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Quintillion selects Ciena

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Anchorage-based Quintillion is deploying Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform to support the first phase of its 15,000-kilometer intercontinental subsea fiber system that is planned to connect Europe and Asia by way of the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. With power and space limitations in the North American Arctic, the compact size and low power consumption benefits of the 8700 efficiently provides a scalable, secure and reliable solution.

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Rukmini Glanard names new senior management team for North, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Israel (EUNO).

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Future deployment will enable Ooredoo Algeria to offer high capacity-based solutions to its subscribers.

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US telcos move ahead on NFV as Europe watches: 2017 predictions

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While huge progress has been made this year toward the development of virtualized services, a variety of challenges remain before widespread service roll-out can commence. 2017 will be the year that the industry takes positive steps to overcome these barriers, says Pravin Mirchandani, CMO at OneAccess Networks, who shares his five key predictions for the year ahead.

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Interest in NFV interoperability testing initiative

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To further enhance Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) industrialization and support the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) project, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia have signed Memorandum of Understanding to create the NFV Interoperability Testing Initiative (NFV-ITI).

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