Lightwave articles from August 2004

Lightwave archives from August 2004

Carriers eye tunable lasers and ROADMs.(Applications)(Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer)
August 1, 2004... British Telecom (BT--London)recently announced its decision to migrate its multiple existing networks to a single converged multiservice IP-based network, dubbed the 21st Century Network. AT&T (Bedminster, NJ) is moving ahead with a similar...

PON chip makers await competition.(Industry)
August 1, 2004... The growing interest in passive optical networks (PONs) among systems vendors has caught the attention of IC providers. Five companies currently provide standard chips, with others expected to join the hunt for design wins. On the ATM...

IC toolkit for optical-link improvement.(Technology)(integrated circuit)
August 1, 2004... The recent emergence of electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) for single-mode and multimode fiber has generated a lot of excitement in the communications industry and is arguably one of the more fashionable coffee-room topics among system...

Alcatel (Dallas) signed a multimillion-dollar contract to provide EATEL with a complete fiber to the premises (FTTP) network based on the vendor's Alcatel 7340 platform to deliver a full range of voice and data communications services in Louisiana.(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Alcatel (Dallas) signed a multimillion-dollar contract to provide EATEL with a complete fiber to the premises (FTTP) network based on the vendor's Alcatel 7340 platform to deliver a full range of voice and data communications services in...

Solstar (Edinburg, TX), provider of entertainment and communications services, chose Allied Telesyn (Bothell, WA) to help deliver triple-play services to 15,000 residential customers in southern Texas using an Ethernet-based fiber to the home network.(North America)(Solstar)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Solstar (Edinburg, TX), provider of entertainment and communications services, chose Allied Telesyn (Bothell, WA) to help deliver triple-play services to 15,000 residential customers in southern Texas using an Ethernet-based fiber to the home...

Palmetto Bluff, a 20,000-acre master-planned community in Bluffton, SC, created a "data on demand" telecommunications service using Ethernet passive-optical-network equipment from Alloptic (Livermore, CA).(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Palmetto Bluff, a 20,000-acre master-planned community in Bluffton, SC, created a "data on demand" telecommunications service using Ethernet passive-optical-network equipment from Alloptic (Livermore, CA). Hargray Communications Group, the...

Cisco Systems.(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Nationwide, provider of diversified insurance and financial services to customers across the United States, built a core optical network at its Columbus, OH, headquarters based on the Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) ONS 15454 multiservice...

Digital Lightwave (Clearwater, FL) announced that Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) selected the NIC Plus in support of next-generation network testing needs.(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Digital Lightwave (Clearwater, FL) announced that Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) selected the NIC Plus in support of next-generation network testing needs. Cisco has purchased Digital Lightwave products over a six-year span, most recently...

White Rock Networks (Richardson, TX) signed a supply agreement with Cox Communications (Atlanta).(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... White Rock Networks (Richardson, TX) signed a supply agreement with Cox Communications (Atlanta) that calls for White Rock to deliver its VLX2020 SONET OC-48/192 transport platform to multiple Cox locations. Value of the agreement was not...

Vermont Telephone (Vtel--Springfield, VT), the largest independent telephone company in that state.(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Vermont Telephone (Vtel--Springfield, VT), the largest independent telephone company in that state,chose the ECI Telecom (Petah Tikva, Israel) XDM metro and regional converged optical-network system for WDM, SONET, and Ethernet. The new...

Fujitsu Network Communications (Richardson, TX) targeted the advanced packet-network market with a new network-based service delivery initiative.(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Fujitsu Network Communications (Richardson, TX) targeted the advanced packet-network market with a new network-based service delivery initiative. Fujitsu has partnered with Attica (Santa Clara, CA) and CoSine Communications (Redwood City, CA)...

SBC Communications (San Antonio, TX) defined a strategy to drive fiber deeper into its networks to power high-speed IP-based local connections.(Hot Pick)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... SBC Communications (San Antonio, TX) defined a strategy to drive fiber deeper into its networks to power high-speed IP-based local connections. Pending "final clarity' on applicable regulatory requirements and successful completion of...

