Dark Fiber

100 Gigabit Ethernet is a high-speed computer network standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The technology allows users to send Ethernet frames at 100 gigabits per second on various 25 Gbit/s lanes. Some years ago, the fastest published Ethernet standard was 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

Rosendin Electric's Network Services Group has considerable experience in offering full service sound and communication for new construction, design build, system integration, and turnkey. With this, Rosendin Electric can be a "single source" contractor for both our customer's electrical needs and their data and telecommunications requirements.

Zayo Group is in the process of implementing a low latency route between Seattle and Chicago. As compared to the existing route, this low latency service is expected to offer a decreased material latency to the Financial, Content and Carrier customers.

100 Gigabit Ethernet is a high-speed computer network standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The technology allows users to send Ethernet frames at 100 gigabits per second on various 25 Gbit/s lanes. Some years ago, the fastest published Ethernet standard was 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

Sidera Networks recently announced the availability of low latency connectivity from the New York Metro market to Toronto, Canada and London, England. Sidera's high capacity, high availability Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network provides the lowest latency paths between locations, and offers resiliency with at least two different paths into sites. The network is supported by SLAs that offer specific latency.

TELE Greenland, Eastlink and Hibernia Atlantic plan to work together to modify the existing Icelandic route by offering a shorter and more direct path connecting New York and Landeyajasandur, Iceland. The new low latency high bandwidth connection is expected to lower the current latency by over 10ms round trip, and by a distance of 1100 kilometers, according to company officials.

Cologix recently announced that it has acquired Minnesota's most connected data center, the Minnesota Gateway. The Minnesota Gateway, which is situated in the carrier hotel at 511 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis, is one of the major network neutral interconnection and colocation providers in Minnesota.

QLogic is a company that provides Fiber Channel Adapters in the field of storage networking. The company's products offer native Fiber Channel performance. They also provide dual-port, line-rate, and 16-gigabit Fiber Channel throughput at extremely low CPU usage with complete hardware offloads. This extreme performance gets rid of potential I/O bottlenecks in the modern day powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.

SPS acquires Jones Communications this week, Calix joins the Broadband Initiatives Program and Nortech Systems improves its Camera Link Line.

As the demand for high bandwidth-intensive applications and services increases, companies look to evaluate new transport technologies to improve and maximize the value of their data communications infrastructure. One of the most inexpensive methods is to scale their bandwidth needs and prepare the business for the future with an optical Dark Fiber solution.

Telecommunications vendor, ADVA Optical Networking, has successfully implemented new OpenFlow technology that can dynamically control wavelength-switched optical networks. Based on the FSP 3000, an optical transport solution from ADVA Optical Networking, this breakthrough was developed as part of the OFELIA project, which provides researchers with a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) testbed for experimenting with new applications using a Web-services approach.

It's still unclear how much demand for 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps broadband access exists, at prices suppliers are willing to offer, in European and North American markets. Significantly lower prices seem to be the key, according to Sonic.net.

Total Cable Solutions (TCS), a company that specializes in private labeled and custom network connectivity products, has recently acquired Optica Technologies' Fiber Services business line, which enables TCS to get connected to a new set of enterprise data center partners and customers from Optica.

ForeScout Technologies and Fiberlink have announced a partnership to deliver the industry's first fully integrated MDM and network access control (NAC) offering - ForeScout MDM. Jim Sheward, CEO at Fiberlink, said the company has teamed up with ForeScout to bring a combined solution that provides end-to-end mobility management and security across devices, applications, data and networks.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has reexamined and upheld CTC GLOBAL's three patents that had been challenged. The patents, related to its conductor technology and innovative fiber core composite were substantially upheld after a review of its 175 patents.

US Seismic Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Acorn Energy, Inc., recently announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Northrop Grumman Corporation for the latter's fiber-optic technology patents. According to the terms of the agreement, USSI will use Northrop Grumman's licensed patents in refining high sensitivity oilfield fiber-optic geophones.

The dark-fiber business is booming. An asset that had no viable market just a few years ago, dark-fiber sales has become central to the telecommunications and networking industry. By the end of the year, dark-fiber will near $1 billion in revenue.

Cbeyond, Inc., a leading network and cloud services provider with over 62,000 SMBs in its client base, announced that its entering an agreement with FiberLight, a fiber optic networking provider for the United States. The partnership between the two companies will allow Cbeyond to utilize FiberLight's own backbone to extend its offer to new buildings and SMBs around the United States.

Lightower Fiber Networks, a renowned source of fiber and bandwidth in the Northeast, announced plans for a major expansion effort into New Jersey. In total, Lightower is adding over 100 miles of new fiber throughout the counties of Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Moris, Middlesex and Mercer to its already industry leading all-fiber network.

Calix, a global leader in access innovation, has announced that it has been chosen for five additional fiber access broadband stimulus projects.

Network access solutions provider, Zhone Technologies announced it is enabling TE Data's deployment of its Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) solution in Egypt.

The growth of wireless backhaul networks is driving the consolidation of Point-To-Point (PTP) microwave communications equipment, a Visant Strategies report has found.

Zayo Group, a national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure, will be expanding its fiber network throughout southern Indiana and into metro Louisville, Kentucky. This will mark Zayo's first step into the Louisville market, adding about 60 new route miles and six buildings to the company's infrastructure.

AiNET has decided to publicize a never-before-seen glimpse of what lies beneath the manhole. AiNet customers in D.C. have enjoyed state-of-the-art network speed, unlimited connectivity between government and civilian institutions, Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations (DR/COOP) and cloud storage services.

Maersk Oil has selected FIBERTOWN data centers for high-performance colocation of its mission critical and disaster recovery systems.

Louisville, Colorado- based provider of fiber-based Bandwidth Infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services, Zayo Group recently acquired Arialink for a whopping $18M.

With demands of both carrier and enterprise customers increasing rapidly, a greater interest in redundant and diverse network connections has emerged, and Fibertech is seizing this opportunity to complete integration of its diverse fiber optic connection into DuPont Fabros Technology's (DFT) New Jersey data center. Committed to bringing fiber connectivity directly into NJ1, Fibertech's alliance with DFT is expected to ensure that customers in this area have access to the company's high-speed connectivity and low latency solutions.

In order to implement a multi-node regional fiber optic network, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has chosen Fujitsu to deploy the network, which will allow researchers to access and share important data residing in remote datacenters in a private cloud.

CableOrganizer.com recently added new fiber optic-related products to its online catalog, found at www.CableOrganizer.com. The company is one of the most well-known cable and wire management-related product vendors in the country.

Tektronix, a supplier of broadcast video test, monitoring and analysis solutions, announced the launch of its new optical analyzer the OM4000 Series which is capable of enhancing the functionalities of the DSA8300 Digital Sampling Oscilloscope. Tektronix specializes in single modulation analyzers that are compatible with real-time as well as equivalent-time (sampling) oscilloscopes.

MCNC recently confirmed that the initial round of the $144-million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI) has been officially completed. Working with FRC LLC, its first-phase commercial partner who contributed $4 million into the project, fiber is now officially available to serve commercial businesses and last-mile consumer broadband needs in western. and southeastern North Carolina

AboveNet communications, a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity, recently announced in a press release that it has selected 'virtual meet me room' (vmmr) Ethernet platform from ancotel GmbH, Europe's leading network neutral interconnection company. According to the officials from AboveNet, the vmmr platform will be deployed in Frankfurt and will help the company further improve its Ethernet services.

FiberMedia Group recently announced the expansion of its flagship Secaucus, NJ facility. Plans for the Secaucus, NJ facility were announced amid the growing demand for enterprise-class data center services. The company is a prominent source of data center services to companies in the New York metropolitan area and the Cleveland, OH region.

Cape Town, South Africa, has taken a step forward with its communications infrastructure by deploying a high-speed network throughout the city. The municipality has implemented ADVA Optical Networking`s FSP 3000 solution in a not-for-profit network owned by the city. The network spans over 100km of fiber and offers multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) along with 10 Gbit per second Ethernet capabilities.

With an intention to offer reliable, high-speed broadband communications services to rural communities throughout West Virginia, JDSU has teamed up with Frontier Communications and has even introduced new installment to its "JDSU from a Different View" campaign to keep up with its commitment.

Lightwave Logic, Inc. recently announced the University of Arizona will continue with its research on the electro-optical effect on its Perkinamine Indigo, which was found to be higher than 250 picometers per volt at 1550-nanometers when leveraging the conventional Teng-Man testing protocol. Initial recordings were taken during demonstrations conducted at the University of Colorado and Photon-X.

