Lightwave articles from February 2002

Lightwave archives from February 2002

Free-space optics restores communications after Sept. 11. (Applications).
February 1, 2002... Within a few blocks of Sept. 11's ground zero, on and near Centre Street, sit eight buildings of the Manhattan Courthouse system, a division of the New York state Unified Court System. The Sept. 11 attacks severely damaged segments of the...

Utilities pursue Latin America's emerging telecom market. (Trends).
February 1, 2002... Despite the slowdown of the world's economy, a growing number of energy and gas companies in Latin America are trying to use their existing infrastructures and rights-of-way to develop fiber-optic networks for telecommunications services,...

Rural Washington county pioneers optical broadband services. (Applications).
February 1, 2002... A consumer-owned utility is leading the way in providing residential customers the latest in optical broadband services. While service providers in more populated areas of the United States may take years to provide services like high-speed...

OMNInet tests emerging technologies, high-speed apps. (Technology).
February 1, 2002... Nortel Networks (Brampton, Ontario), SBC Communications Inc. (San Antonio, TX) and its subsidiary SBC Ameritech, and Northwestern University (Chicago) recently unveiled a collaborative experimental network used to test and validate emerging...

Cisco Systems Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose) will supply additional ONS 15454 Metro Optical Transport Platforms to Williams Communications for installation in the carrier's on-net metro-access networks. Williams Communications currently offers on-net local...

Tellabs will acquire Ocular Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Tellabs (Naperville, IL) will acquire Ocular Networks--provider of next-generation optical solutions for the metropolitan edge--for roughly $355 million in cash and options. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the first quarter of...

Broadband cable operator Cox Communications Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Broadband cable operator Cox Communications Inc. (Atlanta) will deploy hundreds of Riverstone Network Inc.'s (Santa Clara, CA) RS family metropolitan routers throughout all 28 of its U.S. cable systems as part of an extensive program to...

Cable & Wireless. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Cable & Wireless (Vienna, VA) has activated transatlantic OC-192 links using MPLS technology to connect Washington, DC, and New York with London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. The activation enables a business-quality Internet...

Enterprise-class software developer VPIsystems has entered into an alliance with Telcordia Technologies Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Enterprise-class software developer VPIsystems (Holmdel, NJ) has entered into an alliance with Telcordia Technologies Inc. (Morristown, NJ), a provider of operations support systems, that will yield a new suite of flow-through tools from...

Bandwidth9 Inc. has entered a joint development agreement with Metro-Optix. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Bandwidth9 Inc. (Fremont, CA) has entered a joint development agreement with Metro-Optix (Santa Clara, CA, and Allen, TX) to integrate its MetroFlex tunable transmitter into the Metro-Optix City Stream bandwidth management platform. The...

Cypress Semiconductor. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Cypress Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) has announced working prototypes of an internally developed parallel optical transceiver module. The resulting technologies will be used to develop next-generation optical transceiver and transponder...

NanoOpto Corp. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Startup NanoOpto Corp. (Somerset, NJ) has received $16 million in Series A funding to produce "subwavelength optical elements" that it claims will pack multiple functions into devices of extremely small size. NanoOptics will base its...

NEC Corp. and Wavesplitter Technologies Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and Wavesplitter Technologies Inc. (Fremont, CA) have entered into a joint sales and marketing agreement for active fiber-optic components and modules. Per the agreement, Wavesplitter will market and sell the NEC active...

Centerpoint Broadband Technologies Inc. has deployed and integrated its Celerity CP 3200 (formerly the Zaffire Z3000) DWDM equipment to carry high-speed data traffic between FLAG Telecom. (Industry Update).
February 1, 2002... * Centerpoint Broadband Technologies Inc. (San Jose, CA) has deployed and integrated its Celerity CP 3200 (formerly the Zaffire Z3000) DWDM equipment to carry high-speed data traffic between FLAG Telecom's New York, London, and Paris points of...

