Topic: optical components

Colt Technology Services has added support for Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute connectivity capabilities at Interxion's data center in The Netherlands.

Cisco announced on Monday that it was buying Exablaze to better enable low latency applications.

Ribbon Communications announced on Thursday that it's merging with ECI Telecom Group, and that CEO Franklin (Fritz) W. Hobbs has departed the company.

Nokia is bringing its connection solutions and digital automation cloud capabilities into a partnership to boost Industry 4.0 adoption in Brazil.

Internet2 has picked Ciena's photonic and coherent optical gear to upgrade its network to a more scalable and programmable architecture.

Deutsche Telekom is looking to unravel some of the complexities of its network and services by tapping into Netcracker's automation capabilities.

In a trial that may have a large impact on smart cities, Verizon teamed up with NEC to test fiber sensing on its existing fiber network.

AT&T now has 75% of the data traffic running through its MPLS tunnels under SDN control.

The optical communications hardware market continues to surge thanks to spending by cloud and colocation operators, according to a report by Cignal AI.

Cisco's $2.6 billion deal to buy coherent optics company Acacia Communications is both strategic and tactical.