxim…

Verizon has achieved a significant technical milestone by implementing an innovative approach developed with Cisco toward increasing network efficiency on its next-generation transport network. This unique solution enables the continued growth of Ethernet services while improving the reliability of…