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• July 22, 2010
  ADVA Optical Networking reports Q2 2010 financial results with revenues exceeding guidance More
• July 8, 2010
  ADVA Optical Networking drives green networking through European research project More
• July 1, 2010
  ADVA Optical Networking signs agreement on investment from Juniper Networks More
• June 22, 2010
  ADVA Optical Networking and Spread Networks provide less than 13.33ms low-latency connectivity between New York and Chicago More

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• 100GBE – The Future of Ethernet
  The development of 100GbE, like 10GbE and 1GbE before it, is being driven by bandwidth exhaustion. At first glance, the development cycle of 100GbE seems to mirror earlier 10GbE and 1GbE efforts, but there are several key areas where 100GbE breaks new ground. For the first time, the bandwidth of the data stream is on the same scale as color channel spacing. Thus, new spectrally efficient modulation techniques can be employed. Also, MAC and PHY data rates have been separated. Any PHY rate can be used, enabling efficient channelization. For the first time, a new Ethernet standard has been optimized for networking and computing applications. On the surface, 100GbE is just the latest speed boost for Ethernet, but if you dig deeper you will find that 100GbE offers much more. Read on to discover the promise of 100GbE.
• A Look behind the Cloud – An Introduction to Grid/Cloud Computing
  Over the last few years a multitude of new technologies in the IT industry have promoted the rollout of new applications and business models. In particular, the proliferation of smart mobile devices, high-speed connectivity, higherdensity computing and data-intensive Web 2.0 applications have created demand for a less static and more flexible IT infrastructure. This trend was reinforced by the global economic crisis, which has forced enterprises to rethink their IT strategy to enable a more flexible, right-sized IT environment. As a result, vendors across the IT industry have announced efforts incorporating varying levels of IT outsourcing that have become known as Cloud Computing.
• Introducing WDM into Next-Generation Access Networks
  As access networks have struggled to keep pace with the explosion in bandwidth consumption, the number of network types and protocols have jumped dramatically, reaching untenable levels. Today, there are more types of access networks than ever before: DSL, HFC, WiFi, 3G, A/B/GPON, GE/10GEPON, WiMAX – the list goes on and on. This protocol explosion is a byproduct of the urgent response by bandwidth providers to meet surging bandwidth consumption. At the same time, revenue-per-bit is in decline. The price consumers are willing to pay for bandwidth has not kept pace, leaving bandwidth providers in a pinch.

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