Lightwave articles from June 2008

Lightwave archives from June 2008

Component vendors chase consumer and industrial riches.(INDUSTRY)
June 1, 2008... Optical component suppliers in large part can thank video--or, more precisely, the bandwidth and data rate requirements that IPTV, video-on-demand, telepresence, and other hot video-based services demand--for last year's upturn in revenue. But...

Packet optical networking aids metro network evolution.(Focus on: TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2008... Network providers have relied on optical networks as scalable, low cost, general purpose aggregation and transport infrastructures. Optical elements provide significant economic value and deliver operational efficiency by embodying "low touch"...

ROADM economics drive CLEC and Tier 2 deployments.(Focus on: APPLICATIONS)
June 1, 2008... Reconfigurable optical add/ drop multiplexers (ROADMs) create a very efficient service provider network infrastructure, enabling high-bandwidth circuits to be established quickly and cost-effectively with minimal manual intervention. ROADMs...

Finisar Corp. (www.finisar.com) and Optium Corp. (www.optium.com) have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction.(HOTPICK)
June 1, 2008... Finisar Corp. (www.finisar.com) and Optium Corp. (www.optium.com) have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction. The resultant company will reportedly be the world's largest supplier of optical components,...

Iamba Networks.(north america)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... iamba Networks (www.iamba.com), provider of GPON equipment, has closed a $7 million round of financing. Investing firms in this round include previous investors Pitango Venture Capital, Cedar Fund, Giza Venture Fund, and Kreos Capital. iamba...

BroadLight.(north america)
June 1, 2008... BroadLight (www.broadlight.com), supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, has been awarded patent number 7,327,679 by the U.S. Patent Office for a "Method of providing Quality of Service (QoS) and bandwidth allocation in a point to...

Verizon.(north america)
June 1, 2008... Verizon (www.verizon.com) has announced a capital investment of approximately $86 million in new network technology for Rhode Island in 2008. The plan extends Verizon's FiOS TV service to an additional 10 communities and expands its...

NEC Corp. of America (www.necam.com), together with AT&T Labs, has successfully demonstrated innovative schemes for modulation and transmission of high-speed optical signals at 40-and 100-Gbit/sec data rates.(north america)
June 1, 2008... NEC Corp. of America (www.necam.com), together with AT&T Labs, has successfully demonstrated innovative schemes for modulation and transmission of high-speed optical signals at 40- and 100-Gbit/sec data rates. This work was initially described...

Fujitsu Network Communications (http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom) is collaborating with Indiana University (IU) on research about the effects that polarizationmode dispersion (PMD) can have on specific wavelengths traveling at 40 Gbits/sec or more.(north america)
June 1, 2008... Fujitsu Network Communications (http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom) is collaborating with Indiana University (IU) on research about the effects that polarizationmode dispersion (PMD) can have on specific wavelengths traveling at 40 Gbits/sec or...

A new social housing development in Belfast is one of the first parts of the UK where residents will be offered a choice of next-generation high-speed broadband services, thanks to an initiative by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI), which is responsible for telecommunications policy in Northern Ireland.(emea)
June 1, 2008... A new social housing development in Belfast is one of the first parts of the UK where residents will be offered a choice of next-generation high-speed broadband services, thanks to an initiative by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and...

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.(emea)
June 1, 2008... Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (www.huawei.com) confirms that it installed a 2,700-km next-generation WDM backbone network for Magyar Telekom in Hungary--in just three months. The backbone, which covers all of the country, including the capital...

Railway Telecom Ltd., based in Tblisi, Georgia, has installed BTI Systems' (www.btisystems.com) Netstender 2060 to expand its delivery capacity of wholesale services and international connectivity.(emea)
June 1, 2008... Railway Telecom Ltd., based in Tblisi, Georgia, has installed BTI Systems' (www.btisystems.com) Netstender 2060 to expand its delivery capacity of wholesale services and international connectivity. BTI's gear will enable Railway Telecom, a...

Cable network provider PrimaCom AG has deployed a DWDM metro optical network in Saxonia, Germany based on OpVista Inc.'s (www.opvista.com) OpVista2000 Optical Transport System.(emea)
June 1, 2008... Cable network provider PrimaCom AG has deployed a DWDM metro optical network in Saxonia, Germany based on OpVista Inc.'s (www.opvista.com) OpVista2000 Optical Transport System. An additional metro optical network, also based on the OpVista2000,...