SPATIALinfo will provide Globe Telecom with a geo-spatial Fiber Management (FMS) solution to improve the quality of their physical network data records. Globe Telecom has selected SPATIALinfo as its supplier of a physical network asset management solution, according to Don Wadas, executive vice president of sales and marketing at SPATIALinfo.

Integra Telecom Inc., a provider of fiber-based, business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, recently announced that it has appointed Ken Smith as executive vice president of Sales. A 30-year veteran of sales in the telecommunication industry, Smith will be responsible for preparing and implement ing sales strategies in order to drive the company's revenue and further expand its operations in unexplored territories.

ZTE Corporation is probably one of China's biggest telecommunication and cellphone equipment company. Now, it seems the company wants to expand its influence, and it has announced that they made a deal with Telefonica Group, the main communications company in Peru. Their main business involves creating and manufacturing the equipment used both by customers, such as phones and communication terminals, as well as large items used by the network to route traffic. So far their main customers have been in China, but thanks to this deal this may be starting to change.

Vodafone has recently purchased Cable and Wireless Wordlwide in a deal of €1.3 billion ($1.7 billion U.S.) The Indian company Tata communications had decided not to pursue a takeover bid for the struggling company last week.

NTS, Inc. recently announced that it has commenced the construction of its high speed Fiber-To-The-Premise (FTTP) Network in southern Louisiana. Funded by approximately $36.1 million in federal stimulus grants and loans, this network will gradually include the communities of Hammond, Ponchatoula, Natalbany, Tickfaw, Independence and Amite, Louisiana, thereby adding approximately 11,500 FTTP passings in the network. The company has also announced that it has connected its first customers in Wilson and Meadow of Texas.

Microwave networking solution specialist Aviat Networks has recently inaugurated a new office in the Middle East in order to attend to the thriving mobile and wireless market requirements.

Preformed Line Products' new COYOTE ONE Closure is an enhanced version of its fiber optic closure lineup - a cost-effective option for users who want the features of many connectivity solutions in a compact package. The company asserted its COYOTE ONE Dome Closures, with next-generation sealing systems, can help one embrace the future of fiber optic connectivity and the systems' patented segmented end plates and grommets ensure easier installation, faster re-entry and proven reliability.

Fixed operators in developed nations will spend in excess of $53 billion on fiber network rollouts over the next five years, according to a new report from market research firm Analysys Mason. Western Europe is expected to account for roughly half of all fiber network spending between 2012 and 2017.

Expansions, conversions, distribution deals and more - let us take a look at some of this week's top headlines in the Dark Fiber world.

Frontier Communications recently announced that in 2011, its network enhancements and capital investments in Pennsylvania came up to $26.5 million. The company is a major communications firm, focusing on serving small and medium-sized towns and cities in the United States.

In 2005, the MEF Certification Program was launched as part of a mission to improve the worldwide adoption of Carrier Ethernet. With the help of a strict series of tests based on MEF approved Test Suites, the program verifies compliance of vendor equipment and service provider services to MEF technical specifications. Expanding as further technical specifications are developed, the program tracks areas of critical interest to members of the MEF.

Zayo Group just announced that it took home the trophy for the 2012 United States Long Haul Wholesale Carrier Report Card Award by ATLANTIC-ACM, an organization that provides research services to business clients and investors. The Report Card Award assesses customer feedback for US long haul wholesale providers and makes an impartial comparison of all the complaints and appreciation that customers have.

Avnet Memec, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc., recently announced in a press release that it has signed a distribution agreement with HALO Electronics, Inc. According to the terms of the agreement, Avnet Memec will distribute its communication magnetics products to customers in the Americas.

Conterra Broadband services, one of the nation's largest Ethernet carriers, has acknowledged the significant role that Local Backhaul Networks' (LBN) OcularIP SLA portal application played in helping Conterra gain a competitive advantage and win new businesses.

Powerful connectivity solutions, multiple service options and unparalleled customer support have all ensured that Alpheus Communications' services continue to remain popular with carriers, enabling the metro-regional fiber and networking solutions provider to rapidly increase its carrier sales. With carriers increasingly adopting fiber-based network infrastructures and Ethernet services for connectivity, Alpheus' ability to provide fast installation, flexible service options and high-bandwidth transport services is a solution to meet more and more requirements.

Tower Cloud, a company that operates a fiber-focused network to backhaul voice, video and data from cell sites for wireless carriers, has expanded its network capacity by adding new fiber optic based backhaul network in Dothan and southeastern Alabama. The new Dothan/Fort Rucker network is built to aid 48 cell sites through more than 135 route miles fiber.

Calix Unified Access Portfolio and Calix Professional Services has been selected by the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) to support and implement its Broadband Linking the American Samoa Territory (BLAST) Project.

LEACO, a provider of wired and wireless telecommunications and high-speed Internet services to the southeastern New Mexico region, will turn its existing infrastructure into an all IP-based network through Exalt microwave backhaul systems. LEACO offers wireless cellular, WiFi, paging, local and long distance telephone services, local area dial-up, DSL and high-speed Internet services with a fiber optic ring, and serves a population of nearly 175,000 across 10,000 square miles.

Another week gone, so let us sum up any news you may have missed in this week's Dark Fiber breakdown. An unnamed Tier-1 cable provider secured a $7 million order with Sandvine, which includes the company's popular network analytics software suite. Sandvine did not release the name of the company that purchased the solutions, but did state that the cable provider has been an active client of theirs for over five years.

Cyberoam, a provider of identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances, announced the launch of new 1GbE and 10GbE fiber port UTM appliances for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprises, respectively. The new fiber port UTM appliances allow organizations to enjoy benefits offered by fiber connections including high reliability, low environment sensitivity and noise-free network connection.

All electronic devices are generally subject to Electromagnetic interference (EMI) from external sources, if inadequately shielded or designed. It's also called radio frequency interference (RFI) when in high frequency or radio frequency.

According to a recent study released by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council Americas, the number of North American households connected to all-fiber networks has risen by 13 percent since last April. As a result, FTTH subscribers have grown to 8 million, wrote Multichannel News.

Integra Telecom Inc., has unveiled Wavelength Services, which offers high-bandwidth transport and point-to-point connectivity for business continuity, disaster recovery and long-distance data center networking.

An unnamed Tier-1 cable provider has placed a $7 million order with Sandvine, including Sandvine's Policy Traffic Switch and Sandvine's Network Analytics software suite. The purchase will bring insight into the cable provider's network usage and facilitate network management decision-making.

IMC Networks has unveiled new PoE and PoE+ McBasic media converters, enhancing its Power over Ethernet offerings. Each and every compatible PoE and high-power PoE+ devices will now be offered a maximum of 15.4 Watts data and 25.5 Watts power, which use IEEE 802.3af for PoE and 802.3at for PoE+.

Miranda Technologies Inc. has unveiled their much awaited high-density fiber converter series named LUMO.

Molex Inc. stated the newly launched VersaBeam POD (parallel optical device) Cable Assemblies is a one of a kind product specializing in expanded-beam interconnects, and the first one in the industry to meet rigorous Telcordia GR-1435 specifications. The module is a 12-fiber solution, particularly designed to blend with Avago Technologies' MicroPOD and MiniPOD parallel optic modules.

Another Friday is here, and that means a recap of some TMCnet news. Let's look at what happened in dark fiber this week.

One of the most ambitious projects to win a broadband stimulus award was the U.S. Unified Community Anchor Network (UCAN), which won a $62.5 million grant to interconnect existing academic and research networks nationwide over a 100 Gbps nationwide backbone. Project backers independently raised an additional $34.3 million to support total project costs of $96.8 million.

Molex has unveiled VersaBeam, a new product family built for expanded-beam interconnects.

Avnet Technology Solutions, a global distributor of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology, reportedly extended its distribution agreement with QLogic Corp., a global technology innovator in high-performance networking delivering adapters, switches and ASICs. Major OEMs and channel partners worldwide use QLogic's networking solutions. The agreement allows Avnet to supply a wide range of quality networking products from QLogic to the African and Middle Eastern markets.

United, a part of the Euro Media Group (EMG), announced it will be use Brocade Ethernet fabric and Brocade MLXe Series routers to upgrade its end-to-end network and enhance its services. United is a full-service company providing facilities, technical and creative support for multimedia audiovisual productions, and its higher traffic volumes in the video production environment is expected to touch 16 terabytes.

