Bob Barron, 43, former head of start-up Chromatis Networks, will become head of Lucent’s newly dubbed Metropolitan Optical Networking unit. Just as important, this unit will be moved into Lucent ...

Nokia, NOK, makes a deal to buy Infinera, INFN, for $2 billion while selling its Alcatel Submarine Networks, ASN, business to France for about $375 million.

Nokia Siemens’ optical networking unit mainly sells DWDM (dense wavelength-division multiplexing) equipment, which is used in operator backbone networks. Its competition includes the likes of ...

Proficium LLC (“Proficium”), the Bay Area-based optical networking and cable supplier to hyperscale and AI-based data centers, today announced the hir ...

California-based optical networking equipment maker Infinera is set to become part of Nokia, after the two companies signed a $2.3 billion acquisition agreement. The deal will see Nokia’s own optical ...