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has been chosen by Etisalat, the leading integrated service provider in the Middle East, to build a large-scale commercial FTTH network in the United Arab Emirates.(emea)
June 1, 2008... Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has been chosen by Etisalat, the leading integrated service provider in the Middle East, to build a large-scale commercial FTTH network in the United Arab Emirates. Etisalat has crafted an all-IP strategy to drive...

Optical Internetworking Forum.(Update)
June 1, 2008... Network engineers designing look-aside interfaces will want to take a fresh look at the new Serial Look-Aside Interface (SLA) Implementation Agreement (IA) unveiled by the Optical Internetworking Forum (www.oiforum.com), say OIF...

Schiphol Telematics (ST), the telecom operator at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, has selected ECI Telecom (www.ecitele.com) to provide a three-year managed service contract for its next-generation networks (NGN).(emea)
June 1, 2008... Schiphol Telematics (ST), the telecom operator at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, has selected ECI Telecom (www.ecitele.com) to provide a three-year managed service contract for its next-generation networks (NGN). ECI confirms that it will...

Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) is upgrading and expanding the existing transport infrastructure of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE SA), Greece's leading service provider, as part of a project valued at more than 12 million [euro].(emea)
June 1, 2008... Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) is upgrading and expanding the existing transport infrastructure of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE SA), Greece's leading service provider, as part of a project valued at more than 12...

Alcatel-Lucent also has been selected by France's higher education and research community, the Association Reseau Haut Debit du Plateau de Saclay, to deliver a very high-speed network.(emea)
June 1, 2008... Alcatel-Lucent also has been selected by France's higher education and research community, the Association Reseau Haut Debit du Plateau de Saclay, to deliver a very high-speed network. Connecting leading French engineering and management...

Infinity Consortium.(asia)
June 1, 2008... The Infinity Consortium has submitted a strong bid to build an FTTH broadband network. The network would be capable of delivering ultrahigh symmetric broadband speeds reaching up to 1 Gbit/sec and beyond. The Infinity Consortium was formed...

UTStarcom Inc. (www.utstar.com) says it has been awarded a contract by United Telecoms Ltd. to deliver IPTV, bandwidth-on-demand, and voiceover-IP (VoIP) services in the state of Goa.(asia)
June 1, 2008... UTStarcom Inc. (www.utstar.com) says it has been awarded a contract by United Telecoms Ltd. to deliver IPTV, bandwidth-on-demand, and voiceoverIP (VoIP) services in the state of Goa. The end-to-end network will provide more than 100,000...

Sterlite Technologies Ltd.(asia)
June 1, 2008... Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (www.sterlitetechnologies.com) plans to expand its fiber-optic cables facilities to an annual manufacturing capacity of 6 million km from its current capacity of 2 million km. This expansion, in conjunction with an...

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (SEI; www.sei.co.jp) says it has expanded its optical device and optical transceiver manufacturing with the opening of Sumitomo Electric Photo-Electronics Components (Suzhou), Ltd. (SPEC) in China.(asia)
June 1, 2008... Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (SEI; www.sei.co.jp) says it has expanded its optical device and optical transceiver manufacturing with the opening of Sumitomo Electric Photo-Electronics Components (Suzhou), Ltd. (SPEC) in China. SEI says the...

Packet transport and the evolution of Ethernet.(www.lightwaveonline.com: new digital at your fingertips)
June 1, 2008... The Ethernet movement is evolving in a number of apparently random directions: Synchronous Ethernet, Ethernet protection switching, PBT, SLA monitoring, circuit emulation, etc. But the common thread in all these additions to the Ethernet...

The PONzi scheme.(www.lightwaveonline.com: new digital at your fingertips)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... PON is an increasingly popular infrastructure choice for delivering broadband services in the United States and even more so in Europe and Asia. But PON--including forthcoming versions like WDM-PON--isn't the panacea that some make it out to...

Multipoint PBB-TE and T-MPLS.(www.lightwaveonline.com: new digital at your fingertips)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... This article provides an update on the latest developments in connection-oriented packet transport technologies Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) and Transport Multiprotocol Label Switching (T-MPLS), with particular...

