Lightwave articles from July 2006

Lightwave archives from July 2006

FTTH not free from urban legends.(APPLICATIONS)(fiber-to-the-home)
July 1, 2006... Our world is full of myths, half-truths, and shams--many of them promulgated via the Internet. With access to the far reaches of the globe at billions of fingertips, people can conspire at their computers and spread rumors that run rampant in...

Cost drives ROADM component selection.(INDUSTRY)(reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers)
July 1, 2006... When it comes to network reconfigurability, there seems to be a gap between the capabilities network architects say they want and the attributes of the devices network operators actually are deploying. Carriers must consider engineering rules...

Triple-play to MDUs/MTUs requires the right equipment.(TECHNOLOGY)(multiple-dwelling unit/multitenant unit)
July 1, 2006... The market for triple-play services for multiple-dwelling unit/multitenant unit (MDU/ MTU) customers presents a substantial opportunity for carriers. According to the National Multi-Housing Council, 14% of all U.S. households are in MDUs,...

ADVA Optical Networking (www.advaoptical.com) has agreed to acquire privately held Movaz Networks Inc. (www.movaz.com).(HOTPICK)
July 1, 2006... ADVA Optical Networking (www.advaoptical.com) has agreed to acquire privately held Movaz Networks Inc. (www.movaz.com). ADVA will acquire all outstanding shares and options of Movaz via a combination of shares and cash. ADVA will issue...

XO Communications (www.xo.com) has signed a multiyear agreement worth up to $3 million to provide 800 miles of dark fiber between Atlanta, Richmond, and Washington, DC to the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC; www.mbc-va.com).(North America)
July 1, 2006... XO Communications (www.xo.com) has signed a multiyear agreement worth up to $3 million to provide 800 miles of dark fiber between Atlanta, Richmond, and Washington, DC to the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC; www.mbc-va.com), an...

ANDA Networks.(North America)
July 1, 2006... ANDA Networks (www.andanetworks.com) has closed an additional $10.5 million round of equity funding, which will be used for global expansion to support international customer Ethernet deployments. The round's largest investors include Venrock...

RBN Inc.(get funds from Jolimont Ventures and Allen and Buckeridge Proprietary Ltd)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... RBN Inc. (www.rbni.com) has closed its most recent round of funding and has completed a recapitalization of the company. The financing round was co-led by new investor Jolimont Ventures and existing investor Allen and Buckeridge (both...

Nistica.(get funds from PA Early Stage Partners and Technology Venture Partners Proprietary Ltd.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Nistica (www.nistica.com) a new optical subsystems developer, has received Series A funding from PA Early Stage, Technoloy Venture Partners, and other investors. According to the company it has developed a new class of intelligent optical...

Siemens Communications (www.siemens.de/communications) will work with Belgacom International Carrier Services (ICS; www.belgacom-ics.be) to develop what it claims is the first telecom network based on reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology in continental Europe.(Europe)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Siemens Communications (www.siemens.de/communications) will work with Belgacom International Carrier Services (ICS; www.belgacom-ics.be) to develop what it claims is the first telecom network based on reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer...

TeleCable.(Europe)
July 1, 2006... Spanish telecom provider TeleCable is supplying Cajastur, a large regional savings bank in Spain, with Nortel (www.nortel. com) technology and services to securely connect its 100 bank offices across three major cities in the Asturias region.

Rostelecom (www.rt.ru/en), Russia's national long-distance telecommunications operator, has launched a new fiber-optic line from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to the city of Heihe in Heilongjiang province, China.(teamed up with China Telecom (Hong Kong) Group Ltd.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Rostelecom (www.rt.ru/en), Russia's national long-distance telecommunications operator, has launched a new fiber-optic line from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to the city of Heihe in Heilongjiang province, China. The high-speed,...

MobiCom (www.mobicom.mn), a Mongolian mobile communications service provider, has upgraded its Cisco Internet Protocol next-generation network (IP NGN) architecture by deploying Cisco Systems' (www.cisco.com) 0NS15454 SDH multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP).(Chunghwa Telecom also contracts with Cisco Systems)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... MobiCom (www.mobicom.mn), a Mongolian mobile communications service provider, has upgraded its Cisco Internet Protocol next-generation network (IP NGN) architecture by deploying Cisco Systems' (www.cisco.com) 0NS 15454 SDH multiservice...

Luminent (www.luminentoic.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of MRV Communications, has agreed to acquire HG Genuine Opto (www.genuine-opto.com), a subsidiary of Huagong Tech (HG Tech).(Asia)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Luminent (www.luminentoic.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of MRV Communications, has agreed to acquire HG Genuine Opto (www.genuine-opto.com), a subsidiary of Huagong Tech (HG Tech). HG Genuine Opto is the second-largest optical transceiver...

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) selected FibroLAN (www.fibrolan.com) to supply systems for a newly installed fiber-optic backbone network.(HOTPICK)
July 1, 2006... The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) selected FibroLAN (www.fibrolan.com) to supply systems for a newly installed fiber-optic backbone network. The FibroLAN equipment supports video surveillance applications, data...

Homes for sale: here in the States it seems to me that POF's best opportunity will only arrive when other options have been tried and found wanting.(plastic optical fiber)(Editorial)
July 1, 2006... This month's story on plastic optical fiber (see "Proponents Hope Home Is Where the Plastic Is" on page 31) highlights a new area of carrier concern: home networks. The advent of fiber to the home has shifted the point of demarcation from...

