Deals Of The Day 10/23/12
FiberLight LLC deployed Ciena’s industry-leading packet networking solutions to build mobile backhaul networks for two unnamed “major” U.S. wireless operators. In West Texas, FiberLight is building a dedicated, fiber-optic backhaul network for a LTE wireless provider that needed to increase bandwidth at each tower to 100 Mb/s, with the option to scale up; the solution is being built on 3,300 miles of new route fiber and will be powered by Ciena’s 3900 Family of packet networking products at the network edge. To support another top tier U.S. wireless operator, FiberLight will use Ciena solutions to replace the T1 and microwave towers with a dedicated, fiber-optic backhaul network. Once complete, the deployment will provide Ethernet connectivity at a total of 200 cell towers in Texas, Washington, Maryland and Florida while connecting towers with six major aggregation sites. Additionally, FiberLight’s customers can monitor their Service Level Agreement parameters through a secure, cloud-based portal…Metro fiber and bandwidth provider Lightower Fiber Networks added access into the 32-story Intergate Manhattan facility owned by Sabey Data Center Properties at 375 Pearl Street in Manhattan’s financial district. The facility covers financial services, life sciences, telcos, colocation, managed hosting, and cloud…Scandanavia’s Danmon Group will distribute Sencore’s line of video-delivery and test-and-measurement products throughout Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Under the new agreement, Danmon Norge, Danmon Danmark and Danmon Svenska will sell and support Sencore’s modular receiver decoders, multiscreen adaptive bit rate and file-based transcoders and satellite modulators as well as IP and MPEG analysis equipment.