While the industry narrative continues to push the illogical idea that AT&T is leading the pack internationally as a transformational player, the operator has seemed…
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Calix’s CEO Still at Top of His Game
Over the last 15 years or so, a lot of great executive talent has left the telecom/datacom optical space either because they made a killing…
SDN Crack-Up?
About a half of a decade after the announcement of the establishment of the Open Networking Foundation, a recent survey of over 3,000 customers internationally…
Google’s Fiber: Laugh All the Way to Bank
The contest by Alphabet’s Google itself among the cities in 2010 was a brilliant stroke of genius in that it cost the company practically nothing,…
Huawei’s Public Cloud: Impact on Optics
As the slowdown in China continues, there is little hesitation for optical component vendors to blow up the potential for market opportunities, which will hardly…
CommScope/Arris Combo: Sway of MSOs
Assuming the report of negotiations in Reuters is true, and if CommScope decides to purchase Arris International, despite dealing with some difficulties, it would likely…
Nokia’s Unchanged Strategy to Exit Optics
Even prior to closing the deal, Nokia Networks’ purchase of Alcatel-Lucent surrounded the former contemplating divesting the submarine optics division of the latter. The major…
Google: Objectives and Undesirable Results
In the past, fibeReality has addressed the matter that Google/Alphabet’s publicly stated objectives in getting into new businesses, including in the optical realm, need to…
Verizon Wireless: 5G Home Subterfuge
In some ways, Verizon has a worse credibility situation in the short term with its current emphasis on residential applications for 5G, than what happened…
Finisar Could be Telegraphing 5G Fronthaul Gear
fibeReality is aware of some speculation that Finisar’s CEO, Michael Hurlston, was supposedly brought in to build up the 3D-sensing business in order to sell…