CommScope (Hickory, NC) transferred all of its equity ownership interest in OFS BrightWave to Furukawa Electric (Tokyo) in exchange for 7,656.900 shares of CommScope common stock owned by Furukawa.(update)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... CommScope (Hickory, NC) transferred all of its equity ownership interest in OFS BrightWave to Furukawa Electric (Tokyo) in exchange for 7,656.900 shares of CommScope common stock owned by Furukawa. CommScope intends to hold these shares as...

Gould Electronics (Eastlake, OH) sold its fiber optics unit to Applied Fiber (Albany, GA).(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Gould Electronics (Eastlake, OH) sold its fiber optics unit to Applied Fiber (Albany, GA). Based in Millersville, MD, Gould Fiber Optics produces fiber-optic couplers with value-added assemblies. Terms of the transaction, which closed April 30,...

Mahi Networks (Petaluma, CA) closed $70 million in new funding, which enables the company to expand manufacturing and support operations for continuing deployments of its products.(North America)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Mahi Networks (Petaluma, CA) closed $70 million in new funding, which enables the company to expand manufacturing and support operations for continuing deployments of its products. This funding brings the total capital raised by the company to...

Bookham Technology (Oxfordshire, UK) plans to change its corporate domicile to the United States.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Bookham Technology (Oxfordshire, UK) plans to change its corporate domicile to the United States. The change is to be effected by a UK court-approved scheme of arrangement, under which every 10 existing Bookham ordinary shares will be exchanged...

ECI Telecom (Petah Tikva, Israel) will deploy fiber to the premises equipment as part of British Telecom's (BT--London) "21st Century Network" initiative.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... ECI Telecom (Petah Tikva, Israel) will deploy fiber to the premises equipment as part of British Telecom's (BT--London) "21st Century Network" initiative. The trial is one of the first 21st Century Network initiatives that BT will deploy and...

Ibsen Photonics.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Ibsen Photonics (Copenhagen), supplier of holographic phase masks, transmission diffraction gratings, and DWDM monitors based on diffraction gratings, received U.S. Patent #6,693,701, titled "Method and Apparatus for Diffractive Transfer of...

Lumentis (Stockholm), provider of service-oriented optical transmission equipment, announced additional funding of $9 million in its third and final round, bringing the total funding of the company to $38 million.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Lumentis (Stockholm), provider of service-oriented optical transmission equipment, announced additional funding of $9 million in its third and final round, bringing the total funding of the company to $38 million. The London-based Chandaria...

Transmode Systems (Stockholm) and Song Networks, a pan-Nordic network operator and service provider, announced an agreement covering the supply of WDM systems to support Song's network optimization across all its territories.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Transmode Systems (Stockholm) and Song Networks, a pan-Nordic network operator and service provider, announced an agreement covering the supply of WDM systems to support Song's network optimization across all its territories. Under terms of the...

ADVA Optical Networking (Martinsried, Germany, and Mahwah, NJ) and Siemens (Munich) announced that EVN, an Austrian utility and energy service provider.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... ADVA Optical Networking (Martinsried, Germany, and Mahwah, NJ) and Siemens (Munich) announced that EVN, an Austrian utility and energy service provider, deployed a combination of ADVA Fiber Service Platforms (FSPs) to begin offering its...

China Cable and Communication (Beijing), a China-based cable TV company, will acquire from Beijing Zhongminjing Technology Development a two-core 34,800-km fiber-optic backbone network covering 410 cities across China.(Asia)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... China Cable and Communication (Beijing), a China-based cable TV company, will acquire from Beijing Zhongminjing Technology Development a two-core 34,800-km fiber-optic backbone network covering 410 cities across China. The backbone network...