US Signal has selected Cisco Systems Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * US Signal (Grand Rapids, MI) has selected Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) as its exclusive provider of optical-networking equipment to light its established 2,500-mi dark fiber network. US Signal will deploy Cisco's ONS 15454 Metro Optical...

Looking Glass Networks has selected DWDM equipment from Sorrento Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Looking Glass Networks (Oak Brook, IL) has selected DWDM equipment from Sorrento Networks (San Diego) for deployment in its Washington, DC, fiber-optic network. Looking Glass has purchased Sorrento's GigaMux DWDM optical transport platform,...

Marconi plc has signed a five-year, $80-million networking supply agreement with Grande Communications. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Marconi plc (Pittsburgh) has signed a five-year, $80-million networking supply agreement with Grande Communications, a Texas-based broadband service provider. Marconi's DISC*S and Deep Fiber HFC systems will bring optical-fiber connectivity...

ADC Telecommunications Inc. has entered into a supplier agreement with BellSouth Corp. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * ADC Telecommunications Inc. (Minneapolis) has entered into a supplier agreement with BellSouth Corp. (Atlanta) in which ADC will provide BellSouth with an array of products ranging from digital signal crossconnects, optical crossconnects, and...

Automation Tooling Systems Inc. and EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Automation Tooling Systems Inc. (ATS--Ontario) and EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. (Quebec City) have reached a strategic alliance agreement to integrate EXFO's automated manufacturing subsystems and test systems into ATS's turnkey...

Telseon. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Metropolitan optical-network provider Telseon (Denver) has launched the nationwide Telseon Channel Program to better enable its customers to navigate the metro on the Telseon network and bundle value-added services. The program includes four...

Math Associates Inc. has changed its name to Liteway Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Math Associates Inc. (Hicksville, NY) has changed its name to Liteway Inc. The company will continue to manufacture and sell fiber-optic transmission systems designed to convey baseband video, audio, RS-232/-422/-485 data, IRIG time codes,...

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. (Richardson, TX) has launched a product renaming initiative designed to simplify customer inventory management and product identification and better position the products in the future. Fujitsu's range of...

Trimac Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Trimac Networks (North Brunswick, NJ) has announced its intention to develop and market integrated 10- and 40-Gbit/sec transceivers with up to 10 components in a single module. Incorporated in August 2001, Trimac expects to begin launching...

Internet Photonics Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Optical Ethernet startup Internet Photonics Inc. (Shrewsbury, NJ, and Marlborough, MA) has received $31 million in first-round funding, led by the Sprout Group. The company's founding team hails from Bell Labs, which supplied equipment,...

XO Communications Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * XO Communications Inc.'s (Reston, VA) board of directors has approved a preliminary agreement with Forstmann Little and Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V., pursuant to which XO will receive an investment of $400 million from each company in...

RateXchange Corp. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * RateXchange Corp. (San Francisco) has completed a $3.25-million private placement financing, representing a 30% over-subscription from the original $2.5 million sought. Participants included institutional investors Morgens Waterfall Vintiadis...

kSARIA Corp. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * kSARIA Corp. (Wilmington, MA) has raised $20 million in second-round venture funding, led by a new investor, Advent International of Boston, which was joined by all of kSARIA's first-round institutional investors: North Bridge Venture...

Sabeus Photonics Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Optical-component startup Sabeus Photonics Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) has received an additional $16 million in financing, led by TL Ventures with additional funding from Digital Coast Ventures, CSFB Ventures, and first-round funding leader...

Everest Broadband Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Everest Broadband Networks (Fort Lee, NJ) has completed its fourth round of financing with existing investors Pequot Capital Management and Exelon Capital Partners, bringing its total capitalization to $88 million. Everest provides high-speed...

Yipes Communications Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Yipes Communications Inc. (San Francisco) is currently delivering scalable Ethernet services to Wolverine Trading LP's offices in Chicago and San Francisco, with plans to add locations in New York and Philadelphia. The equity trading firm is...

Level 3 Communications Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Level 3 Communications Inc. (Broomfield, CO) has become the primary provider of broadband services for Sony Pictures Digitial Entertainment's (SPDE) Screenblast, an entertainment offering aimed at consumers with broadband Internet...