StorageQuest Inc., a global source for data and archive management software and hardware, recently announced its new Optical Network Appliance (ONA) is now available. A headless server system, ONA comes with an array of Blu-Ray optical drives, connected via iSCSI to any Windows 7 Pro, Windows 2003 or Windows 2007 server.

Basin Electric Power has signed an agreement with Aviat Networks for its Eclipse Packet Node microwave platform as the electric utility gears up for replacing its existing networks in North and South Dakota.

Each week, we at TMC like to take a look back at the happenings in various communications and technology industries to see what's new. Here, then, is everything you need to know about dark fiber news from the past week.

A new video shot live at the 2012 OFC/NFOEC conference has been added by JDSU to its Industry View campaign on JDSU.tv. Optical experts have offered their opinions regarding the transformation of transport networks from static to flexible 'Self Aware' architectures, in this latest video.

UNSi's Ethernet over Copper (EoC) Internet solutions offer reliable Internet access with speeds up to 45Mbps at costs cheaper than fiber-based services. By offering the service as an Ethernet based connection, companies can reduce costs even more by not requiring customers to invest in costly routing equipment and hardware to eliminate already existing, traditional copper-based services.

Lantiq asserted that it offers an extensive portfolio of advanced Broadband CPE ADSL2+, VDSL2 and SHDSL single-chip solutions and its SoCs are designed for various deployment scenarios at both home and enterprise environments. The newly released XWAY ARX300 device family will heron feature in Lantiq's newADSL2/2+ CPE designs.

Through a new alliance between EAGLE-Net and Zyo Group, the residents of Colorado may see their high speed fiber network be expended very soon. The agreement was signed recently between the two companies and should bring a boost to the speed that many households can get through their Internet connection, thanks to the partnership which will see over 162 miles of fiber being lay down across Colorado.

PLX Technology, a source of I/O interconnect silicon and complimentary software, unveiled its new TeraPHY TN8045 10GBase-T transceiver quad-port physical layer (PHY), optimized for Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches. 10GBase-T technology increases bandwidth and speed over the copper infrastructure.

Switching and conversion technology provider Transition Networks has announced the release of a 24-port managed all fiber switch -- the SM24DPA.

Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a technology that synthesizes data from various sources on an optical fiber. Here, each signal is carried simultaneously on its own separate light wavelength. The system tries to eliminate the "fiber exhaust" problem, and many predict it will be the central technology in the optical networks of the future.

US customer experience systems provider Amdocs has landed a deal with TIM Brasil, the second largest mobile service provider in Brazil, to provide business and operational support systems for the carrier's new fiber residential broadband program.

Masergy recently announced it has selected ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 150 to offer smart ethernet services to its enterprise clients across the globe. Masergy will be able to test and resolve network issues throughout the network with the FSP 150, featuring an array of remote Operations, Administration and Maintenance or OAM competences.

Imagine a new data processing protocol that improves power consumption of information and communications networks so much that the power saved is the equivalent of taking half a million cars off of the road. No, this isn't science fiction or a farfetched 'go green' initiative. This is a new technology - called Bi-PON, just announced by the GreenTouch Consortium.

L-com, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, recently announced that it has expanded its line of PoE products for Category 6 gigabit Ethernet lines. The portfolio will now include a single-port and a four-port model which are IEEE 802.3af compatible.

Köpings Kabel-TV AB, Swedish based cable TV operator delivering services across its widely distributed cable network throughout the city of Köping and the surrounding communities, has recently picked Calix Unified Access solutions to offer advanced broadband services to its subscribers.

Video conferencing is becoming a fundamental staple in the world of business communications. High-speed data capabilities are therefore crucial to the quality and stability of those conferences, and to a great deal of businesses in the state of Missouri that luxury was out of the question - until now.

The latest research from Vertical Systems Group examines the fiber penetration trends in the U.S. and European markets and looks at the factors that triggered the increased demand.

The Channel Partners Conference & Expo is purported as the only industry event where indirect sales organizations can get help to renovate their existing businesses into next-generation solutions providers. At the event, Lightower Fiber Networks intends to explain to attendees about the benefits one can derive by partnering with Lightower.

Time for another TMCnet news recap. For this edition, let's look at what went on in the dark fiber space.

Broadcom, a provider of semiconductor solutions, announced it is acquiring BroadLIght, a provider of integrated networking and fiber access Passive Optical Network (PON) processors, for about $195 million.

In 2011, Netadmin shared that the Dutch company planned to expand services across the Netherlands. One of its newest ventures is joining forces with cable service CAIW with an open management platform. The system will allow for CAIW to run more efficiently while reaching out to more customers.

Louisville, CO.'s Zayo Group LLC, a bandwidth infrastructure provider, announced this week that it had acquired AboveNet Inc. for $2.2 billion just days before the announcement that the company will acquire Arialink for $18 million.

Zayo Group, a privately-owned Louisville provider of fiber-based Bandwidth Infrastructure and network services, is set to acquire Arialink, a Michigan-based source for high speed fiber optic internet and phone services. Zayo group already has a national footprint of 45,000 miles of metro networks, and will add an additional 930 new miles after the acquisition.

Net Optics, Inc recently acquired of Sydney-based nMetrics and its sister company, Triplelayer. The company has now launched a division in Australia, expanding its business operations within the AsiaPac region where there is a growing need for high-density access and deep diagnostics.

NetCracker Technology's program for combining and supervising fiber-based infrastructure has been successfully implemented by Lightower Fiber Networks. NetCracker will also carry out consequential projects for Lightower for computerizing network operations and improving operational competence.

Optical network technologies are known for their reliability and greater speed. However, migrating to optical networks remains a concern for most providers due to the higher installation costs. The growing popularity of high-speed 10G networks is creating huge demand for optical solutions, which experts believe, will eventually reduce the cost of fiber optic deployment.

German engineering conglomerate Siemens has agreed to acquire a business unit of the U.K.'s Expro Holdings for $622 million to further its role in the offshore oil and gas industry.

In an effort to expand its high-bandwidth fiber optic footprint, privately-held Zayo Group on Monday agreed to acquire fellow network operator AboveNet for around $2.2 billion.

As the increase in demand for mobile integration becomes more necessary for companies in the telecom industry, it's no surprise that developers across the board are creating mobile applications to make the lives of professionals that much easier while on the go.

Vecima Networks Inc, a source of broadband cable and wireless network infrastructure solutions, recently announced that it has signed an agreement with a major cable broadband access company to create a next-generation high density broadband cable transmitter. Vecima and its partner will deploy the advanced broadband transmitter as an integrated circuit solution, tethering with the cable broadband access company's future platform for data over cable and digital video.

CCLD Technologies, an engineering and construction company, has joined Allied Fiber's Dark Fiber Community. The Dark Fiber Community has over 125 members and provides information and contact details for industry-leading vendors.

The Bulloch Telephone Cooperative has selected Optical Network Edge (ONE) and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) solutions from ADTRAN, Inc, to help it develop an advanced and robust optical service delivery framework which will support optimized delivery of voice, video, and data services to more than 8,500 residential and business customers. Bulloch Telephone which serves customers across Bulloch County, Georgia, will deploy the Total Access 5000 for its service delivery framework.

Friday means it's time for another recap of news here on TMCnet. This edition will wrap up all things dark fiber. Without further ado, let's see what the news brought us this week.

Optimum Lightpath is now offering a Private Fiber Service, a dark fiber option targeted to larger enterprises and financial services firms which are looking for a more economical solution.

Clearfield, a source of fiber management and connectivity solutions for service providers, announced that Vermont Telephone Company (VTel) has deployed the FieldSmart fiber management platform to support a major project in Vermont. The project, funded by the federal American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, supports VTel's Wireless Open World (WOW) network that aims to extend fiber to every home and business in the VTel service area, and roll out 4G/LTE high speed, wireless broadband services statewide.

By leveraging the Cisco ONS 15454 M6 Multiservice Transport Platform, SURFnet has supposedly completed a technology test of Cisco's 100G DWDM solution between the National Supercomputing Center, SARA, in Amsterdam, and CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The test showcases available fiber infrastructure's ability to withstand high speed networking.

Japan's telecommunications manufacturer, OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd., recently announced that it has built a virtual network for the demonstration of 100-km broadband optical access service.

With a commitment to technology that supports the rapid growth of new applications and services in the international NREN community, Europe-based research and education network SURFnet recently demonstrated 100G dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) solution between Amsterdam and Geneva.

A Japanese company called OKI recently figured out a way to significantly reduce data-loss in optical broadband transmissions that travel a distance of 100km.

Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corp., announced today the launch of their new Private Fiber Service being made available to businesses across the New York City metro area.

Rounding up some of the top news for dark fiber this past week, TMC noted that Ericsson's continued investment in optical research and innovation has paid off as the Swedish telecom giant demonstrated 1Tbps optical transport at OFC/NFOEC in Los Angeles, California. OFC/NFOEC is a global conference and exposition for optical communications and networking professionals.

ADVA Optical Networking and Corning Incorporated are planning a joint demo of 100 Gbps fiber network intended for metropolitan areas.

JDSU, a provider of test and measurement solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced it is conducting trials with its new Twin 1x20 Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) with network equipment manufacturers.

Ericsson's continued investment in optical research and innovation has paid off as the Swedish telecom giant demonstrated 1Tbps optical transport at OFC/NFOEC in Los Angeles, California. OFC/NFOEC is a global conference and exposition for optical communications and networking professionals.

The EMCORE Corporation has unveiled new 120 Gigabits per second CXP Active Optical Cable for customer sampling.

Mindspeed Technologies, which provides semiconductor solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced the latest optical networking unit burst-mode driver solution.

Telx, provider of interconnection and data center services in strategic, high demand North American markets, launched the Connect Portfolio, a simplified, comprehensive family of scalable interconnection service options for quickly establishing data center, IT, cloud or point of presence (PoP) colocation infrastructures.

Juniper Networks, which provides solutions to improve networks, announced it has achieved interoperability and new performance benchmarks for QFabric, its single layer data center architecture, designed to address industry's growing need for high data volumes.

Users who want have their fiber to be appropriately consolidated, protected and distributed can now deploy the Clearfield CraftSmart Fiber Access Panel (FAP), a high density, low maintenance fiber distribution panel for use in a data frame.

Sidera Networks, a provider of fiber optic-based network solutions for critical communications, has selected Global Capacity's online pricing platform 'One Marketplace Access Exchange'. Global Capacity's pricing platform provides real-time competitive quotes for circuits, automating the ordering, provisioning and management of off-net access services.

January's PTC'12 conference in Honolulu elicited a feeling of dejà vu. Themed "Harnessing Disruption," PTC'12 gave attendees a chance to take a breath and marvel over how, in only a few years, the proliferation of ubiquitous hand-held devices has unleashed a flurry of new applications that are sure to disrupt existing revenue streams of both the service providers and the "arms dealers" that supply them. A common theme resonating throughout PTC'12 was that these new services create huge new opportunities both financial and social in their nature, as witnessed by the protests worldwide against injustice and corruption by governments and corporations. No one can argue the effects that Twitter, Facebook and the Web have had worldwide.

This week in the dark fiber space two Missouri electric cooperatives, Co-Mo Electric Cooperative and United Electric Cooperative, introduced fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) by leveraging the Calix Unified Access portfolio. As a result, reported TMCnet contributor Carolyn J Dawson, more than 27,000 homes and businesses in Tipton, Maryville and surrounding regions will be offered superior broadband services.

Two Missouri electric cooperatives, Co-Mo Electric Cooperative and United Electric Cooperative, will be introducing fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) by leveraging the Calix Unified Access portfolio. Now more than 27,000 homes and businesses in Tipton, Maryville and surrounding regions will be offered superior broadband services.

With the high demand for always-on Internet services and fiber networks only continuing to increase as businesses and residential areas demand reliable capacity for their networks, companies like Allied Fiber are working hard to build and operate its own network to meet those requirements.

Fiber-optic adapter plates are a new addition to the Opt-X line of products from Leviton. They are offered in SC, LC and ST styles.

The newly unveiled advanced burst-mode architecture for XG-PON1 Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) applications from Vitesse is supposed to enable mass deployment of fiber-to-the-home systems and also allow OEMs and vendors to raise the volume of production of XG-PON1 systems.

The Kaiam Corporation has announced that at OFC/NFOEC 2012 in Los Angeles, the company will demonstrate its 100 Gb/s DWDM CFP transceiver at OFC/NFOEC 2012 in Los Angeles.

Cross River Fiber has completed the shortest commercially available fiber network route between 1400 Federal Boulevard in Carteret and 165 Halsey Street in Newark, New Jersey, the company has announced.

It may take a full three weeks to repair a submerged Internet cable that was damaged recently by an anchor in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, according to news reports. The damaged cable has led to major delays in Internet service provided to Kenya and nearby nations.

The island nation of Malta has announced plans to roll out Fiber to the Home (FTTH).

Fiberlink, a provider of software-as-a-service solutions for secure mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), announced a partnership deal with Bright Star Tech Data, to distribute Fiberlink's cloud-based MaaS360 Platform in the German, Austrian and Swiss markets.

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) recently announced that it will begin operating the NTT Communications Customer Portal which will be used for unified, international administration. The portal is called Arcstar Universal One and is a cloud-based enterprise network.

Global Internet traffic is growing tremendously thanks to increase in the usage of mobile devices that use the Internet for many applications. Consequently, the need for bandwidth has also increased tremendously. This in turn has driven the need for large-scale network upgrades that require higher density and lower power optical networks.

Baltimore-based dark fiber provider 24/7 Fiber Networks is re-launching its company under new ownership. The company will now be known as 24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network.

Cortina Systems, a provider of high-performance semiconductor technologies for the communications industry, announced it has successfully completed interoperability of its Optical Transport Network (OTN) processors with 100G fiber optic modules from Acacia Communications.

Zayo Group, a provider of fiber bandwidth infrastructure solutions and carrier neutral collocation, announced that it is going to create a high-capacity corridor for Ethernet and Wavelength transport.

Zhone Technologies, a provider of Fiber To-The-x (FTTx) network access solutions, announced it has deployed a new MXK solution at Palm Hills Developments, a real estate company in Egypt.

Clearfield, Inc., a company specializing in fiber optic communication and connectivity solutions for Internet (and other) service providers, just announced that it will be welcoming Rafael Fernandez to the company, to fill the position of Regional Sales Manager for the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) region. Fernandez, a citizen of Miami, Florida, has accepted the responsibility of managing the company's department in this large area. At this moment, Clearfield already has departments opened and developments established in countries like Costa Rica, Jamaica, Guatemala, Trinidad, Grenada, Panama and the United States Virgin Islands.

Telefonica, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalization, has selected Ceragon as one of its global microwave backhaul vendors.

GLOBAL TELECOM, a provider of broadband services in Colombia, recently announced the selection of KEITO Fiber to upgrade its network infrastructure across Colombia, which will help the company to deliver on its customers' requirements and effectively improve their experience.

To meet a surge of new customers and growing demand for high speed service, JAB Broadband, a wireless broadband service provider, signed a purchase agreement with DragonWave, a global supplier of packet microwave radios, for an additional mix of 200 DragonWave Horizon links.

B&B Electronics Manufacturing Co Inc recently announced that they had added new products to its portfolio of Ethernet serial servers. The new addition is the Vlinx VESP211 series of small form factor serial servers. The RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485 are connected to Ethernet networks via VESP211 Serial Servers with the serial devices function as nodes on the network. These compact servers have a footprint of just 5.1 x 7.6 x 2.5 cm, making the job of network-enabling any serial device easy, even in constricted installation spaces.

Currently, 12 companies that are members of the OIF are conducting global interoperability tests of Ethernet services over OTN transport. All of this testing is leading up to a demonstration at the OIF 2012 Enabling High-Speed Dynamic Services event, which is taking place from March 6-8, 2012. Vendors participating in the interoperability test include AT&T, China Telecom and NTT.

Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments in Europe have experienced 30.6 percent increase in annual growth across Europe to 3Q2011, according to a statement released by Broadband Forum at the FTTH Conference Europe.

Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber and bandwidth service provider, has landed a $380 million credit facility from GE Capital's Telecom, Media and Technology financing business.

A couple of news items this week underscore some important new developments in optical transport networking (OTN). The OIF revealed that it is coordinating an ongoing global interoperability test of Ethernet services over OTN transport. And apparently that sort of testing is just in time, as Infonetics is forecasting strong OTN growth, driven largely by growth in OTN switching revenue.

Southern Telecom will implement long-haul fiber optic services for Tower Cloud in the state of Georgia. Customers of the top fiber optic and wireless backhaul network provider Tower Cloud will be now provided increased bandwidth with the implementation of the long-haul fiber solutions.

