Here\u2019s a roundup of some of some of this week\u2019s headlines from the network industry:<\/p>\n
Zayo selected by Hurricane Electric for 100G backbone.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Zayo Group announced that Hurricane Electric Internet Services has purchased 100G wavelength services on Zayo’s newly installed 100G routes. The upgraded routes include New York to Washington, D.C. and Chicago to Memphis.\u00a0Hurricane Electric is connected to 60 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 2,700 different networks, and the 100G routes will help create greater per Gigabit cost efficiencies relative to prior service deployments. “Installation of our newly implemented 100G Wave system along major U.S. routes allows Zayo to leverage the latest generation technology to meet the capacity demands of customers like Hurricane Electric,” says Zach Nebergall, Vice President of Waves Product Group at Zayo. “This service delivers increased capacity and cost efficiency, as well as improved latency through the latest technology.”<\/p>\n Ciena selected by XO for video transport solution<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Ciena (CIEN)\u00a0announced that XO Communications will use Ciena\u2019s\u00a0Digital Video Transport solution\u00a0to deliver native digital video transport services to media and entertainment customers across the XO nationwide network. With\u00a0XO Communications\u2019 coast-to-coast 100G network, the Ciena solution will allow\u00a0XO to cost-effectively transport high-definition video content for its customers without affecting original quality. The solution\u00a0\u00a0includes the\u00a0565 Advanced Services Platform,<\/a>\u00a0a compact and cost-optimized metro WDM platform that enables a variety of data, storage and video services to be cost-efficiently aggregated onto an optical wavelength-based network or service.The Digital Video Transport solution will be deployed in conjunction with other Ciena platforms in the XO network.\u00a0\u201cIn the media and entertainment industry, uptime, video quality, and secure, high-speed service delivery are critical,” said Francois Locoh-Donou, senior vice president, Global Products group at Ciena. “Ciena\u2019s highly reliable, scalable and flexible optical platforms, part of our OPN programmable network architecture, address the specific requirements of native digital video transport. We\u2019re pleased to help XO Communications deliver a secure and reliable solution so that they can quickly and cost-effectively send bandwidth-intensive, high quality video between geographically dispersed teams.\u201d<\/p>\n