Service quality is crucial for core 10G networks.(Technology: Advances in research, development, engineering, and standards)
July 1, 2006... The growing enthusiasm for Ethernet-based services shows no signs of abating. Indeed, the advent of 10-Gbit Ethernet (10-GbE)--with its increased bandwidth and improved fault-detection schemes--is accelerating the trend toward introducing...

XFP-E compromises size for pluggability, tunability.(OpNext Inc., Avanex Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. signed an agreement)(extended-size transceivers)
July 1, 2006... At the OFC/NFOEC Conference this past March, Opnext, Avanex, and Mitsubishi Electric announced a multisource agreement (MSA) for an XFP-E (extended-size) transceiver designed for 80-km and tunable DWDM applications. However, the system vendor...

New optical fiber improves FTTX performance.(STANDARDS WATCH)(Fiber-to-the-Home/Curb/Neighborhood )
July 1, 2006... As the FTTH market heats up, optical fiber manufacturers have the challenge to provide new value in the fiber portion of the FTTX network. More than 20 years of successful fiber designs have served the multigigabit, high-channel-count, and...

Modular patch panels.
July 1, 2006... The UNP-MOD-24P and UNP-MOD-48P modular panels, configured for both copper and fiber connections, are designed for high-speed data, voice, and multimedia premises networks. The panels use snapin distribution modules and allow the outlets to be...

Internally shielded union adapters.
July 1, 2006... The SureConnect family of internally shielded fiber-optic union adapters includes an internal length of optical fiber that prevents direct physical contact of the polished cable ends to one another, without compromising optical performance. The...

Low-profile fusion splicer.
July 1, 2006... The FITEL S122's compact design, dual camera views, and icon-driven operation offer portability, speed, accuracy, and easier operation for installations. The machine weighs 2.3 lb with battery and measures 1.85 inches high at the keypad,...

Metrobility tackles Ethernet services with new edge device.(Metrobility Optical Systems)
July 1, 2006... As this issue was going to press, Telco Systems announced its intention to acquire Metrobility Optical Systems. Prior to that announcement, Metrobility (www.metrobility.com) unveiled its RS960 Ethernet services provisioning platform, a...

Low-jitter single-chip synchronizers.
July 1, 2006... The ZL30116 and ZL30119 phase-locked loops are single-chip ultralow-jitter devices for managing synchronization in SONET/SDH applications at OC-48/STM-16 rates. Both chips generate three independent clock families, eliminating the need for...

Field-installable fiber connectors.
July 1, 2006... Preterminated, factory-polished FastCam connectors require no special tools, epoxy, or hand-polishing, allowing rapid installation. The connectors are available in ST and SC styles to fit 250- and 900-pm cables with standard singlemode and...

Multipurpose bend-insensitive fibers.
July 1, 2006... NuWIRE fibers can support a lifespan of 22 years with continuous operation at temperatures as high as 125[degrees]C, in communication and sensor applications where temperature variations may be large and rapid and where shock stress and...

EPON SoC for ONU apps.
July 1, 2006... Used in FTTH access networks, the 130-nm TK3713 optical network unit (ONU) chip provides necessary features for single-chip, IPTV-capable ONU applications. The chip's PQFP package reduces the ONU board layer count versus competing BGA packages....

GPON is more than just a faster PON.(Focus on)(gigabit passive optical network)
July 1, 2006... Although GPON's most famous feature is its downstream rate of 2,488 Mbits/sec, it is GPON's architecture and upstream quality-of-service (QoS) functions that offer real transport capability for high-quality voice, high-bandwidth IPTV, and data...

Demographic analysis helps make case for triple play.(CASE BY CASE)
July 1, 2006... For telecommunications carriers considering the addition of a triple-play component to their networks, the lure can often seem more like Pandora's box than low-hanging fruit. While the triple play comes with the promise of increased profits and...

Proponents hope home is where the plastic is.(Industry: Opportunities, market intelligence, and forecasts to improve your bottom line)
July 1, 2006... Proponents of plastic optical fiber (POF) have long touted the technology as a viable alternative to copper and glass fiber in enterprise networks--with little success. Now that broadband services have put new demands on networks within the...

PON chips evolve.(Passive optical networks )
July 1, 2006... Passive optical networks (PONs) deliver as much bandwidth as VDSL or more, and over much longer reaches, providing an excellent alternative for high-speed broadband services. But PON deployment has been slowed by the high cost and complexity of...

The light side.(Applications)(Cartoon)
July 1, 2006... "It was just a few photons. I don't even remember creating this O.I.F. thing, and what's a multisource agreement working group?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Metro Ethernet tops $4.9b in 2005, will triple by 2009.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... According to a report from Infonetics Research, worldwide metro Ethernet equipment revenue nearly doubled between 2004 and 2005, growing from $2.6 billion to more than $4.9 billion, and is expected to reach $15.5 billion by 2009. The firm sees...

MEMS revenue weak despite strong shipment growth.(microelectromechanical systems )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Worldwide revenue growth for sales of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices slowed dramatically in 2005, despite "very strong" unit shipments, according to a report from In-Stat. The firm reports that nearly 1.8 billion MEMS devices...

Datacom optical components to hit $1.3b by 2011.(Ovum-RHK )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Ovum-RHK expects global datacom optical component sales to grow at an 11% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $728 million in 2005 to $1.34 billion in 2011. According to the firm, Ethernet transceivers will lead the market growth, with the...