Internet provider Merit Networks has selected Alidian Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Michigan-based Internet provider Merit Networks has selected Alidian Networks' (San Jose, CA) OSN 4200 systems to upgrade its backbone transport network. The OSN 4200s will be configured as single-wavelength systems, each providing 2.5...

Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. will provide metropolitan fiber to RealNetworks Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. (MFN--New York) will provide metropolitan fiber to RealNetworks Inc., supporting the company's real.com and realnetworks.com Websites. Per the multiyear agreement, MFN will lease unshared, unmetered bandwidth to...

Integrated communications provider Choice One Communications has activated its intracity fiber ring in Buffalo, NY, recently acquired from FiberTech Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Integrated communications provider Choice One Communications (Rochester, NY) has activated its intracity fiber ring in Buffalo, NY, recently acquired from FiberTech Networks (Rochester). The Buffalo ring is the third to be activated through...

Telecommunications Industry Association. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA--Arlington, VA) has published a new standard, "FOCIS-5--Fiber Optic Connector Intermateability Standard-- Type MPO," TIA/EIA-604-5-A. The document is a revision of TIA/EIA-604-5. FOCIS-5...

Colibrys SA and Coventor Inc. (Industry Update).
February 1, 2002... * Colibrys SA (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Coventor Inc. (Cary, NC) have entered into joint development and preferred manufacturing partnership agreements for the development of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The first demonstrations of...

Optical interconnect company Schott Optovance Inc. has partnered with VCSEL developer ULM Photonics. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Optical interconnect company Schott Optovance inc. (Southbridge, MA) has partnered with VCSEL developer ULM Photonics (Ulm, Germany) to drive the deployment of high-density VCSEL arrays. Schott Optovance is the lead investor of ULM Photonics...

GigaTera Inc. developer of components for next-generation optical networks. (Industry Update).
February 1, 2002... * GigaTera Inc. (Zurich), developer of components for next-generation optical networks, has received an investment of $2 million in venture financing from Cypress Semiconductor and its wholly owned subsidiary, Silicon Light Machines, both based...

Maple Optical Systems. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Maple Optical Systems (San Jose, CA) has opened a software design facility in Nottingham, UK, that expands the company's European operations. The facility will develop SDH software that enables European carriers to integrate Maple's...

Alcatel. (Industry Update).
February 1, 2002... * Alcatel (Paris) has successfully completed third-party multivendor interoperability testing of MPLS on the Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform and the Alcatel 7411 Broadband Access Server. The multiprotocol platform demonstrated...

Acesa Telecom will deploy nearly 8,000 fiber-km of Corning Inc. (Industry Update).
February 1, 2002... * Acesa Telecom will deploy nearly 8,000 fiber-km of Corning Inc.'s (Corning, NY) LEAF optical fiber for its 250-km lberian network overbuild, extending from Zaragoza to the Mediterranean Coast. The project is scheduled to begin in 2002 and,...

Optoelectronics company Intense Photonics has announced a strategic partnership with III-V wafer specialist IQE. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Optoelectronics company Intense Photonics (High Blantyre, UK) has announced a strategic partnership with Ill-V wafer specialist IQE (Cardiff, UK). The partnership involves the design, modeling, and growth of complex, compound semiconductor...

Song Networks Holding AB will purchase the international fiber network from the bankruptcy estate of Enitel of Norway. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Song Networks Holding AB (Stockholm) will purchase the international fiber network from the bankruptcy estate of Enitel of Norway. The network has a current capacity of 20 Gbits/sec but can be increased to 160 Gbits/sec using existing...

Network-management software provider OPNET Technologies Inc. has fully acquired WDM NetDesign B.V.B.A. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Network-management software provider OPNET Technologies Inc. (Bethesda, MD) has fully acquired WDM NetDesign B.V.B.A., a Ghent, Belgium-based software company with expertise in optical-network design. The new entity, OPNET Technologies...

