NEWS: UPDATE
IPG PHOTONICS BUYS PADTEC SUBMARINE SYSTEMS DIVISION
Padtec has agreed to sell its submarine optical systems division to IPG Photonics. The transaction – $20
million – is part of Padtec’s strategy to focus on high- capacity optical transport market for terrestrial networks. Resources from the sale
will be used for research and development, as well as expanding the company in the global market. Manuel Andrade, Padtec’s
CEO said: ‘We are very happy to know that a globally recognised company, such as IPG, validates, with this transaction, the value generated by Padtec. ‘Moving forward, the
focus of the company will be to direct these additional resources to continue to offer advanced and robust products and services, making Padtec increasingly
competitive.’ Ekaterina Golovchenko, IPG
Photonics’ vice president of telecommunication systems, added: ‘This acquisition will allow IPG to advance the market for submarine networking systems. Combining Padtec’s leading- edge submarine network technologies with IPG’s high-power optical amplifier, Raman pumping, and WDM systems technologies will enable us to effectively compete for a growing number of undersea cable network deployments around the world.’ The acquisition additionally
provides IPG Photonics with the structure for submerged plant deployment, operation and maintenance services.
IPG acquisition allows it to advance
the market for submarine networking systems
OPEN FIBER SELECTS NOKIA FOR RURAL FTTH ROLLOUT IN ITALY
Italian wholesale provider, Open Fiber has selected Nokia for a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) roll-out designed to bring ultra- broadband services to the small towns and rural areas of Italy. The work falls under the
Italian government’s ultra- broadband strategy, which was drawn up in 2015. As part of this, the government identified four types of clusters (A, B, C and D) in the country, where each municipality was assigned to one cluster, based on factors including lower or higher housing density, presence of broadband coverage and market size. Nokia has been selected as
the supplier for the more rural ‘white area’ clusters C and D. Equipment includes 7360 ISAM FX-16 and FX-4 platforms, 7362 DF – 16GW, 7368 ISAM ONTs and the 5520 AMS Element Manager. The 7360 FX platform supports new technology, such as XGS-PON, NG-PON2 and will evolve towards a transformation into software defined networks (SDN), fitting Open Fiber’s aim to build a network open to provide access to other operators.
The network will bring
optical fibre from a point of presence (PoP) to the customer’s home, with the aim of delivering speeds of up to 1Gb/s. In line with the founding
principles of the Gigabit Society, the new fibre deployment is designed to provide Open Fiber with a future-proof network that can support next generation fibre technologies. Stefano Paggi, network and
operations director at Open Fiber, said: ‘We have selected Nokia as our supplier in clusters C and D to deliver giga-services and pave the way for future ultrabroadband technology evolutions. ‘With Nokia’s solutions we
will be able to offer services at 10Gb/s, and in the future at 40Gb/s, on the access network. ‘We will also have the
opportunity to adopt the software defined networking (SDN) paradigm, and therefore to maximise the potential of a new generation access network, with high automation, programmable and integrated with cloud environments.’
INFINERA HELPS TELSTRA INCREASE ASIA PACIFIC SUBSEA-FIBRE CAPACITY
LIGHT SOURCE TO DEVELOP 438-MILE DARK FIBRE ROUTE
Light Source Communications is partnering with John Laing Group to progress the evaluation of a new long-haul dark fibre route in North Carolina and Tennessee. Development has begun on the
438-mile route, which connects Charlote, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, with construction predicted to take 24 months. Te route is designed to enable unlimited high-quality bandwidth and communication infrastructure services with dedicated high-capacity, low- latency dark fibre optic cable
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for customers with critical applications and data centres in these markets. Te network will be underground, contain multiple conduits, and will be diverse from other existing routes. Debra Freitas, Light Source
Communications CEO, said: ‘Alongside our esteemed partner, John Laing Group, we look forward to allowing businesses the opportunity to own and operate a high-performance fibre-optic network providing autonomy, speed, scalability and the cyber-security they need.’
Telstra is giving its network services in Asia Pacific a boost, with a dramatic increase in fibre capacity to its subsea infrastructure, following an alliance with Infinera. Telstra’s subsea cable network in the region reaches more than 400,000km. Infinera’s fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine 4 (ICE4) optical engine is being rolled out across this subsea infrastructure, with the aim of increasing the capacity, agility and reliability of the network. Te companies calculated that ICE4 will increase Telstra’s fibre
capacity by 160 per cent, with a 140 per cent increase in port density. Telstra’s network planning principal, Andy Lumsden, said that
the company is commited to continual network development to support the increasing demand for data, right across the region. He said: ‘Our commitment to our Asia Pacific customers means we
are always adapting and creating capacity where it is needed. We can now provision new services faster than ever, which is critical in a region when capacity demand on our international networks has almost doubled over the past two years.’ Te network upgrade is due to finish in the coming months.
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