Calix Inc has released an enhanced, cost-effective cloud-based Flow Analyzer. Flow Analyzer 2.0 has a standards-based interface which works together with common service provider billing systems, thereby allowing communication service providers to analyze data usage on their networks at the subscriber level. Subscriber network consumption at the application level can be viewed with the tool, allowing service providers to access information on subscriber usage patterns. Service packages based on behaviors can be now offered by service providers using Flow Analyzer's advanced visibility, allowing them to produce new revenues.

Simplifying optical fiber assessment within access and LAN/WAN networks, as well as data centers, EXFO Inc., has announced the integration of its proprietary iOLM technology to the FTB-720 LAN/WAN Access test module.

Ruckus Wireless claimed that the newly released ZoneFlex 7762-AC and 7762-S-AC are the industry's first 802.11n outdoor access points (APs) featuring purpose built capabilities for the service provider market including integrated AC power, optional fiber interface and support for up to 500 clients per AP.

Transaction Network Services, a provider of fast, reliable and secure transaction solutions, linked its Sydney and Brisbane offices using the Primus Metro Fiber over Optical Transport Network (OTN).

Tail-f Systems, a provider of configuration management and network automation software, announced partnership with BLiNQ Networks, a provider of wireless backhaul solutions, to bring management scalability to next generation small cell mobile networks.

Siklu's EtherHaul lived up to its reputation of delivering under all weather conditions when its low-cost high-capacity backhaul solution performed flawlessly in Mumbai, India during the 2011 monsoon season.

Lightwave Logic, Inc., a start-up technology firm focused on the development of a next generation, non-linear optical polymer materials platform for applications in high speed fiber-optic tele- and data communications, announced the introduction of a new Organic Nonlinear Material called Perkinamine.

The release of a new mobile backhaul initiative for 4G/LTE from MEF, a global industry alliance for accelerating adoption of Carrier Ethernet, was announced at the first Metro Ethernet Forum Quarterly Meeting for 2012. According to sources, it might spell good news for mobile operators and their access providers who are set to benefit from potential backhaul savings of 25 percent and excellent revenue growth opportunities over their existing network infrastructure.

MOSAID Technologies Inc, an intellectual property (IP) management company, recently announced that it had closed the sale of a portfolio of optical networking patents to a global corporation.

AT&T, in a decision that is parallel to an earlier decision made by Verizon Communications, has decided to halt further expansion of its fiber to neighborhood program (U-verse) beyond the 30 million homes that can or will soon be able to access the service.

Calix, Inc recently announced that it experienced significant growth in the fiber access market during 2011. The company has more than 1000 international customers and over 70% of them are deploying fiber access services across Calix's B-Series, C-Series, E-Series platforms, nodes and industry-leading portfolio of Optical Network Terminals (ONTs).

Telecommunications service provider Oceanic Broadband Solutions recently deployed Proxim Wireless Corporation's backhaul solutions to provide connectivity for the National Bank of Vanuatu (NBV).

Inteliquent is the new official brand name for Neutral Tandem and Tinet. As of February 7, 2012, the new name, along with the new stock ticker symbol, 'IQNT', will come into effect at the stock market for share trading.

A couple of recent networking announcements merit a closer look - including one from Lightower Fiber Networks about the company's launch of 100 Gbps wavelength services and one from NeXXCom Wireless about a new ultra-low-latency route based on microwave.

21Vianet Group, Inc., the largest carrier-neutral Internet data center services provider in China, has recently won the bid for radio spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band to provide broadband wireless access ("BWA") services in Hong Kong.

Google Fiber may sound a bit like a high-tech breakfast cereal, but it's actually a multi-city experiment in super-fast Internet being conducted by the search giant.

ADVA Optical Networking has launched a new User Network Interface (UNI) for its Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control plane, RAYcontrol.

One way is the carrier lit building list. Many carriers that own fiber provide these lists to their agents and sales people. It is a ready-made prospecting list.

Agilent Technologies has upgraded its N7109A multi-channel signal analyzer to support multichannel LTE, LTE-Advanced and MIMO RF measurement requirements, including LTE antenna beamforming and LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation.

Taking note of some of the top stories in dark fiber this past week, TMC reported that the newest product unveiled on XKL's DarkStar line, the DarkStar DSM, premiered at ITEXPO East 2012 in Miami.

EXFO, a provider of next-generation test and service assurance solutions for the global telecommunications industry, boosted its capabilities with the launch of a separate EXFO Apps section in its newly introduced store.

Zhone Technologies, a provider of network access software, announced that it has deployed more than 3,000 MXK multi-service access node (MSAN) platforms globally. Zhone is gaining from the growing demand for Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON), Active Ethernet (AE) and very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL2) connectivity.

3M announced new high-speed products from its 3M Twin Axial Cable Assembly lineup and they were demonstrated at the DesignCon 2012. The new solutions are supposed to offer design engineers with low-profile foldable cabling options for internal and external electronics applications and also enhance the airflow and cable management in them.

Polish network operator Sitel has reportedly selected Sorrento Networks' GigaMux 3200 DWDM platform to deliver broadband services throughout the south of Poland. Denver, CO-based Sorrento Networks said it has now partnered with Solutions for Technology (S4 Tech) for the purpose of carrying out the deal it landed with Sitel.

Sidera Networks recently announced that Interactive Telecom Solutions (ITS) had signed up to be its latest channel agent. ITS will now market Sidera Networks' services to its clients. In a release, Keith Muller, CEO of ITS said, "Sidera Networks is a natural choice for ITS to work with. Sidera has the network solutions, the underlying infrastructure, the support, and capabilities that our clients seek."

Much has been made recently of the agency agreements signed between Verizon Wireless and Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks, allowing each of the partners to sell the other parties' products.

RagingWire Data Centers has revealed that its Ashburn, Virginia facility has deployed its initial carriers including Level3 Communications, XO Communications, Verizon Business, FiberGate, Abovenet Communications, Fiberlight Communications and Yellow Fiber Communications. The carrier neutral facility offers complementary space and power for qualified facility-based fiber providers.

Clearfield, a provider of fiber management and connectivity platforms for communications providers, has unveiled two new products to address the communications industry's need for increased fiber density.

The newest product unveiled on XKL's DarkStar line, the DarkStar DSM, premiered at ITEXPO in Miami today. Like other DarkStar solutions, the DSM provides scalability to a nearly limitless amount of bandwidth. The DSM is the newest system in XKL's Dense Wave Division Multiplexing platform, which combines and transmits multiple signals simultaneously along the same fiber to multiply the fiber's carrying capacity.

EarthLink, Inc. recently announced that 100 Mbps Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) connections in Los Angeles and Chicago have been completed with their strategic partner XCast Labs, Inc. XCast Labs is a VoIP provider and an old member of EarthLink's AX ecosystem.

To meet increasingly demanding business needs of U.K.'s enterprise community, ADVA Optical Networking and Openreach, the infrastructure division of BT Group, have jointly launched a new optical spectrum access (OSA) service. Part of Openreach's optical spectrum service (OSS) portfolio, OSA provides new levels of network connectivity.

Fiber networks on the most important financial trading path between the financial centers of Chicago and New Jersey just got faster. In the pursuit of achieving zero latency, NeXXCom Wireless has effectively cut more than 3 milliseconds by leveraging the use of low latency microwave radio technology.

According to officials with Ciena, its newly transformed portfolio combines the scalability and reliability of optical with the flexibility and economics of Ethernet - all unified and automated with common management and operating software.

Comtrend Corporation has just launched two new wireless gateways for cable operators. The two wireless gateway systems CM-6200un and CM-6300n have been designed to be standard-compliant with DOCSIS 2.0 and DOCSIS 3.0 residential gateways, which enable remote management. Both wireless gateways are not only easy to install but are also environmentally friendly.

LOROM has recently debuted three new high speed data center cable solutions for its portfolio of Fortune 500 companies within the technology, medical and automotive industries. Data center cabling if left unmonitored can add to heating within a data center, enhancing the loss of signal integrity. Data center cable products from LOROM address this challenge through delivering a low Insertion Loss Deviation (ILD) solution, along with an advanced Integrated Cross-talk Noise (ICN) via its E-MAXX cable technology.

Siklu, with a robust performance in 2011, has ensured itself a top place in the wireless backhaul market.

Zayo Group announced plans to add dark fiber to ExteNet Systems, Inc.'s open network, to enable a Distributed Network solution. ExteNet builds and operates outdoor and indoor wireless networks for wireless service providers, government agencies, and transportation corridors across North America.

Belden announced the launch of its outdoor and direct burial analog audio, plenum jacketed and plenum Banana Peel snake cable lines.