Alcatel has demonstrated transmission of 125 WDM data channels. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Alcatel (Paris) has demonstrated transmission of 125 WDM data channels at a rate of 40 Gbits/sec--representing a total capacity of 5 Tbits/sec-over 1,500 km of fiber. Transmission was achieved using Alcatel's dual-stage hybrid erbium/-Raman...

Fiber-optic component manufacturer Richco Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with Miniflex Ltd. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Fiber-optic component manufacturer Richco Inc. (Chicago) has signed a licensing agreement with Miniflex Ltd. (Suffolk, UK) that gives Richco exclusivity to manufacture and sell optical fiber bend-limiting tubing, a patented tubing that...

LaserComm completed system-level optical transmission testing of its broadband Hi-Mode Dispersion Management Device (DMD) at China's Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (WRI). (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * LaserComm (Plano, TX) completed system-level optical transmission testing of its broadband Hi-Mode Dispersion Management Device (DMD) at China's Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (WRI). WRI reports that in all tests,...

Appian Communications Inc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Appian Communications Inc. (Acton, MA) has received a multimillion-dollar order for its Optical Services Activation Platform and Appian Vista Services and Element Manager from NTT Communications (Tokyo). The systems will be used to enhance...

Alcatel has been awarded a $110-million contract from Chunghwa Telecom. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Alcatel (Paris) has been awarded a $110-million contract from Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan's incumbent telecommunications operator, to provide CHT with a nationwide network based on SDH equipment. The contract marks the first time a...

Global telecommunications group Cable and Wireless plc. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Global telecommunications group Cable and Wireless plc (Vienna, VA) has agreed, through its subsidiary, Cable & Wireless IDC, to acquire Tokyo-based PSINet Japan Inc. The companies have signed a share purchase agreement to acquire the entire...

Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) has been issued a U.S. patent covering a new technique developed by the company to improve the use of Raman amplifiers for WDM transmission systems. The technique is called Wavelength Division Multiplexed...

NTT Communications has successfully turned up commercial services on its nationwide network using Sycamore Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * NTT Communications (Tokyo) has successfully turned up commercial services on its nationwide network using Sycamore Networks' (Chelmsford, MA) SN 3000 and SN 16000 intelligent optical switches. The NTT network is Japan's first nationwide...

PowerComm Corp., a subsidiary of KEPCO. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * PowerComm Corp., a subsidiary of KEPCO, Korea's National Electric Power Corp., will deploy over 1,000 advanced service-creation routers from Riverstone Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, CA). PowerComm will deploy interlinked RS 38000 aggregation...

BSES Telecom, a subsidiary of power and transmission company BSES Ltd. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * BSES Telecom, a subsidiary of power and transmission company BSES Ltd. (New Delhi) has selected Juniper Networks Inc.'s (Sunnyvale, CA) M160 and M20 Internet routers for its MAN in Mumbai, India. Juniper will supply routers and...

Lightscape Networks. (Industry Update).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Lightscape Networks (Petah Tikva, Israel, and Herndon, VA) has won a global contract to supply the XDM flagship optical-networking platform and a full suite of professional support services to Sweden's Telia International Carrier. The project...

There's a kind of hush. (Editorial).(fiber-optic market)(Editorial)
February 1, 2002... It's the beginning of January as I write this, and it's quiet-very quiet-in the optical communications space. It's as if the industry, paddling furiously through the flood of bad news in 2001, has finally reached the shore of 2002 and collapsed...

FCC chairman's subtle telecom bias: On the subject of FTTH, Powell's loose lips could be sinking fiber's ship. (Regulation & Policy).
February 1, 2002... Several months ago, FCC chairman Michael Powell made an offhand remark about fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure. The remark, when placed in the larger context of telecom policy and the chairman's actions, shows that he has a nearly hidden...

Little-known fiber-optic standard bears watching: Developed by electrical contractors, NECA/FOA-301 could have the force of law in several municipalities. (Premises Networks).
February 1, 2002... Mast technical people involved in premises networking must feel like they're up to their ears in cabling standards. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA--www.tiaonline.org), for instance, publishes standards on commercial-building...