The Lightwave channel.(www.lightwaveonline.com: new digital at your fingertips)
June 1, 2008... Visit our web site to see what industry executives have to say about the current state of the fiberoptic communications industry, as well as the latest developments they've been working on.

On the Lightwave blog.(www.lightwaveonline.com: new digital at your fingertips)
June 1, 2008... The Lightwave staff--and site visitors like you--comment on such topics as: What's happening at June's NXTcomm tradeshow... the Finisar/Optium merger... soccer in 3D... industry consensus on 100G modulation formats... and whatever happens...

How big is big enough?(Editorial)
June 1, 2008... Last month's announcement that Finisar and Optium have agreed to merge has created plenty of fodder for conversation. Principal among the topics under debate has been whether the creation of a new giant in the components and subsystems space...

RF broadcast experiencing industry 'resurgence'.(TECH TRENDS)
June 1, 2008... The folks behind this month's NXTcomm08 Conference are rightly touting IPTV as one of the industry's bigger trends, but that doesn't mean tried-and-true RF broadcast will be cast aside. In fact, some say the technology is experiencing a...

OpVista demos 40/100G system at NXTcomm08.(PRODUCT PROFILE)
June 1, 2008... OpVista (www.opvista.com) will debut its CX8 Optical Networking System, the successor to its OpVista2000, at NXTcomm08 this month in Las Vegas. Targeted at metro/regional networks up to 1,000 km in length, the CX-8 features a total system...

Fiber distribution terminal.(COMPONENTS)
June 1, 2008... The ClearCurve fiber distribution terminal is a small, simple, rugged interconnect between the fiberoptic network and drop cables, suited for fiber-to-the-multi-dwelling-unit (MDU) and fiber-to-the-business (FTTB) applications. The terminal can...

SFP+ transceivers.(COMPONENTS)
June 1, 2008... A family of SFP+ transceivers features 8G and 10G offerings that support new deployments in the data center, core, and backbone, and migration upgrades for storage applications. The portfolio includes the 10GBase-LRM, which utilizes a newly...

OSAs for high-speed video.(COMPONENTS)
June 1, 2008... The P1TX6A-SX51 (TOSA) and P1RX6A-SX51 (receive optical subassembly--ROSA) are multichannel, bidirectional optical subassemblies allowing direct mapping of multiple TMDS signals over a single fiber. Specifically designed for copyright-protected...

Provider network controller.(COMPONENTS)(Soapstone Networks Inc. )(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The company will be showcasing its resource and service control plane framework interworking northbound to the service/OSS layer and southbound to a multivendor Carrier Ethernet network, providing much needed multivendor integration as well as...

Intelligent multiservice switch.(COMPONENTS)
June 1, 2008... The SN 9000 intelligent multi-service switch cost-effectively integrates multiple bandwidth management functions into a single, highly compact system, including low-order (VT/VC) and high-order (OC-n/STM-n) switching, add/drop multiplexing,...

FTTX processor family.(COMPONENTS)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The new Silverstone HX300 product family integrates a fully programmable 100-Gbit/sec NPU with switching technology and advanced traffic management. The enhanced level of integration extends Carrier Ethernet services to the access market and...

PON system.(SYSTEMS)(passive optical network)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The edge10 system is the nextgeneration of PON networks. Delivering up to 10-Gbit/sec Ethernet services to any subscriber, the system also preserves customers' investment by operating with legacy network equipment and architectures. Density and...

Carrier-class Ethernet series.(SYSTEMS)
June 1, 2008... At NXTcomm 2008, Ceterus Networks will launch the UTS4000 series of carrier-class native Ethernet products, delivering converged Ethernet and T1/E1 pseudowire services over Native Ethernet transport solutions, with flexible configurations...

Carrier Ethernet switch routers.(SYSTEMS)
June 1, 2008... The 9700 series of Carrier Ethernet switch router (CESR) products enables operators to deliver the latest Ethernet, MPLS, and IP services from the metro core. This first transportoptimized Carrier Ethernet portfolio is also part of the...

Backbone routers.(SYSTEMS)
June 1, 2008... The NetIron XMR Series backbone routers effectively address service provider challenges by offering state-oftheart hardware and software design. With tremendous growth in Internet throughput, the NetIron XMR exceeds capacity requirements while...

