Lightwave articles from April 2009

Lightwave archives from April 2009

Squeeze play.(Editorial)(Editorial)
April 1, 2009... The four executives arrayed before the audience on the "Bold Moves and the M&A Stories behind Them" panel at the Optical Society of America/ Lightwave Executive Forum last month earned their places thanks to the aggressiveness with which their...

Bend-insensitive multimode fiber improves enterprise networks: advances in research, development, engineering, and standards.(Technology: Advances in research, development, engineering, and standards)
April 1, 2009... Premises optical networks running on multimode fiber have always been significantly less expensive than singlemode fiber systems because they enable lower-cost 850-nm VCSEL transceivers. As a result, multimode fibers are quite popular in data...

Sierra Monolithics unveils 100G mux/demux chipset.(OPTICAL EQUIPMENT: Design Center)
April 1, 2009... Sierra Monolithics (www.monolithics.com) has unveiled what it touts as the first 100-Gbps multiplexer with clock multiplier unit (CMU) and demultiplexer with clock and data recovery (CDR). The Theta-100G devices are targeted at 100-Gbps...

Answers at hand for 100-Gbps test challenges.(TECH TRENDS: Technology)
April 1, 2009... Sales of the current generation of optical transport systems may have slowed in the face of the economic downturn, but interest in the next generation continues unabated. Research into cost reduction for 40-Gbps systems and initial development...

Optametra offers Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers.(TEST & MEASUREMENT: Resource Center)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Optametra (www.optametra.com) has announced what it asserts are the first available instruments for testing coherent transmission systems in real time. Optametra's OM4005 and OM4006 Coherent Lightwave Signal...

Metro Ethernet over GPON enhances business services.(Applications: Innovative component, subsystem, system, and network design examples and alternatives)
April 1, 2009... The reign of the dedicated T1 line into businesses is slowly fading away, replaced by the superior capacity and flexibility of new Ethernet technologies that can now provide comparable reliability. At the same time, new high-capacity transport...

GPON market share race heats up.(FTTX: Resource Center)
April 1, 2009... Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) says in the 4Q08 edition of its PON and FTTH Equipment and Subscribers report that Alcatel-Lucent's domination of the GPON space has begun to erode. "The PON vendor landscape got interesting in the...

Broadband forum: we're more than DSL.(CASE BY CASE: Applications)
April 1, 2009... After starting life as the DSL Forum, the Broadband Forum www.broadband-forum.org) adopted its current moniker last summer. And the group wants the fiber-optic communications community to know that the new name represents much more than a...

Africa, Middle East see boost in submarine capacity: opportunities, market intelligence, and forecasts to improve your bottom line.(Industry: Opportunities, market intelligence, and forecasts to improve your bottom line)
April 1, 2009... A wave of major submarine cable systems linking Asia, Africa, and Europe will enter service in 2009 and 2010, reflecting the new strategies of incumbents and the expansion of alternative carriers in the three regions. The systems will provide...

FTTE battles for enterprise/SAN acceptance.(STRATEGY AND ANALYSIS: Industry)
April 1, 2009... Just as fiber required several interim architectural steps before carriers seriously considered using it to connect homes, the technology has crept closer to enterprise desktops and servers one implementation stage at a time. Only the most...