Corporate philosophy key to recovery: Finisar should have one of the strongest rates of growth and may have one of the most enduring recoveries. (Wall Street & Finance).
February 1, 2002... For several months, we have been mentioning Finisar as one of our top investment ideas in the optical communications sector. The stock has hardly been a safe haven over that time frame, prompting many investors to ask us why we have been so...

After the fall: An analysis of the 2001 downturn in fiber-optic cable demand doen't forecast good news this year. (Analyst Corner).
February 1, 2002... The worldwide market for optical-fiber cable experienced a rapid downturn in mid-2001. Following 48% year-on-year growth from 1999 to 2000 in the amount of cabled fiber installed worldwide, installments dropped by 10% in 2001. Two main factors...

ITU-T addresses OTN. (Standards Watch).
February 1, 2002... At last October's meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Study Group 15 in Geneva, Working Party 3/15, chaired by Steve Trowbridge of Lucent Technologies, reached consent on several key Recommendations for the Optical...

Furukawa restructures Lucent's 'crown jewel'. (Trends).(into OFS BrightWave and OFS Fitel)
February 1, 2002... Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) acquired Lucent Technologies' Optical Fiber Solutions (OFS--Norcross, GA) division in November, broadening its technology portfolio, distribution channels, and manufacturing capacities. Despite the strengths...

Optical startups' silence may be competitive advantage. (Trends).
February 1, 2002... Since the optical telecommunications market began its rather sharp plummet, news of technology innovation appears to have declined as well. However, what may appear to be a slowdown in development is more likely a by-product of optical vendors...

Jordan Telecom upgrades SDH backbone network. (Trends).
February 1, 2002... In one of the fastest-growing markets in the Middle East, the national operator, Jordan Telecom, has invested several million dollars to boost its network capacity significantly with a broadband SDH network expansion. These rejuvenated network...

'Pain relief' is the new mantra for optical test and measurement equipment vendors. (Special Reports: Test, Measurement, and Management).
February 1, 2002... With the deployment of 40-Gbit/sec systems pushed back 18-24 months, optical test equipment vendors focus on improving existing devices for near-term applications. In times of economic prosperity, new car sales generally soar. But when the...

Polarization-OTDR: Identifying high-PMD sections along installed fibers; A new technique for detecting high PMD allows network operators to maximize the reuse of existing physical plant. (Special Reports: Test and Measurement).
February 1, 2002... Polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) is a serious limitation in modern optical communications systems, particularly with the advent of 10-Gbit/sec and 40-Gbit/sec systems. That, coupled with the use of optical amplifiers to increase the distance...

Need for accurate measurements amplified as wavelengths increase: An influx of high-power optics is driving the push for optical spectrum analyzers with more powerful performance. (Special Reports: Test and Measurement).
February 1, 2002... Today, DWDM is widely deployed, but the push toward even more channels and alternative types of broadband optical amplification is stretching the boundaries of optical fiber. Additional channels in the C-band (1530-1565 nm) and L-band...

New test solutions and methods take aim at costs of manufacturing: The key to reducing the cost of production test is the selection of flexible, integrated, throughput-optimized optical test equipment. (Special Reports: Test and Measurement).
February 1, 2002... In a market that demands reductions in equipment prices, vendors have placed the price tag of test under intense scrutiny. Industry experts advise that testing can account for one-third of an optical product's total cost of production. Clearly,...

InGaAs detector arrays for monitoring the optical network. (Special Reports: Test and Measurement).
February 1, 2002... Between 1280 and 1620 nm, indium gallium arsenide is the material system of choice to fabricate low-noise and high quantum efficiency detector arrays for optical monitoring. The ideal optical communications network is transparent, allowing...

Intelligent optical transport yields better profits. (Special Reports: Test and Measurement).
February 1, 2002... As dumb pipes and reactive management give way to intelligent optical transport and preemptive management, metro service providers will reap the benefits of profitable networks. DWDM has proven ideal for long-haul communications. Rather...