The Holy Land is also likely to become the land of super-fast Internet connections, as it adopts a technology called "fiber to the home" (FTTH).

OptiSense Networks announced that it has entered into an agreement with IMS Power Quality for the distribution of its OptiSense Medium Voltage Optical Sensor solution to cover the Latin American region.

Savvis has launched various low latency connectivity options for trading companies that require access to interest rate swap futures transacted on Eris Exchange, LLC, the company has announced.

Intergraph is enabling utilities and communications organizations to better design, administer and maintain fiber networks with the launch of G/Technology Fiber Optic Works version 1.1. The new fiber network management tool from Intergraph expands fiber network information access to intranet and field users by introducing new network and analysis capabilities for Intergraph NetViewer and MobileViewer.

TeraXion recently announced that it has been chosen by Honeywell to provide high-end laser solutions for the development of the company's next generation of fiber optic gyroscopes. TeraXion is recognized for its design and manufacturing of high performance laser products.

Zayo Group recently announced that its brand of services will be leveraged for the expansion of the EAGLE-Net Alliance network capabilities across regions in Colorado and Wyoming based on an agreement between both companies. The company in its announcement said that the expansion of the EAGLE-Net Alliance network will include 511 miles of fiber connecting locations that cover the Cheyenne, Wyoming region all the way to Branson, Colorado, close to the New Mexico border.

FIBERTOWN, a Houston-based company providing high-availability colocation centers and business continuity office space, has added new telecom providers into its North Houston data center.

TelcoDepot.com officials have confirmed the availability of DIY cabling support and accessories on its online store.

Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the wholesale provider of Deutsche Telekom and Lattelecom, Latvia's tier one telecommunications service provider, have announced an alliance to give Europe a next generation network. The investment is expected to help operators in Russia and other neighboring states to address the needs of high speed Internet customers, which are ever-increasing in the region.

PMC-Sierra, a provider of Internet infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced its HyPHY OTN processors comply with the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)'s new OTN-over-Packet-Fabric Protocol Implementation Agreement (IA).

High Temperature Superconducting or 'HTS' materials have consistently been generating ample interest within the power technology markets. Apart from allowing enterprises to develop smaller and light weight rotating appliances, these materials also provide them with enhanced levels of energy efficiency.

Zhone Technologies, Inc, an international organization specializing in FTTx network access solutions, recently made an announcement about the implementation of a zNID Optical Network Terminal (ONT) in conjunction with the Clarksville Department of Electricity (CDE), a utility based out of Clarksville, TN. Together will build an FTTx network with Active Ethernet, enabling delivery of more reliable automated metering infrastructure (AMI), high-speed Internet access, VoIP and video services to homes and business related subscribers of Clarksville.

Procera Networks, Inc has unveiled new 100GE-capable Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) platform called, the PacketLogic 20000 (PL20000).

Level 3 Communications Inc has announced that it has been awarded the 'Service Provider of the Year" and "Best Business Ethernet Service" for its Ethernet services in the Caribbean and Latin American Regions by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). The MEF Carrier Ethernet Service Provider Awards identify excellence and leadership in the development, marketing and delivery of Carrier Ethernet Services.

CALIENT has announced that its FiberConnect 320X photonic switch will help trans-Pacific bandwidth wholesaler Southern Cross Cable Networks remotely reconfigure its fiber network within seconds. This will result in significant time and cost savings for Southern Cross.

Hibernia Atlantic, a transatlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, will be providing connectivity between Europe and the U.S. for Telefonica International Wholesale Services (TIWS).

Zayo Group, a national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services, has been selected by Meridian Joint School District in Idaho for its fiber network to the entire school.

Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber and bandwidth provider in the Northeast, was one of the attendees at PTC 2012.

Ciena Corporation recently made an announcement that they had been chosen by Lightower Fiber Networks to provide support in the delivery of Ethernet services and managed wavelengths for bandwidths going up to 100 Gb/s.. This service is aimed at all enterprise and service provider clients that are present through Lightower's footprint and is available as of now. These end-to-end fiber-based solutions from Lightower Fiber Networks are powered by Ciena's coherent optical technology, inclusive of a 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) service and 100G managed wavelengths.

CALIENT Technologies, Inc., an expert in adaptive photonic switching technology, announced a software upgrade for its FiberConnect 320X (FC320X) switches.

KDDI America, the US division of KDDI Corporation, has teamed with Rostelecom, the biggest Russian National carrier, for the launch of 10Gbps wavelength service that facilitates a high quality broadband network connection between Tokyo and Europe with the shortest distance. Thanks to its close collaboration with the Rostelecom operation team, KDDI has reportedly been operating at 100 percent availability on IPLC service between London and Tokyo.

Southern Cross Cable Networks, a trans-Pacific bandwidth wholesaler, has recently picked FiberConnect 320X photonic switch from CALIENT Technologies, for remote reconfiguration of network.

Today, security of information is critical to businesses of all sizes. Considering the rate at which hackers are stealing data from websites and online data resources, companies are taking extra steps to protect confidential information. Therefore, to secure customers' mission critical data, Germany's IT service provider to the financial industry, Finanz Informatik Technology Services (FI-TS), has deployed ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000's encryption technology.

Allied Fiber, known for owning, building and operating its own network-neutral fiber optical cable systems, cell towers, data centers etc, also provides companies in the industry with the Dark Fiber Community, an educational platform to share news and maintain discussions for thought leaders looking for new ways to overcome broadband access and fiber optic obstacles.

TMCnet recently asked some of the leading lights in the industry for their thoughts about 2011 and what's in store for the year ahead. Here's what Cheri Beranek, CEO of Clearfield Inc., had to say.

TE SubCom, a pioneer in undersea communications technology, claimed that it has successfully demonstrated 100 Gbits per second (Gbps) coherent transmission over trans-Atlantic distances at ultra-high 10 Tbits per second total capacity on a single fiber. Per TE SubCom's announcement, the test was completed using a prototype of the company's new, first generation smarTEr C100 transceiver.

Independent research organization, Pyramid Research has released its latest report entitled, "LTE Devices and Applications: Next-generation mobile networks driven by video service," which predicts that smartphones may be the largest segment by 2014, overtaking PCs.

Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, announced that Vaioni, the U.K.'s largest Ethernet aggregator, is deploying Ciena's Carrier Ethernet solutions as part of its enhanced Ethernet service offerings to enterprises, carriers and cloud providers

The FTB-5240S/B-P Optical Spectrum Analyzers from EXFO now have WDM-Aware testing capabilities, the company has announced.

Online Tech announced the completion of a new fiber optic build-out between the Ann Arbor and Mid-Michigan data centers.

Carrier neutral, sub-sea telecoms provider, Sea Fiber Networks recently inked a major fiber contract with Colt, one of Europe's leading information delivery platforms. The alliance will facilitate the creation of a major fiber gateway to Europe from Ireland and UK.

Telehouse Holdings Ltd, a provider of global data centers, has launched a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany.

Calix, Inc., a provider of a wide portfolio of broadband communications access systems and software that has been specifically designed for communications service providers, has revealed that Hawaiian Telcom, a company that delivers communications services, products and solutions in Hawaii, will be leveraging the company's portfolio to expand its footprint within the broadband network space.

Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber and bandwidth provider in the Northeast, announced that the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI), a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, will be making use of the Lightower diverse network solution as part of MBI's MassBroadband 123 initiative, a strategic network initiative which expands broadband and Internet throughout the state of Massachusetts.

Networking and communications equipment provider ADTRAN, Inc. has expanded its portfolio of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband access productline with the addition of Total Access 1600 series. According to ADTRAN, the new Total Access 1600 is a family of 1RU form-factor optical line terminals (OLTs) supporting either Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) or Ethernet FTTH (Active Ethernet).

Total Access 1600 series has been added by ADTRAN Inc. to its Fiber to the Home or FTTH portfolio. A family of 1RU form-factor optical line terminals or OLTs comprises the new Total Access 1600. Either Gigabit Passive Optical Network or GPON or Ethernet FTTH or Active Ethernet is supported by these OLTs. A compact addition to ADTRAN's FTTH product line is provided by these OLTs.

Lightower Fiber Networks, a provider of fiber network and bandwidth service for users in the Northeast, announced that its diverse network solution has been selected to drive a strategic network initiative by Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI). MBI, which is a part of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, decided to leverage the diverse network solution as a part of its MassBroadband 123 initiative for the expansion of broadband and Internet across the state of Massachusetts.

At the upcoming 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show from January 10-13, Accell has revealed that the company will be showcasing its new MHL cable.

