…-market 100G link over a year ago in Europe, Verizon today announced that it was deploying Ciena?s coherent 100G technology in its U.S. network.  With its plans to deploy 100G technology on selected segments of its U.S. backbone network by the end of the second quarter of 2011, Verizon has become…

This morning, Verizon has announced the industry’s first standards-based, multivendor 100 gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) link for an IP backbone.  The live 100GbE link has been deployed on a portion of Verizon’s European long-haul network, and uses Ciena’s coherent 100G Ethernet solution…

…100G customers to-date, but only four of them are publicly named (Verizon, Mobily, SEA-ME-WE4 and Internet2).  So it’s always good to have a new name to add to your public customer list, and Internet2 is just that.  Last week we announced that Internet2 would be deploying Ciena 100G…

…WaveLogic 3 able to "tune" bandwidth as needed for service provider needs. What about customers? * Verizon, BT, and Southern Cross are all quoted in the press release.  * Ciena has previously issued 100G announcements with BT (here), PCCW Global (here) and Southern Cross (here) that are directly related…

…vendors.”  More impressive was the discovery that “Ciena dominates the 40G/100G leadership rankings” among the service providers surveyed.     Finally, late last week Verizon made big news in the industry with this announcement that it would establish by year-end a 100…

Verizon has lit up its first 100G routes across its U.S. network.  Today in this press release, Verizon announced that it had deployed 100G on "a portion of the company?s U.S. backbone network" using Ciena?s coherent 100G solution.  Earlier this year, Verizon made big news by being the first…

…joins the company of Verizon and AT&T as Tier 1 global service providers that have publicly signed on Ciena as a supplier of 100G and OTN solutions (see AT&T selects Ciena as Optical Transport and Metro/Core Transport domain supplier and Verizon lights up its first U.S. 100G, plans for more). Ciena…

…desire by these network operators to create that new bandwidth on their existing fiber infrastructure using hot new technologies like coherent 40G and 100G optical (see Ciena deploys Asia’s first coherent submarine network for Reliance Globalcom). But while ‘Big Pipes’ might be in the…

…transform these neighborhoods and showcase the power of broadband.” DC-CAN is the latest 100G customer for Ciena, with previous public 100G announcements including BT (last week as part of its 21CN), Verizon, AT&T, Allstream, Mobily, Eurotranstelecoms  and SEA-ME-WE4.  In addition, DC…

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