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Key developments from the optical components sector, including lasers, transceivers and specialty cables.
By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/20/2015
Ciena and Cisco have been tipped to land the metro 100G business at Verizon, according to financial analysts who follow the optical equipment sector.
By Danny Dicks, 1/16/2015
Operators that have chosen a passive optical network (PON)-based fiber access network strategy should find that residential Internet services can be more than ...
By Dan O'Shea, Managing Editor, 12/24/2014
A year ago, the optical sector -- for better or worse -- seemed relatively free of the hype surrounding SDN and NFV. The primary owners of optical infrastructure were ...
By Dan O'Shea, Managing Editor, 12/9/2014
Optical components firm Finisar said nothing on its fiscal second-quarter earnings call late last week to contradict the widely held belief that it could acquire ...
By Ken Wieland, contributing editor, 12/9/2014
If hardware platforms can sometimes appear a tad dull against the growing software buzz that's surrounding the likes of SDN and NFV, then there's always silicon ...
By Dan O'Shea, Managing Editor, 11/19/2014
Koch Optics has announced it is acquiring optical components maker Oplink for $445 million, a bid that sent Oplink shares soaring by more than 13% today, but also ...
By Eduard Beier, 11/17/2014
The Terabit Demonstrator Project will showcase a 1 Terabit (10 x 100GigE) data path over about 1,000 kilometers at SC14, the Supercomputing Conference, in New ...
By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/6/2014
Microsoft loomed large on Arista's third-quarter call Thursday afternoon as analysts asked -- and asked again -- just how big of a "cloud titan" Redmond is for the ...
By Dan O'Shea, Managing Editor, 11/3/2014
Since we last checked in on Bit Parts, our optical components sector overview, we've seen one big M&A; deal announced with more consolidation likely to come in 2015:
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Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/21/2015
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India Targets $10.3B From Spectrum Auctions
Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/7/2015
The Indian government expects to raise at least $10.3 billion from the sale of ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
NeoPhotonics Closes Emcore Components Buy
Monday, January 5, 2015
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Chip packaging may not make many headlines but is critical in components ...
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Highlights From the 2020 Vision Executive Summit

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In December 2014, Light Reading brought together telecom executives in Reykjavik, Iceland to discuss their vision for high-capacity networks through the end of the decade. The intimate, interactive meeting was set against the backdrop of Iceland's spectacular natural beauty. As one of the event's founding sponsors, Cisco's Doug Webster shared his company's ...
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Huawei Pay-TV Partner Harmonic, Helping Carriers Accelerate 4K Video Deployment with Huawei

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At IBC, Peter Alexander, Senior Vice President & CMO at Harmonic, speaks about the growing interest in pay-TV service and its branching into multiple devices.
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Sony Marketing Director Olivier Bovis Discusses the Outlook for 4K and Cooperation With Huawei at IBC 2014

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At IBC, Olivier Bovis, Marketing Director of Sony, speaks about the coming of the 4K era.
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Huawei Pay-TV Partner Envivio, Helping Carriers Accelerate 4K Video Deployment

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At IBC, Olivier Bovis, Marketing Director of Sony, speaks about the coming of the 4K era.
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Pay-TV's Networked Future

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At IBC, Jeff Heynen, Principal Analyst at Infonetics, speaks about the future of the pay-TV industry and its transition.
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Jeff Heynen: Distributed Access Will Help MSOs Compete in the Future

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At IBC, Jeff Heynen, Principal Analyst at Infonetics, speaks about moving to distributed access and the future trend of cable business.
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Cisco Talks Transformation

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In December 2014, Steve Saunders sat down with Cisco VP of Products & Solutions Marketing Doug Webster at Light Reading's 2020 Vision executive summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. They spoke about Cisco's approach to network virtualization as well as how service providers can begin to monetize high-capacity networks through the end of the decade.
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Bob Wilson, Arsenal Legend: The Light Reading Interview

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Arsenal goalkeeping legend Bob Wilson was Light Reading's guest interviewee at the 2020 Vision Executive Summit in December. See what the former soccer star and sports broadcaster had to say when he took to the stage in Iceland.
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What MEF Third Network Initiative Means for SDN & NFV

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Vitesse Semiconductor CTO Martin Nuss discusses the importance of the MEF Third Network initiative and why it's good news for SDN/NFV industry initiatives.
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Frank Miller: Distributed Solutions are the Best Build for the Future - Part II

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At SCTE, Frank Miller, Global CTO of MSO at Huawei, speaks about Cable 2.0 and its innovative future.
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Frank Miller: Distributed Solutions Are the Best Build for the Future

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At SCTE, Frank Miller, Global CTO of MSO at Huawei, speaks about distributed solutions for the future of the cable business.
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Monetize WiFi for MSO Operators

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At SCTE, Patrick Kaiser, Director of Wireless Product Management at Huawei, speaks of how to monetize WIFI and the need to partner.
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