ONM sheds light on optical networks: Optical networks present new challenges and opportunities to network management. (Special Reports: Test and Measurement).(optical network management)
February 1, 2002... Service providers have been at the center of the telecommunications storm for the last few years. While the recent challenge was to adopt and deploy the fastest, highest-bandwidth optical systems available as quickly as possible and help drive...

Total performance monitoring solution guarantees network health. (Special Reports: Test and Measurement).
February 1, 2002... Today's measurement techniques can detect, locate, and isolate any faults in optical components critical to the metro core network. Traditionally, monitoring the performance of metropolitan networks has been through the examination of SONET...

Israeli entrepreneurs go optical: The market downturn hasn't stopped several Israeli startups from chasing the optical dream. (Fiber in Israel).
February 1, 2002... When 16-year old Doron Nevo babysat for Rami Oron, he could never have imagined it would lead to something bigger. Yet 30 years later, Nevo, Oron (now Dr. Oron), and Oron's father, Dr. Moshe Oron, are chumming around at a company called...

Incumbents face regulatory, economic pressures: As network expansion slows, lower-cost-per-bit technologies like giga bit ethernet emerge as the new service drivers. (New Local-Exchange Landscape).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Competitive local-exchange carriers (CLECs) were hit hard by the U.S. economic downturn, prompting some analysts to question whether incumbent local-exchange carriers (ILECs) might be next--further weakening the besieged optical transport...

Using existing infrastructure, PON can expand revenues: Broadband passive optical networking enables carriers to address the impending telecom explosion in the broadband access market. (Passive Optical Network).
February 1, 2002... In the current economic climate, plans to upgrade or replace existing networks are being shelved. Smart companies will take advantage of this lull to overhaul their networks, so when the economy heats up, they will be best positioned to exploit...

Design software shifts from innovation to optimization. (Tech Trends).
February 1, 2002... The optical design software industry has undergone a dramatic shift over the past six to 12 months, precipitated by difficult market conditions. What was once an industry driven by innovation is now an industry driven by pragmatism and...

S-band enhancements. (Systems and Subsystems).
February 1, 2002... The company has announced advancements for S-band amplification in a benchtop instrument using thulium-doped fluoride fiber pumped by laser diodes at 1055 nm. Gain has been demonstrated at >20 dB in the 1480-1485-nm range with a noise figure of...

Telephone and data multiplexer. (Systems and Subsystems).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Data-Talker is a standalone four- to eight-channel telephone and data fiber-optic multiplexer for linking or extending data and telephone lines in campus networks. Distances up to 80 km are supported over singlemode fiber, 4 km over...

Optical fiber. (Components).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The BDF-EP fibers are specifically designed for increasing inscription efficiency of Bragg gratings for pump laser stabilization. The two fibers match the characteristics of standard fiber used for (Components) pigtailing but with the...

Connectors and adapters. (Components).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... These LC/APC connectors and adapters are designed for small-form-factor applications. The 8[degrees] LC/APC connectors are fully intermateable with current industry LC/APC products and deliver long-term stability under a range of application...

Parallel optical link module. (Components).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The second generation of the company's 12-channel parallel optical link (PAROLI) features a ball grid array connector that allows the module to be easily plugged onto a PCB. Dubbed the PAROLI 2, the module transports more than 30 Gbits of data...

Fiber termination panel. (Installation).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A high-density enhancement to the SMART platform of fiber termination panels and frames, the F19 termination products deliver a high fiber-optic port count in a 19-inch chassis size. Available in terminate-only configurations, high-density...

Power-meter option. (Test Equipment).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The fully integrated power-meter option on the FTB-100 field-testing platform can provide field technicians with insertion-loss measurements along with basic OTDR testing. The FTB-100 platform tests LANs, WANs, and metro/access edge networks...

Conformance test solution. (Test Equipment).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The automated Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) RSVP protocol conformance test suite, available on the Router Tester platform, provides network equipment manufacturers with a comprehensive series of tests to verify that each GMPLS function meets the...