Nokia Highlights Advancing Connectivity for the AI Supercycle IntroductionNokia’s combined SReXperts and Wavelengths Americas event in San Diego made one point clear. IP and optical are now one architecture, and the AI supercycle is requiring them to make significant investments in their supply chain and manufacturing capabilities to meet customer… Read More »Nokia SReXperts and Wavelengths 2026
The AI traffic boom and Coherent Pluggables were the new themes at this year’s Nokia SRexperts / Wavelengths conference. Since Nokia completed its Infinera acquisition in February 2025, it has made leadership changes to reflect its increasing market presence and expanded product breadth. Notably, David Heard, the President of Network… Read More »Nokia Optical and Routing Conference Highlights
Following Nokia’s Acquisition of Infinera, Four Vendors Represent the Vast Majority of Revenues Incline Village, NV. May 20, 2025 — In a newly released report, 650 Group highlights that the 1Q25 Optical Transport Equipment market experienced a single-digit decline compared to year-ago revenues. The top five vendors in 1Q’25 included… Read More »Optical Transport Equipment Market Experienced Modest Year-Over-Year Decline in 1Q’25
On June 27, Nokia announced plans to acquire Optical Transport rival Infinera. The indicative bid was for $2.3B, representing a 37% premium to a six-month volume-weighted price. Additionally, Nokia plans to spin off its Submarine Networks business (which even today uses the historically French-domiciled Alcatel in its name) to a… Read More »Nokia’s Bid To Acquire Infinera May Drive Further Industry Changes
We attended two separate presentations made by Ciena last week and have reflected on the comments made by the company. In summary, Ciena advocated using both pluggables like ZR and ZR+ as well as high-performance optical transport systems (its main business) together to construct cost-effective networks. The mix and match… Read More »Our take On Ciena’s Pluggables Strategy