Agiltron, Inc. has recently rolled out the new SelfAlign fiber optic switches in large NxN formats up to 500x500 ports.

Level 3 Communications, a provider of IP-based communications services for enterprise, content, government, and wholesale customers, announced that its executive vice president and chief financial officer, Sunit Patel, will be presenting at the Citi 2012 Entertainment, Media, and Telecommunications Conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Jan. 5. The company said that Sunit Patel will begin the presentation at approximately 11:10 a.m. PT (2:10 p.m. ET).

Now on to some of the top dark fiber stories from the past week.

Verizon, a provider of broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services, has held on to its position as a network leader via its expanded network capabilities as well as new deployments of its wireline and wireless technologies across a number of strategic projects. The company has been successful in addressing the needs of its clients by focussing on providing faster speeds, increased capacity, resilience, and efficiency on both operational and technological fronts. Currently, Verizon's global network covers 670,000 route miles and spans six continents.

Bishop & Associates Inc. has just released a new detailed report that covers multi-gigabit data communications connectors and cable assemblies. This market research report contains in-depth analysis of the market for these products, along with profiles of some of the top vendors in the different networking segments: Ethernet, Fiber Channel, and InfiniBand. It features key market trends, competitive landscape along with profiles of some of the top vendors in the different networking segments as well as elaborate five-year forecasts.

Tektronix, a manufacturer of oscilloscopes, announced a set of enhancements and extensions to its SFF 8431 SFP+ compliance and debug offering.

According to new report from Pyramid Research, fiber optic subscriptions are expected to rise dramatically during the next few years. Pyramid Research, a provider of practical solutions to the complex demands its clients face in the global communications industry, states that Asia-Pacific's total fiber subscriptions are expected to nearly triple from 73.5m in 2011 to reach 204.9m by 2016.

UtilX, a unit of its Utility T&D segment, has completed four million feet of cable remediation on the Commonwealth Edison system in conjunction with its partner, INTREN, Willbros Group has announced.

S.I. Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic communication devices for LAN, WAN, Industrial, as well as in Military Applications, announced the successful development of a new "Industrial Ethernet" to Fiber Optic Bit Driver.

We wish all readers a merry Christmas and a blessed holiday season. Let's catch you up on the dark fiber news from the past week so you can get to the more important things, like presents, football, family and eggnog.

Cologix, a premier provider of network neutral interconnection and colocation services, has expanded its customer relationship with Beanfield Metroconnect. Beanfield Metroconnect, an existing Cologix customer in Toronto, owns and operates the largest private fiber-optic network throughout downtown Toronto.

Work has begun to install the fastest transatlantic cable around, and when complete it will save its users six milliseconds in transmissions. That minute amount can save millions for financial services companies. So the price tag to build the "Hibernian Express," over $300 million, makes sense.

Telx, a leading company offering advanced data center services, recently announced that its carrier-neutral C3 Cloud Connection Center has been selected by SunStream Networks, a provider of private cloud network services over a fiber optic infrastructure.

Zayo, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth Infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services, announced it has completed the process of acquiring 360networks, to form one of the largest Bandwidth Infrastructure companies in North America.

Zayo Group, provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services, has announced the successful completion of a fiber build into the Green House Data facility, SSAE 16, Type II data center.

The United States isn't exactly the most developed country as far as Internet speed is concerned. Recently, though, companies have been aggressively extending their capabilities, promising new high-speed Internet services for its customers. The demand on fiber-optic cables from these companies put a strain on suppliers and delayed some of the projects put forth by ISPs.

American Founders Bank recently selected tw telecom to avail its advanced voice and data services to its seven locations in Kentucky.

Fiber optic connections are being installed by Sunesys. Philadelphia Technology Park's customers will be now linked with Sunesys' network. A network of over 3,000 route miles of fiber has already been laid by Sunesys in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A joint announcement in this regard has been made by Philadelphia Technology Park and Sunesys.

Fibrenoire, a Canadian service provider offering Internet and private network services over an optical fiber network, announced the deployment of Cisco Carrier Ethernet System covering the Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto regions.

GigOptix, Inc., a supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high speed information streaming in the communications, industrial, defense and avionics sectors, has announced a $6M revision in its credit agreement with Silicon Valley Bank, a bank for businesses within the technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine sectors.

OOBAXS, a console access authority for data centers and broadcasting and a company that has been instrumental in bringing the latest technologies to data centers helping them improve anytime access, image/video quality, productivity, access speed, and a more flexible infrastructure, is now bringing High Definition (HD) KVM DVI Draco matrix switches to the Hollywood.

All GreenTouch members can now avail the national dark fiber testbed network from the Energy Sciences Network or ESnet. This network will help GreenTouch members to conduct energy efficiency network research. An announcement in this regard has been made by the global industry initiative, GreenTouch.

Orckit-Corrigent, a Packet Transport Network (PTN) provider, and TELSOL, a telecom group in Central America, announced that Cable Color, a service provider in Honduras, has selected Orckit-Corrigent's IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP based CM-4000 PTN switches and CM-View network management system to unveil broadband and enterprise VPN services.

The first major European sub-sea cable has been launched by Sea Fibre Networks or SFN. This launch marks a major watershed for international connectivity between Ireland and the UK. Europe's most advanced sub-sea telecoms network CeltixConnect is owned and operated by SFN.

The fiber optic cable installation industry is likely to experience significant revenue growth over the next five years, according to IBISWorld.

Inland Fiber & Data, an owner and operator of data center, colocation and disaster recovery facilities in Florida and Colorado, recently reported a stronger tie with Oracle, as the computer technology giant welcomes Inland Fiber & Data into its PartnerNetwork family.

In recent years, there has been a dramatic rise in the demand for bandwidth. In a tight economy, the carriers and developers seek the maximum use of their development dollars for fiber to the home, fiber optic to cell site, backhaul and long haul fiber deployments.

Center for Development of Telematics has been acknowledged by the Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association for its successful development of the Gigabit Passive Optical Network Technology. The GPON technology, which is a critical component for supporting seamless broadband connectivity over optical fiber, has seen successful deployment over the BSNL Network at Ajmer, Rajasthan.

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) organizers revealed that Isao Sugino, director of the Research and Development Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) in Japan, will address the plenary session of the conference.

ADVA Optical Networking, a provider of network connectivity solutions, unveiled that its ADVA FSP 3000 is selected by Syringa Networks, an Idaho-based regional provider of high-speed fiber optic services, to provide connectivity throughout its Idaho footprint.

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN), a wholly-owned subsidiary of City Telecom, which is considered the fastest growing broadband service provider in Hong Kong, claims to have changed the Internet experience for Discovery Bay residents with the launch of its fiber-optic network.

Sagebrush Cable Engineering a San Francisco based cable engineering company, has successfully completed a project involving 21 miles of engineering and 10 miles of underground engineering in the Palmdale and Santa Clarita area in southern California. The project was done for the internationally-known Freedom Telecom Services, full-service fiber optic engineering, construction and splicing company. Based on the quality of service delivered on the project work in Southern California, Freedom Telecom Services has awarded Sagebrush Cable Engineering another large project in the San Fernando Valley.

Arsalon Technologies, LLC will be provided a dark fiber ring in the greater Kansas City Metro area by Zayo Group. Spanning 45 miles, the new dark fiber ring will extend from the Kansas City International Airport to College Boulevard. Arsalon will further provide business-class web hosting, managed solutions, colocation and dedicated hosting by utilizing this new ring. These solutions and hosting will be provided by Arsalon to the technology community in the region.

The fiber network infrastructure of tw telecom will be leveraged by Latisys. Enterprise customers at the Latisys-Ashburn data center campus will be delivered high bandwidth, high-density or HD connectivity.

Dark fiber is a hot area right now, here are some of the top news stories of the past week.

San Diego-based Psiber Data Systems Inc has announced the launch of a fast, more powerful cable certification system for qualifying high-performance cabling installations.

HickoryTech Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IdeaOne Telecom Group, a metro fiber network provider in Fargo, North Dakota.

Idaho-based regional provider of high-speed fiber optic services Syringa Networks is using the ADVA FSP 3000 to provide connectivity throughout its Idaho footprint.

ADVA Optical Networking, a provider of intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions, announced that its ADVA FSP 3000 data transport solution is going to enable Syringa Networks, an Idaho-based regional provider of high-speed fiber optic services, to deliver connectivity throughout their Idaho footprint.