Tokyo-based Hitachi and NEC will join forces in the business of backbone reuters/switches for the carrier, government and public sector, and large-enterprise markets.(Asia)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Tokyo-based Hitachi and NEC will join forces in the business of backbone reuters/switches for the carrier, government and public sector, and large-enterprise markets. The two companies will establish a joint-venture company in October that will...

Eudyna Devices (Yokohama), Mitsubishi Electric (Tokyo), Oki Electric Industry (Tokyo), Opnext (Eatontown, NJ), and Sumitomo Electric Industries (Tokyo) released common specifications for optical devices based on a 10-Gbit/sec Miniature Device Multisource Agreement (XMD-MSA).(Asia)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Eudyna Devices (Yokohama), Mitsubishi Electric (Tokyo), Oki Electric Industry (Tokyo), Opnext (Eatontown, N J), and Sumitomo Electric Industries (Tokyo) released common specifications for optical devices based on a 10-Gbit/sec Miniature Device...

No more excuses for holding back broadband investment.(Editorial)
August 1, 2004... For years, the RBOCs have complained that UNE-P regulations prevented them from investing in broadband infrastructure. Even when the Federal Communications Commission handed them a virtual monopoly on broadband optical infrastructure in the...

MEMS helps measure high-density wavelengths.(Focus on)(Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems)
August 1, 2004... With the increase in wavelength density and bit rates in WDM optical communications networks, quality of service (QoS) has become a critical issue. Conventional test instrumentation does not have the scan rate or a wide enough scan wavelength...

Metro Ethernet forum creates test paradigm.(Tech Trends)
August 1, 2004... At its quarterly meeting this month in Portland, OR, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) expects to put its first test specification to letter ballot; once approved, it should become official in 30 days. While the test specification represents a...

Ethernet services defined by the MEF.(Standards Watch)(Metro Ethernet Forum)
August 1, 2004... The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is a combination technical and marketing forum chartered with accelerating the adoption of optical Ethernet as the technology of choice in metro networks worldwide. The MEF's goal is to create implementation...

FIS training specialist.(Ask Bruno)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Q Are there any field-installable quick termination connectors that can withstand high temperatures? I need these for singlemode fibers and the connectors must also provide low back reflection. A 3M[TM] offers Ultra High Temperature Hot...

FTTH/P connector service kit.(Installation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... For fiber to the home and premises applications, the TransLab connector service kit incorporates all the necessary tools and consumables to repair damaged singlemode and multimode industry-standard connectors in field environments and return...

Low loss fusion splicer with PC.(Installation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The OptiSplice Premier fusion splicer (iLID) features very low field splice loss and includes a completely integrated, full-featured 6.4-inch touchscreen PC that is compatible with most off-the-shelf software and USB accessories. Users can send...

Crush-resistant pavement cable.(Components)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Designed for enterprise applications like metropolitan and campus sidewalks, roadways, and parking lots, the pavement cable can be used by multisystem operators to deploy fiber to commercial, residential, and small-to-medium businesses....

RBN's '4 x ANY' mini-MSPP enables services on demand.(Product Profile)
August 1, 2004... At SuperComm in Chicago, RBN (San Francisco) launched its RBNi GigaEdge 2330, a mini-multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) designed to give carriers the ability to provide services on demand. According to the company, its target...

Single-chip ADM access devices.(Components)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... For use in remotely deployed SONET/ SDH add/drop multiplexers and terminal multiplexers, the PM5337 ADM 622 and PM5338 ADM 622 PDH optical access devices enable system designers to build robust small-footprint carrier class equipment that...

High-speed monitor controller.(Test Equipment)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The high-speed hardware/firmware SurePath Monitor controller module embeds the monolithic indium phosphide-based optical power monitor directly into network elements. The controller allows easy integration of the monitor into modules and...

SAN Fibre Channel test module.(Test Equipment)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... For SAN installation, commissioning, and maintenance, the Packet Blazer FTB-8520 Fibre Channel (FC) test module--contained inside the FTB-400 universal test system--provides FC-0-, FC-1-, and FC-2-level testing capabilities, while supporting...

