Topic: optical components

LightRiver Software announced Wednesday that former CenturyLink and Level 3 executive Travis Ewert has been hired as its new chief operating officer.

Nokia announced today a new suite of software-focused applications that give service providers more control over their optical networks.

The OpenDaylight Project announced its ninth platform release this week, which includes various improvements to cloud, edge and wide area network use cases.

In a bid to shake up its bottom line, Infinera announced a cash and stock deal valued at $430 million to acquire optical competitor Coriant.

Integra Optics leans on automated production system to ramp up the production of its fiber-optic components.

Vodafone took the Facebook-designed Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Voyager optical whitebox for a test run on its network in Spain.

Backed by its operator membership, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is continuing its effort to herd traditional telco vendors into the world of open source.

Lumentum has reached a deal to acquire Oclaro for $1.8 billion.

Nokia has introduced its new Photonic Service Engine (PSE) 3 chipset family of coherent digital signal processors.

Corning CEO Wendell Weeks said other service providers can benefit from following a similar optical architecture to Verizon's.