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2024 turned out to be horror year for telecommunications equipment providers throughout the world, with massively declining revenues, according to a prominent market analyst.

Telstra's global arm Telstra International has announced a plan to upgrade its international network, which includes boosting the capacity of its subsea cable infrastructure from its current 235 Tbps to more than 800 Tbps of total lit capacity.

New coherent optical technology allows Southern Cross to ride the Terabit wave

Optical and routing systems provider Ciena has launched a 1.6Tb/s coherent-lite pluggable to help cloud and data centre providers cope with the expected growth in cloud, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) related traffic.

Preliminary findings indicate that worldwide telecom equipment revenues across the six telecom programs—broadband access, microwave and optical transport, mobile core network (MCN), radio access network (RAN), and SP router and switch—declined 16% year-over-year in 2Q24, recording a fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit contractions, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Australian telecommunications company Telstra claimed it achieved a 1.6Tb/s through a single optical channel over 700km with Ericsson using Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) in a trial conducted alongside live traffic services across the central Telstra InfraCo fibre route between Melbourne and Canberra.

Digital infrastructure solutions provider Telstra InfraCo has announced the launch of a Core Restoration feature which will provide a “new resiliency option” for customers with high-capacity wavelength services.

Now in its second year, American telecommunications equipment provider Ciena, Digicel Fiji, and Southern Cross have joined forces to provide schools in Fiji with internet access of at least 10Mbps via the Digicel Fiji network.

Specialist international capacity provider Southern Cross is planning to deploy Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) technology as a key part of the company’s Next expansion plans from Sydney to Los Angeles.

Australian telecommunications company Vocus will deploy telecommunications service provider Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) 1.6TB/s coherent technology across its long haul and metro links.

Following its upgrade on the Indigo Submarine Cable, undersea networks systems company Subco has deployed Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme technology, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme in the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, to increase the capacity of the Oman Australia Cable (OAC) to a maximum of 48Tb/s, helping support increased bandwidth demands.

Avaroa Cable, Ciena, BW Digital, and Vodafone Cook Islands (Vodafone) are working together to improve connectivity for 30 schools in the Cook Islands for the next three years (2023-2026).

New Zealand telecommunications and digital services provider Spark has tapped telecommunications service provider Ciena to implement its second-generation Optical Transport Network (OTN 2.0), a fibre-based network that provides the backbone and core connectivity between all the main cities in New Zealand.

American telecommunications network equipment supplier Ciena, Digicel Fiji, and Southern Cross have jointly launched Project Semata to provide 10Mbps internet access and online learning resources to three schools in Savusavu, Fiji: Kamendra School, Savusavu Secondary School and St. Bedes Secondary School.

Optical networking specialist Infinera has appointed Ryan Perera to the role of senior vice president of APAC sales.

Telecommunications company Ciena unveils the next generation of its WaveLogic technology, optimised for high-capacity transport required with next-generation routing data paths and associated wholesale services.

Specialist international capacity provider Southern Cross Cables launched the availability of 400GbE services on its Southern Cross Next cable between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.

Networking systems, services and software company, Ciena, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tibit Communications, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Petaluma, California, and acquired Benu Networks, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Seventy percent of Australian professionals would participate in work meetings in the metaverse trailing only the global average of 78%, according to a study commissioned by American telecommunications equipment company Ciena.

Demand for optical transport equipment remained strong in North America during 2Q 2022 as the market grew 10% year-over-year, according to market firm Dell’Oro Group.