Lightwave articles from January 2005

Lightwave archives from January 2005

Calls mount for revision of 1996 Telecom Act.(Industry)(United States Telecom Association)
January 1, 2005... The board of directors for the United States Telecom Association (USTA) in November unanimously endorsed guiding principles for U.S. lawmakers to consider when updating the country's tele-communications laws. The market has changed dramatically...

Proper planning can assure cost-effective fiber backbones.(Applications)
January 1, 2005... Users of LAN data services have come to expect continual advancements in network speeds. IT professionals also know to expect the price of a given generation of networking equipment to decline as time goes by. These developments have been...

Optimization of FTTH passive optical networks continues.(Technology)(fiber to the home)
January 1, 2005... After 25 years of being the future of access networks, fiber to the home (FTTH) is now being deployed on a large scale in the United States. For several years, the ever-increasing number of FTTH deployments has been driven mainly by...

ADC (Minneapolis) and EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering (Quebec City) formed an alliance to provide an integrated remote Ethernet test offering for service providers operating metro Ethernet networks.(North America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... ADC (Minneapolis) and EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering (Quebec City) formed an alliance to provide an integrated remote Ethernet test offering for service providers operating metro Ethernet networks. By combining ADC's new Ethernet Network...

Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) says several global carriers and research networks are now deploying and trialing the Cisco CRS-1 carrier routing system.(North America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) says several global carriers and research networks are now deploying and trialing the Cisco CRS-1 carrier routing system. Cisco customers Softbank BB (providers of "Yahoo! BB"), the National Institute of...

FiberNet Telecom Group (New York City), provider of managed network services, signed an agreement to acquire Con Edison Communications (CEC--New York City), a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, for about $37 million in cash.(North America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... FiberNet Telecom Group (New York City), provider of managed network services, signed an agreement to acquire Con Edison Communications (CEC--New York City), a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, for about $37 million in cash. The acquisition of...

K2 Optronics.(investment)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... K2 Optronics (Sunnyvale, CA), provider of lasers for the telecommunications, cable TV, RF, sensing, and test and measurement industries, secured $6.4 million as part of its first closure of a third round of venture capital financing. That...

Xtellus (Morris Plains, NJ), maker of optical modules and components for reconfigurable optical networks, has acquired the intellectual property assets of SpectraSwitch.(North America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Xtellus (Morris Plains, NJ), maker of optical modules and components for reconfigurable optical networks, has acquired the intellectual property assets of SpectraSwitch. SpectraSwitch raised more than $36 million and developed a line of optical...

ECI Telecom (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Chiaro Networks (Richardson, TX), developer of carrier class IP/MPLS routing platforms, entered into a strategic partnership.(Europe)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... ECI Telecom (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Chiaro Networks (Richardson, TX), developer of carrier class IP/MPLS routing platforms, entered into a strategic partnership. As Chiaro's partner, ECI will exclusively distribute Chiaro's Enstara IP/MPLS...

Polatis.(finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Polatis (Cambridge, UK), supplier of ultra-low-loss optical switches, completed its third round of funding. The $9.4-million financing round was funded by the existing investor group comprising 3i, Alta Berkeley, EonTech Ventures, and Prelude...

Transmode Systems.(finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Transmode Systems (Stockholm), supplier of optical-networking systems, completed a $15-million financing round aimed at accelerating the company's growth plans. Participating in the round were existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners, Pod...

JDS Uniphase (San Jose, CA) reached a strategic supply agreement with Fabrinet (San Francisco) to further consolidate manufacturing and streamline its supply chain.(Asia)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... JDS Uniphase (San Jose, CA) reached a strategic supply agreement with Fabrinet (San Francisco) to further consolidate manufacturing and streamline its supply chain. The agreement includes the sale to Fabrinet of JDS Uniphase's Singapore and...

ILX Lightwave (Bozeman, MT) and ETSC Technologies of China signed an agreement to establish a service center in Wuhan, China, to provide improved customer service for ILX Lightwave's instrumentation and test-system products.(Asia)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... ILX Lightwave (Bozeman, MT) and ETSC Technologies of China signed an agreement to establish a service center in Wuhan, China, to provide improved customer service for ILX Lightwave's instrumentation and test-system products. The service center...

CANARIE, a not-for-profit Canadian Internet corporation that facilitates the development and use of next generation research networks and the applications and services that run on them, selected Looking Glass Networks (Oak Brook, IL), a facilities-based provider of metropolitan data transport services, to provide dark fiber services.(Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... CANARIE, a not-for-profit Canadian Internet corporation that facilitates the development and use of next generation research networks and the applications and services that run on them, selected Looking Glass Networks (Oak Brook, IL), a...

TriQuint Semiconductor.(restructuring)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... TriQuint Semiconductor (Hillsboro, OR) repositioned its optoelectronics business strategy to focus on optical components, indium phosphide laser and detector chips, and optical subassemblies and technology. Part of the move includes...

Are you going to believe what you see or what I say?(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... This month's editorial comes to you on the eve of the year-end holidays. (I hope yours were all you could wish for.) Regardless of your religious faith--or lack thereof--the December holiday season is both busy and exciting, between shopping,...

