Ciena^® Corporation announces it has been selected by Lightower Fiber Networks to support the delivery of Ethernet services and managed wavelengths at bandwidths up to 100 Gbps. This service will be available immediately to enterprise and service provider customers throughout Lightower’s footprint.  Powered by Ciena’s coherent optical technology, Lightower’s end-to-end fiber-based solutions include 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services as well as 100G managed wavelengths.

Lightower’s new 100G solutions will leverage Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic^™ coherent optical processors to enable delivery of 100G managed wavelength services, and 40 GbE and 100 GbE traffic transported over 100G wavelengths. This will allow Lightower customers to seamlessly scale their networking solutions to support growing capacity demands from the use of multimedia and high definition applications across many key industries including media, finance, telecom, healthcare and government.

For more information on Lightower, visit www.lightower.com.

XKL, LLC. Founder and CEO, Len Bosack will present the Visionary Keynote address at the 4^th Dark Fibre International Convention taking place November 29-30 in London. The Dark Fibre Convention is designed to deliver insight into growth occurring in the dark fiber sector with presentations, case studies and a wide range of national and international networking opportunities. In addition to presenting the Visionary Keynote, XKL is also a key sponsor of the event.

The international conference will assess a wide range of issues including the increased fiber deployment occurring at metro, rural and national levels and the funding mechanisms supporting those types of builds. Attendees of the Dark Fibre Convention will examine customer segments and geographic areas offering new growth opportunities in emerging markets, including Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Africa. XKL looks forward to participating at the event again this year as the convention sets the stage for the latest discussions in the dark fiber industry.

To schedule a meeting with XKL while at the event, email pr@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on XKL, visit www.xkl.com.

We are witnessing history in the making with Hibernia Atlantic, and Huawei’s, joint completion of the first 100G transatlantic connection between Nova Scotia and England. This marks the highest capacity connection ever transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean, and it lays the foundation for rest of the deployments encompassing key routes. All of this is part of a massive subsea cable build which will eventually encompass over 5500 km of cable and offer ultra-low transatlantic latencies of under 60 MS RT – another first in the industry.

This large-scale deployment was made possible by in part by Huawei’s OptiX product series, which is a next generation, intelligent, Optical Transport Network (OTN) platform scalable to over 6 Tbps of switching capacity.

Hibernia, Huawei, and its subsidiary Huawei Marine, have an extensive history of providing industry firsts including:

• First 40 Gbps across the Atlantic
• First 40 Gbps across a subsea span
• First to offer 10 Gbps Ethernet LAN-PHY capacity across the Atlantic
• With the deployment of Project Express in 2012, the first transatlantic build in over ten years offering  the lowest latency available

To view Hibernia Atlantic’s global network map, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/HA_StatSheet_0511_000.pdf

For more information, please read the entire announcement here: http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/Hibernia_Atlantic_Huawei_100G_Test_PR_-_FINAL.pdf

Cyan announces that Zayo has selected the Cyan Z-Series platform for an upgrade to its Manhattan network. With the Manhattan network upgrade, Zayo is able to offer more advanced Ethernet and wavelength services to some of the largest financial institutions in the world as well as wholesale packet services to large carriers and wireless operators.

The Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP) has been deployed in multiple Zayo markets over the past two years, demonstrating carrier class reliability, scalable Ethernet services, along with valuable service management and SLA reporting capability in the Cyan360 Software portfolio. Cyan’s hardware and software solutions allow for Zayo to cost-effectively meet the growing demand for capacity and more advanced network infrastructure technologies in Manhattan.

For more information, visit www.zayo.com.

XKL announces the results  from its in-depth long haul fiber lab testing, revealing a one-way 400Gbps data transport speed of 8.067 milliseconds on test bed spanning 1650km.  The latency measurement is inclusive of the fiber and DarkStar® optical transport equipment.  The distance of 1650km replicates the round-trip distance between New York and Chicago. These findings show XKL’s DarkStar® optical transport systems achieve the fastest latency available today.

Unlike typical fiber test beds that recirculate a loop of 100km of fiber, XKL runs its tests on the complete route distance of fiber, inclusive of equipment.  As a result, XKL brings the field into its lab to evaluate fiber imperfections and simulate worst-case conditions  commonly experienced in the field. To learn more about XKL and its DarkStar products visit www.XKL.com.

