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Category: Wireless Backhaul/Fronthaul
Verizon’s 5G Fronthaul Fiber Sustainability
Proficient, long-time networking engineers and planners comprehend that designing architectures can be really tough, and they realize the main reason Verizon wants to do home-runs…
OFC 2019: Nine Additional Odds and Ends
Before getting to the subject of this article, I need to point out the most significant and outstanding event at OFC: Mitch Fields at the…
CenturyLink/Zayo: Verizon’s Forewarning
While Verizon’s first-mover position with 5G wireless in the US will offer many advantages, including a locality just simply wanting to avoid the negative aesthetics…
Ciena and Ericsson: The Virtualized Merger
The “Nortelization” process at Ciena started several years before the supplier actually bought Nortel Networks’ assets. Former Nortel executives slowly worked their way into the…
ADVA: Next Optics Dynamo in NA
The combination of the apparent penetration of ADVA Optical Networking into the incumbent ISP transport gear marketplace, along with the anticipation of the number of…
Verizon Retains “Oath” of Fealty to Itself
The “Oath” division of the most inventive, incumbent ISP on the planet, including the design of a long-haul network, which is as “future-proof” as humanly…
Arris + CommScope = Another M&A Decoy
An industry observer is expected to believe that CommScope, which was on the record at Investor Day, several months before the announcement of the merger…
Muse CenturyLink-T-Mobile-Sprint Combo
Why would Sunit Patel, who has been the loyal enabler of Level 3, particularly with his expertise in debt refinancing, now part of CenturyLink, be…
Cisco/Luxtera: Loss Leader and Defensive Move
After the initial news report that Cisco Systems was working on an agreement to acquire Luxtera, most people in the industry, who had a least…