Strand-mount mux/demuxes.(Systems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The strand-mount multiplexers/demultiplexers are diffraction-grating-based, athermal products offering parallel optical demultiplexing, which results in low insertion loss, high channel count, and excellent channel-to-channel uniformity. They...

Higher-capacity broadband PON.(Systems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... With a higher-capacity switch fabric, network interfaces, and access interfaces, Release 2.0 of the 7340 "Fiber-to-the-User" (FTTU) broadband passive optical network (BPON) is optimized for growth in broadband/IP services and can aggregate and...

10-GbE long-reach transceivers.(Subsystems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... For high-bandwidth applications such as video on demand, the TOP 8080 10GBase-DWDM and TOP 5080 10GBase-ZR transceivers with a range of 80 km enable 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) as a transport alternative to SONET OC-192 long-haul links over...

XENPAK, XAUI-based 10-GbE, FC transponder.(Subsystems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... For 10-Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications, the XENPAK hot-pluggable, XAUI-based, MDIO-interface transponder uses uncooled DFB optics, while the system-side XAUI electrical interface supports transmission data over 20 inches of...

Driven-head high-speed optical polishers.(Design & Manufacturing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... For polishing photonic or semiconductor wafers/components in applications like lasers, IC production, and MEMS, the industrial-level DH600 and research-level DH300 driven-head high-speed optical polishing systems provide the impetus required...

Amplifier reliability is key to economical systems.(Focus on)
August 1, 2004... The optical-networking industry has endured many changes in the past few years, but the demand for high reliability in optical products has remained constant. The costs associated with failure of network elements such as amplifiers can be...

Virginia utility blazes triple-play trail.(Case by Case)
August 1, 2004... As the controversy continues in many states over whether it is legal for municipal electric utilities to provide retail or wholesale communications services, Bristol Virginia Utilities (BVU--Bristol, VA) has moved forward with its plan to offer...

Progress on the path to convergence.(Focus on)
August 1, 2004... The show floor at this year's SuperComm, held in an unusually sunny Chicago in mid-June, bustled with talk of multiservice technologies aimed at carriers looking for ways to profitably combine voice, data, and video services onto a common...

Declines in Internet traffic growth won't derail capex.(Analyst Corner)
August 1, 2004... The growth rate of Internet traffic in North America has slowed significantly over the past year. At face value, this data point suggests negative implications for telecom investment, since the excess capacity in backbone networks will take...

Calendar.(Industry)(Calendar)
August 1, 2004... August 11 ADC Fiber to the Premises Leadership Syposium. In Lake Ozark, MO, NY, by ADC. Also, Sept 15 in Dallas, Oct 20 in Fort Wayne, IN, and Oct 26 in Chattanooga, TN. Tel: 952-917-0231, fax: 952-917-0647, Website: www.adc.com. ...

The light side.
August 1, 2004... "Son, given the quality of fiber-optic transmissions, your mother and I feel communication would be improved if we installed you in our Albuquerque office."

Ongoing shift to enterprise seen lifting components above $1.5B.(Market Watch)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The market for optical and electronic transmission components will grow from just over $1 billion in 2003 to $1.6 billion in 2008, according to two new reports from industry analyst CIR (Charlottesville, VA). CIR's first report, "Optical...

Telecom to hit $1.8 trillion in '09.(Market Watch)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The global telecommunications market should return to historic growth patterns this year, contends a new report from Insight Research (Boonton, NJ). Worldwide telecom services revenue is expected to grow at an 8% CAGR between 2004 and...

Broadband providers eye MDUs.(Market Watch)
August 1, 2004... Multidwelling units (MDUs) represent an enormous current and future opportunity for broadband services, comprising more than one-third of the total households worldwide, reveals a new report from In-Stat/MDR (Scottsdale, AZ). While there will...