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• Transpacific in-transit encryption trial achieves 100Gbps

  Engineers from Telstra, Ericsson and Ciena have demonstrated the ability to encrypt data while in transit between Los Angeles and Melbourne at 100Gbps.

• How 'survivor' Ciena is using video to change its culture

  Ciena has been in business for 25 years. Not all of them have been easy.

• Enterprise disaggregation is inevitable

  Back in March, the issue was raised whether disaggregation -- decoupling network software from hardware for choice and flexibility -- could play in the enterprise as well as the service provider realm.

• Here comes bare metal and NFV for the enterprise

  Two hardware vendors this week unveiled products to bring commodity switching and virtualization to enterprises through service providers.

• Forum created to push optical SDNs

  SDN start-up Vello Systems this week said it is forming an organization to promote open source and software-defined networking principles to optical enterprise networking.

• Ericsson and Ciena join forces on IP and optical networking

  Ericsson and Ciena have signed a global agreement to develop joint transport solutions for converged IP and optical networks that also use SDN (software-defined networking) features.

• Ciena, NRENs to test OpenFlow SDN WAN

  Ciena this week said it is partnering with a handful of research networks to test a multilayer, software-defined WAN.

• New specifications to ease delivery of carrier Ethernet services

  Service providers will be able to launch Ethernet services more quickly and make them work across other carriers more easily with a new set of standards for carrier Ethernet equipment, backers of the specifications say.

• Wall Street Beat: Economy weighs on chip, PC sector

  After several days of gains, tech stocks dropped Thursday as markets declined on disappointing news from Europe, where government officials are meeting to try to solve the sovereign debt crisis afflicting several countries in the euro area.

• Wall Street Beat: IT gets hit in market slump

  Major U.S. stock markets on Friday closed for a sixth straight week of losses, the worst weekly losing streak since the third quarter of 2002, during the dot-com bust.

• Ciena's loss deepens after Nortel metro Ethernet acquisition

  Ciena plunged deeper into the red following its acquisition of Nortel Networks' metro Ethernet business, with sales of its legacy products stagnating, it reported Wednesday.

• Ciena announces senior management team amid APAC push

  Ciena Corporation has announced the appointment of Anthony Mclachlan to the role of vice-president and David McDermott to the role of general manager as the networking company looks to expand is Asia-Pacific operations.

• Nortel in '09: Dismantling of a tech stalwart

  This year saw the slow, painful dismantling of Nortel. Its gradual exit from the tech scene played out the entire year, as each month brought news of more layoffs, markdowns or sell-offs.

• Ciena will pay $US769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business

  Ciena will pay US$769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two companies said on Monday.