Cisco Systems is discontinuing an optical router that it acquired from its 1999 purchase of Monterey Networks, part of the company's initial foray into the market. Cisco executives on Wednesday blamed ...

Cisco will acquire Lightwire, a specialist in advanced optical interconnect technology designed for high-speed networking uses. Cisco plans to use the technology in its optical networking portfolio to ...

SoftBank is teaming with Cisco to deploy optical technologies to boost network capacity while reducing energy consumption. The deployment, set to take place across metro networks in Japan, will see ...

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

Cisco Systems, Fujitsu and operator KDDI recently turned on a metro network in Japan that uses an open architecture combining the IP layer and optical transmission layer to smooth operations and ...

Cisco Systems CSCO recently announced the launch of new products and solutions in its Routed Optical Networking solution business to aid customers in saving up to 45% in power and 70% in real estate ...

Solectron Corp., the No. 1 contract electronics manufacturer, said Tuesday that it had reached a deal to take over an optical equipment plant from Internet networking giant Cisco Systems Inc.

The networking giant revealed its intent to buy California-based Sedona Systems for its NetFusion platform, which will help Cisco with 5G network slicing, routed optical networking, and disaggregation ...

With long-haul optical networking in a parlous state, Cisco is launching products for the parts of the market where it sees the strongest future: a multi-service SDH platform and a Metro DWDM switch ...