The entire press release can be viewed at http://www.jaymiescotto.com/clients/XKL-TestingLowLatency.htm.

OFS a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products, recently attended the FTTH Conference in Orlando, FL. As an exhibitor at the conference and member of the Dark Fiber Community (DFC), OFS took part in the September DFC promotion. By displaying the DFC Member logo at its booth, OFS will receive a one month free banner advertisement on the DFC website.

OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, optical fiber cable, FTTX, optical connectivity and specialty photonics products.  Its manufacturing and research divisions work together to provide innovative products and solutions that traverse many different applications as they link people and machines worldwide. Founded in September 2010, the Dark Fiber Community is an online resource for those looking to build new and extend existing dark fiber networks. With over 115 Members, the DFC is considered an online directory for network operators, providing information and contact details for industry leading vendors.

If you are attending an upcoming event and would like to participate in the DFC promotion, email jsa_allied@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on the Dark Fiber Community, visit http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com.

XKL, LLC., will be exhibiting at the upcoming CVx Channel Vision Expo (CVx) collocated at TMC’s ITEXPO West. CVx takes place September 13-15, at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX and XKL will be at Booth #538 in Exhibit Halls 1-3.  XKL is a leading-edge provider of enterprise fiber optic networking equipment developing technology which focuses on the high performance and high availability requirements of mission critical applications and integrates components of a complete fiber optics transmission system into a simple 1RU package.

XKL’s DarkStar Optical Transport Systems provide both Enterprise network and carrier clients a way to easily deploy optical networks with high capacity requirements.  As CVx provides a platform for channel players and wholesale services providers to develop partnerships, XKL looks forward to sharing its latest developments with those in attendance. DXM Optical Transport Systems, part of XKL’s DarkStar product line, are designed to allow enterprises to easily and cost-effectively build private optical networks with massive bandwidth.

For the complete press release, click here. For more information on XKL, visit www.xkl.com.

Allied Fiber’s CEO, Hunter Newby is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Kaufman Brothers Annual Investor Conference in New York City on September 7-8. Kaufman Brothers is the country’s largest minority owned and operated investment banking and advisory firm focused on Technology, Media, Telecom (TMT), Green Technology and Healthcare. The conference brings together industry leaders and investors in the telecom and communications sector to discuss the latest trends. Hunter will provide an overview of Allied Fiber’s unique dark fiber network system the company is constructing.

Allied Fiber owns, builds and will operate its own network-neutral, fiber optic cable system, connecting sub-sea landing points, cell towers, data centers, carrier hotels, colocation huts, enterprise buildings, schools and governments with next generation, long-haul and short-haul dark fiber. This necessary dark fiber network, planned to unite along its route the continental United States, is created to address America’s need for more broadband access, wireless backhaul, data center distribution and lower latency communications services.

To schedule a meeting with Allied Fiber at this or other upcoming conferences, contact jsa_allied@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on Allied Fiber, visit www.alliedfiber.com.

At the recent Telecom Exchange event, Len Bosack, CEO of XKL, was interviewed by TMC. During the interview, Len explained how XKL’s equipment provides companies’ with efficient easy-to-use solutions for their networks. Len also spoke about the topic of access to dark fiber, a topic which arose in the CEO Roundtable at Telecom Exchange. Access to fiber and providing fiber to cell towers will be important to meet the demands of today’s technology and the future of 4G and LTE technologies.

XKL’s product development programs focus on engineering for the most complex networks ever deployed. XKL’s goal is to provide more automated, more dynamically responsive approaches for network traffic management than the techniques that are being used today.

For the complete video interview, click here. For more information on XKL, visit www.xkl.com.

AFL, an industry-leading provider of fiber optic products and integrated services, has joined the Dark Fiber Community, an online community created by Allied Fiber. The community seeks to connect key vendors with buyers that are planning to build and deploy optical transport networks.

Since its inception in 1984, AFL has engineered and manufactured fiber optic cable and accessories for a variety of industries, including telecommunications, broadband, and electric utility. Today AFL offers a full end-to-end optical transport solution along with engineering expertise to ensure a successful implementation of these networks.

For the complete press release, click here. For more information on the Dark Fiber Community, visit http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com.