Raman amplification extends CWDM's reach.(Crossband Wave Division Multiplex)
January 1, 2005... CWDM technology employs wider wavelength spacing and less expensive components than does long-haul DWDM. DWDM's narrower channel spacing makes the use of thermo-electric coolers to stabilize the laser emissions essential. On the other hand, the...

VoIP performance testing key for carriers.(Tech Trends)(voice over internet protocol)(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... Enterprises are embracing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology for its cost-cutting capabilities. The technology enables voice traffic to run over IP networks, thereby eliminating the need to pay for the telephone termination charges...

Measurement of Raman gain efficiency.(Standards Watch)
January 1, 2005... The International Electrotechnical Commission in 2003 published the first version of a guidance document for measuring Raman gain efficiency on all types of single mode optical fibers. This guidance document is technical report IEC TR 62324...

Passave unveils first programmable DBA engine.(Product Profile)(dynamic bandwidth allocation, Passave Technologies)
January 1, 2005... All PON architectures can benefit from a dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) engine. A PON is based on shared architecture; bandwidth is split between as many as 32 separate users. The DBA engine enables the service provider to adjust the...

Ultra-wide broadband light source.(Test Equipment)
January 1, 2005... The UWS-1000 1.2-2-pm ultra-broadband light source emits what is known as "supercontinuum" light and has an ultra-wide output spectrum of 1200-2000 nm. The output has similar properties to laser light for easy focusing, a uniform spectral...

FTTX return loss verification artifact.(Test Equipment)
January 1, 2005... The RLCA return loss calibration artifact enables verification of high return loss measurements made on passive optical components. An important tool in the quality control process of passives for FTTX equipment, it can also be used to verify...

1G/10G fiber link qualification testers.(Test Equipment)
January 1, 2005... The Link Qualification Test Boxes simulate worst-case link specifications and test to 1-Gbit/sec IEEE 802.3 and 10-Gbit/sec IEEE 802.3ae. All the fiber link bandwidths, dispersion, and losses are tailored to allow qualification testing of any...

Compact storage extension platform.(Systems)
January 1, 2005... The Storage Extender is a set of configuration options that uses a fully modular architecture and "open port" concept to allow up to 24 high-capacity storage and/ or Ethernet signals to be aggregated onto single or multiple 2.5-Gbit/sec SONET/...

Active Ethernet FTTX system.(Systems)
January 1, 2005... Consisting of an Ethernet concentrator and access node (customer premises equipment), the active Ethernet FTTX system offers a point-to-point last mile strategy, providing flexibility for service providers of Ethernet-based fiber to the...

Aerial, below-grade connector terminals.(Installation)
January 1, 2005... OptiSheath Advantage terminals are optimized for optical access architectures, providing sealed environmental protection and quick and easy incremental connection of subscribers' drop cable. Using OptiFit Advantage drop cable assemblies, the...

Indoor/outdoor plenum cable.(Components)
January 1, 2005... Originally developed as a compact, flame-retardant cable that meets stringent OFNP (plenum)-rated requirements for data-center installations, VersaLite combines its indoor cable properties with rugged jacketing materials for outdoor...

MPLS in access networks enables high-value services.(Multi Protocol Label Switching)
January 1, 2005... MPLS technology first emerged within the communications industry for IP core networks based on Layer 3 IP router infrastructures, mainly as a mechanism to provide flow-based traffic engineering and more recently to deliver...

Music, data in the air at NYC concert hall.(New York City, power maangement)(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... While transmitting voice and data across the country now seems almost trivial, sometimes communicating across the street is not. The managers of a new performance venue in Manhattan discovered this lesson when they attempted to link their...

DSL vs. PON: why no clear winner in Round 1.(Digital Subscriber Line, Passive Optical Network )
January 1, 2005... SBC chose Alcatel's IP-DSL access multiplexers (DSLAMs) as its principal means of building-out broadband access to its installed base of residential customers, giving Alcatel's 7340 fiber to the premises (FTTP) equipment a secondary role....

Federal rulings continue momentum for fiber in the loop.(Analyst Corner)
January 1, 2005... The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Supreme Court both issued key decisions affecting local access networks in October. These legal and regulatory events will positively affect U.S. telephone companies' investments in broadband...

Service-provider routers, switches to hit $8.4b by '07.(Market Watch)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Worldwide revenue for service-provider routers and switches totaled $1.6 billion in the third quarter of 2004, up 11% from the previous quarter and 28% year-over-year, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly worldwide market share and...

China, India to dominate FTTX investment by 2013.(Market Watch)(Fiber to the X)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Worldwide capital expenditures related to FTTX access technology will reach $22.8 billion in 2013, up from an estimated $3.7 billion in 2004, contends a new 10-year forecast from Dittberner Associates (Bethesda, MD). The firm predicts the...

PIC subsystems, components on the rise.(Market Watch)(photonic integrated circuits)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Since the introduction of photonic ICs (PICs) in 1997, the optical-component industry has been slowly migrating from the manual assembly of discrete optical devices to automated semiconductor wafer-processing techniques and single-chip designs....