MarketWatch: Ciena Broadens as Zhone Narrows Remit
Last week saw a juxtaposition of moves in carrier networking when on the same day, WDM and Ethernet vendor Ciena announced the acquisition of World Wide Packets, while broadband infrastructure provider Zhone sold off a couple of businesses to focus entirely on access.
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- Zhone Launches WDM Edge Boxes vs. MSPP Devices Zhone Technologies, a developer of access technology for network operators, has launched devices integrating C/DWDM optical transport, GbE and TDM to compete with multi-service provisioning platforms from the likes of Cisco and Ciena.
- Zhone Offers GPON Blade and Smart ONT Zhone Technologies has launched a Gigabit passive optical network product for carriers that it said offers gradualism and investment protection in a multi-service access platform.
- Ciena Predicts 20% Growth Despite Subprime Turmoil Carrier networking vendor Ciena is predicting growth of 20% in 2008, when its global market is expected to be growing at around 4% to 5%.
- Ciena Booms as Carriers Seek More Bandwidth Optical networking vendor Ciena has upped its 2007 revenue growth forecast to a 36% increase to $737m, from its earlier forecast of 27% to 30%, after a boom in business as a result of soaring demand for internet bandwidth.