Multiservice access platform.(SYSTEMS)
June 1, 2008... The CN 3180 is the first in a family of compact multiservice access platforms (MSAPs) that are optimized to enable the cost-effective convergence of wireless 2G, 3G, and 4G services over a high-bandwidth, packet-based, backhaul infrastructure....

Packet optical networking platform.(SYSTEMS)
June 1, 2008... The FLASHWAVE 9500 packet optical networking platform (packet ONP) provides the modular integration of Ethernet, reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing (ROADM), and SONET transport technologies in a single, addressable optical...

Tunable transponder/ generator.(SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The Optelian RGN-10GXT 10-Gbit/ sec transponder/regenerator is fully tunable across 89 ITU (C-Band) wavelengths. It supports 3R operation, rates from 9.953 to 11.3 Gbits/sec and SONET OC-192/ FEC, 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) LAN PHY, 10GbE/...

Optical networking system.(SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The OpVista CX8 optical networking system extends the life of today's metro and regional networks by enabling them to support 40G and 100G services with fiber capacity up to 8 Tbits/sec over a single fiber. The company's portfolio utilizes a...

Ethernet demarcation device.(SYSTEMS)
June 1, 2008... The TAG-12 is a customer premises equipment (CPE) unit demarcation device for metro Ethernet providers. The TAG-12 supports both MPLS and PBT and applies the company's strategy of extending PBT to the customer edge to lower operational expenses...

Universal access platform.(SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The Trident7 universal access platform represents next-generation optical access architecture by supporting ITU G.984 GPON, IEEE 802.3 GEPON (EFM PON), and IEEE 802.3 point-to-point access technologies from a common platform. The Trident7...

WAN emulator.(TEST EQUIPMENT)
June 1, 2008... Linktropy WAN emulators are used to test the performance of applications in the lab under real-world network conditions. The WAN emulators simulate network bandwidth, latency, packet loss, congestion, and other link impairments to emulate...

Carrier-class test platform.(TEST EQUIPMENT)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... InterWatch is a powerful and robust carrier-class test platform for VoIP and IMS networks, providing flexibility, performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Used by leading equipment manufacturers and network operators to simulate...

Network optical switch module.(TEST EQUIPMENT)
June 1, 2008... Reportedly the first all-optical matrix switch, the N-OSM features a dedicated RS-232 serial interface for minimal communications latency and is capable of completing an entire matrix switchover in less than 10 msec. It exhibits low electrical...

Hub with distribution splice option.(INSTALLATION)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The OmniReach FDH 3000 in-hub distribution splice option arms engineers with more design choices to deliver FTTP services to residences, enterprises, or other locations. This new deployment option allows technicians to splice distribution...

S. Korean wireless backhaul evolution provides lessons.(Applications: innovative component, subsystem, system, and network design examples and alternatives)
June 1, 2008... In communications, early adopters drive market demand and at the same time push service providers to offer greater bandwidth and more services. The percentage of early adopters in Far Eastern countries like South Korea and Japan far exceed the...

Vermont gets serious about FTTH.(CASE BY CASE)
June 1, 2008... At press time, 23 municipalities in a region of east central Vermont known as the Upper Valley had signed a joint venture agreement that legally binds them to the East Central Vermont Fiber Network (www.ecfiber.net) project, a municipal...

ROADMs: coming to the edge of a network near you.(ANALYST CORNER)
June 1, 2008... Existing IXC networks, at almost every level, are conglomerates of various generations and types of technologies. To an extent this has always been the case, but it is more so than ever now because of the timing of the telecom burst at the...

Switch/routing equipment sales up in 4Q07.(MARKET WATCH)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Industry research and analysis group Ovum RHK (www.ovum.com) says in its analysis of global 4Q07 service provider switching and routing equipment sales that sales in 4Q07 grew to $2.94 billion overall, a 17% increase compared to one year ago....

Telco TV continues expansion in Europe, North America.(MARKET WATCH)
June 1, 2008... The availability of telco TV services continues to expand to new countries just as availability expands within those countries as higher-bandwidth networks are built to deliver video, according to a new report from In-Stat (www.instat.com). In...

High-speed forecast shows less profit for telcos.(MARKET WATCH)
June 1, 2008... Information Gatekeepers Inc. (www.igigroup.com) has developed a new forecast that highlights the quandary facing the large telcos in the U.S. today. According to Paul Polishuk, PhD, president of IGI, telcos have been installing and placing...