Ericsson, Telstra, and Ciena have announced new enhancements to Telstra's Next Generation Optical Network, which will increase the service capacity of Telstra's optical network to 400 GE (Gigabit per Second Ethernet).

Samsung and Ciena have entered into an agreement to deliver 5G network solutions to the market. 

Colt Technology Services will provide connectivity for Wasabi Technologies’ first data center in Asia Pacific, located in Japan.

Lumea and Ciena have collaborated on transforming Lumea’s telecommunications services to offer customers high-speed 100G+ Wavelength services.

The 13,494 kilometre-long NEXT submarine cable that traverses the Pacific Ocean, which will be completed in early 2022.

According to research by Dell’Oro shows that the global market is finding its feet again with vendor ranking remaining stable.

"Ciena’s DCI platform will enable us to provide the agile foundation our customers need to thrive in a competitive marketplace and COVID-19 environment.”

"By implementing Ciena’s WL5e, Vodafone can better manage network requirements to support its recently launched 5G service."

“The new O-OLS from Ciena provides great flexibility and scalability, enabling us to strengthen our European network within our core transport infrastructure."

Among other telecommunications infrastructure market findings, Dell’Oro reports that Huawei increased its share by 8 percentage points since 2013.

Telstra’s customers across Asia Pacific will soon be able to take advantage of major major boosts to Telstra’s network services and subsea cables.

Following a partnership with Ciena, the subsea cable's transmission speeds have increased 53 percent.

"Deployment of these technologies will help Telstra to prepare for the ever-increasing demand for data."

In Asia, Colt specialises in low latency networks and provides connectivity to all major Asia exchanges.

Encrypted data was successfully transmitted between Los Angeles and Melbourne at 100 Gbps.

The system has been implemented in partnership with Vodafone’s optical partner Ciena, and test equipment specialist, EXFO.

The move is aimed at improving public services across the Sydney Trains transportation system.

"As one of Ciena's diamond level partners, we are providing the right combination of services to help enterprise customers grow and achieve success."

“The ultimate objectives are to maximize the end-users control of their network resources and cloud connectivity."

KB Kookmin Bank, the biggest financial institution in Korea, has boosted its security with the help of Ciena encryption capabilities.

"This is exactly the type of collaboration we need to drive the industry forward."

“The Internet of Things era is here, and service providers across the country are looking at ways to cater for this explosion in data."

Two in five data centers in Singapore and Korea have networks 1Gbps+ connections to enterprise customers. So how does the rest of APAC fare?

Vodafone New Zealand and network specialist Ciena Corporation have completed a successful field trial of 400Gb/s data transmission over an existing optical link carrying live network traffic.