In an effort to beef up its ability to serve the rapidly growing Asian market in Internet services, Google has revealed that it plans to spend $300 million on a new data center in Hong Kong, the company's first data center facility in Asia. The new center is expected to be up and running by 2013, says the search giant. Ground was broken for the construction project today.

Colocation America, a premier U.S. data center provider recently announced partnership with Dome9 Security to provide automated cloud security firewall management service to Colocation America's growing customer base.

Altai Technologies, a supplier of Super WiFi equipment revealed that it has successfully completed trials of its end-to-end WISP solution with fiber optics and WiMAX operators in North America.

Zayo Group will be using the $315 million it raised in a new five-year loan for the acquisition of 360networks. The deal totaled $345 million, with the balance coming from cash. The 360networks' deal gives the company a major expansion. With the acquisition, 360networks' wholesale VoIP business has become part of Onvoy Voice Services, the company said.

The Calix Unified Access portfolio has been selected by Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom. WCVT's three-year network transformation project will be now supported by Calix. The Mad River and Central Champlain Valley regions of Vermont are served by the independent, privately owned telephone company, WCVT.

As broadband disruptions for business and home consumers grow at a disturbing pace, infrastructure provider Next Connex claims that the company offers fast, scalable, cost-effective and reliable network connectivity in these times.

In spite of red tape and layers of regulations in India, the Internet and mobile communication services have steadily improved in the country for last several years, driven primarily by the mobile private sector. Motivated by this growth, even the state government backed telecom companies like BSNL and MTNL have been improving their services to keep up with the private sector.

Amino Communications, a global provider of IPTV/OTT solutions, announced that it sold and shipped its four millionth set-top box (STB).The Netherlands-based fiber network operator Glashart Media, who has been working with Amino for the last six years, will be deploying the four millionth device - an M540 PVR IPTV set-top box.

TE Connectivity, a manufacturer of solutions that connect and protect the flow of power and data, announced that its newly released plug-and-play cabling solution for indoor Passive Optical Network (PON) architectures is one of the most green and OPEX-friendly solutions in the market.

Emerald Networks, Inc is all set to deploy the highest capacity, low latency, transatlantic submarine cable system between the U.S. and Europe to meet the ever increasing high density data requirements between both the countries. This project is expected to complete by the spring of 2013.

Epsilon Telecommunications announced that it has simplified service delivery by upgrading its Singapore metro network with BTI Systems Dynamic Optical Layer. All its major colocation facilities in Singapore will get to enjoy full wavelength and service flexibility with this upgrade.

LightSquared, a wholesale carrier building a nationwide wireless broadband network that will create consumer choice and drive industry innovation, recently entered a partnership agreement with Cellular Product Distributors (CPD- USA), a designer and distributor with 25 years of mobile product and accessory experience.

ADTRAN Inc., in January, formally unveiled the Advanced Operational Environment, which brings element management systems, an OSS gateway and service management under one umbrella, as a management framework focused on service delivery and operational improvement that abstracts hardware from the network manager's user interface. The solution became generally available in October. And last week the company offered an update on what's next for AOE.

After releasing countless announcements of partnerships and network expansion in the past couple of months alone, Zayo, provider of fiber-based Bandwidth Infrastructure and network-neutral collocation and interconnection services, and member of the Dark Fiber Community, has more news to add to its list of accomplishments this year.

EXFO Inc. announced that it has received a follow-on order from a tier-1 North American network operator who requires more of its AXS-200/635 Copper, VDSL2, ADSL2+ and IP Triple-Play Test Set.

Always something happening with dark fiber, here are some news stories you may have missed from the past week.

The ever increasing number of mobile phone calls being made and high bandwidth wireless data being transferred every moment in the form of photos, music and videos has been exerting a heavy load upon the wireless networks worldwide. This phenomenon has been compelling telecommunication carriers to look for other alternatives for data transmission.

An intercity fiber network has been completed by Unite Private Networks LLC or UPN. The local networks of UPN in Denver, Aurora, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo are now connected. The company has therefore expanded its presence in Colorado Front Range. Local organizations are now provided increased communications options. UPN is one of the largest turn-key providers of Fiber Optic Wide Area Networks or WANs in the nation.

EXFO, a provider of next-generation test and service assurance solutions, has launched the first ever multi-rate field testing solution for up to 100G and has set simplicity in the configuration and testing of 100G/40G high-speed networks.

As the data transfer speeds are increasing day by day, the need for efficient twisted-pair cables capable to handle high speed data transfer is rising to enable enterprises to meet the challenges of the market.

Innovasic Semiconductor, a leading provider of extended life semiconductor solutions for customers who have products with long life-cycles, recently unveiled a new technology for device-level Ethernet.

Zayo plans to expand its fiber network into San Diego, California. This network will exceed 400 route miles throughout the San Diego metropolitan area when completed fully.

PAETEC Holding and its subsidiaries have announced they recently awarded a three-year contract by the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) to provide Fort Drum with fiber and dense wavelength division multiplexing "DWDM" services.

GL Commnications has announced that the company has introduced IPNetSim is an IP network simulator.

Bad news came for Verizon today in another blow against its FiOS IPTV service and rulings regarding patent infringement. U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson has ordered Verizon to pay more than $11 million in royalties each month to a company called ActiveVideo if it wishes to continue providing customers with its popular FiOS video on demand (VOD) services.

, Windstream Corp., a Little Rock, Ark. based provider of communications and technology solutions, has announced that its application to acquire PAETEC Holding Corp., a provider of personalized communications solutions to business-class customers, has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Both the companies had announced the transaction on August 1, 2011.

IPC Systems, a provider of high- and low-touch trading communications solutions, announced that it has launched a new financial extranet service for facilitating trading lifecycle communications - Connexus.

Infinera, a provider of digital optical networking systems, announced that Midcontinent Communications has utilized the Infinera's DTN platform to expand its optical network footprint to cover newly acquired territories and the expansion has supposedly added 1000 miles in Minnesota to the existing network.

Clearfield, Inc, a specialist in fiber management and connectivity platforms for communications providers, recently announced in a press release that its FieldSmart platform is selected by West Kentucky and Tennessee Telecommunications Cooperative (WK&T).

Daisy Group plc, a leading provider of unified communications to businesses, and BT Wholesale have entered into a strategic agreement involving the supply of BT's wholesale calls, Ethernet and business broadband products to Daisy's customer base.

In an effort to grab the opportunities that Easter Europe's emerging market offers to the global IP transit industry, NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) expanded the reach of its Tier 1 Global IP Network in Europe. The company has reportedly created new Point of Presence (POP) locations in Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia.

Dark fiber is a growing field where there's always something happening. Here are some of the news stories from the past week.

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), a provider of global networks, management solutions and IT services to customers worldwide, announced its global telecommunications carrier partners renewed their commitment to enhancing their delivery and operation of NTT Com's Arcstar global network services.

As a part of its long-term strategy to expand data center and interconnection services, North America's leading data center services provider, Telx, is going to build a new data center facility in Clifton, New Jersey. This new purpose built facility will be able to provide 100,000 plus square feet of customizable colocation space to global customers.

Sidera Networks, a provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, has expanded its network into Sentinel Data Centers' NJ-1 data center. Sidera Networks's high-capacity communications services are preferred by carrier and enterprise customers. Its comprehensive suite of facilities-based services includes Ethernet, SONET, wavelength, dark fiber, Internet access, colocation and others. Its fiber optic network delivers connectivity to the major metropolitan areas from Maine to Virginia and out to Chicago, as well as access to Toronto and London.

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in North American markets, announced that Trading Continuity Services (TCS), a provider of data protection and disaster recovery/business continuity solutions, has joined Telx Financial Business Exchange (FBX).

According to market research firm Ovum, despite the availability of components and equipments, market demand for the 10 Gbit per second Ethernet Passive Optical Network standard, also known as 10G EPON, outside of China will remain low until 2013. In a new report, the independent telecoms analyst states that while components companies have been under pressure by equipment vendors and service providers to develop 10G EPON components, the momentum has slowed down.

Louisville, CO based national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services Zayo Group recently announced that it is expanding its fiber footprint in Nashville, TN.

Avago Technologies, a supplier of analog interface components, announced that it demonstrated its parallel optical fiber technology at the SC11 supercomputing conference. The demo featured MiniPOD and MicroPOD embedded parallel optical transmitter and receiver modules that can deliver bandwidth of up to 120 Gigabits per second (Gbps).

Calix, Inc., a provider of a broad range of broadband communications access systems and software, recently named seven communications service provider customers as the winners of the inaugural Calix Innovation award. The announcement was made at the Calix User Group Conference in Las Vegas.