Lightwave articles from March 2002

Lightwave archives from March 2002

CANARIE receives government funding for object-oriented 'Internet 2' network. (Networks).
March 1, 2002... CA*net4, the successor to Canada's equivalent of the Internet 2 network for research and education, is on track for deployment by June 30. On Dec. 14,2001, the nonprofit corporation CANARIE Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario), which is dedicated to the...

BT Ignite pushes fiber across Central and Eastern Europe. (Networks).
March 1, 2002... At the end of 2001, BT Ignite completed phase three of Europe's largest network footprint. Ignite has combined some inherited assets from past BT-funded joint ventures across the continent into this build project and now boosts its pan-European...

Nano-technology poised for first (but not last) optical applications. (Technology).
March 1, 2002... Following more than 20 years of extensive research, nano-technology is about to make a significant impact in the telecommunications industry, with fiber-optic technology becoming its first "poster child' What was once considered science fiction...

Collaborative drives commercialization of 40-Gbit/sec technology. (Trends).
March 1, 2002... Just before the 2001 holiday season, long- and ultra-long-haul photonic-system supplier PhotonEx (Maynard, MA) identified the need for a new business alliance to forward the adoption of 40-Gbit/sec technology. By Jan. 15, the 40G Collaborative,...

Hot off the press. (Industry Update).
March 1, 2002... OpenVoB, a consortium of companies focused on accelerating the deployment of voice-over-broadband services, successfully completed multivendor interoperability tests, known as CallFests, at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability...

Verizon. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Verizon (New York city) announced a fiber-to-the-home project in Brambleton, VA. The first phase of development will include linking homes via fiber for access to high-capacity, voice, video, and data services. Services will be delivered...

Cable Labs. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tellabs (Lisle, IL) received industry certification from CableLabs (Louisville, CO), the cable industry's research and development consortium, for its high-speed cable device, which provides voice and data services over IP. The certification,...

Merit Network. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Merit Network (Ann Arbor, MI), a Michigan Internet provider serving more than 500,000 users, selected Alidian Network's (San Jose, CA) OSN 4200 systems to upgrade its backbone transport network. Merit will deploy the first phase of its backbone...

Cierra Photonics Inc. (North America).(terra-CQ 50G-5 )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... Cierra photonics Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) began shipping its latest filter product to multiple customers. The terra-CQ 50G-5 is a five-cavity optical filter chip capable of 50GHZ DWDM channel spacing. The orders will place the product in both...

Broadwing. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Broadwing (Cincinnati) announced an agreement to provide advanced IP virtual-private-network services to Fortune Brands (Lincolnshire, IL), a consumer-products company. The suite of secure services and products include private Internet...

Quake Technologies Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Quake Technologies Inc. (Kanata, Ontario), a fables semiconductor company, announced availability of samples of its QT2020 single-chip 10-Gigabit Ethernet transceiver IC. The product is a fully integrated, monolithic transceiver designed for...

Corona Optical Systems Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Corona Optical Systems Inc. (Lombard, IL) announced shipments of its parallel optical modules to an unspecified revenue customer. The modules, used in backplane and shelf-to-shelf links, facilitate optical communications within and between core...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Pirelli (Milan, Italy) announced a research alliance between its Pirelli Labs and the Microphotonics Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The five-year framework agreement for advanced basic research in the field of photonics...

Level 3 Communications Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Level 3 Communications Inc. (Broomfield, CO) announced multiple agreements to provide Cox Communications Inc. (Atlanta) with broadband infrastructure services to support the company's 779,000 residential and business high-speed Internet...

White Rocks Networks. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... White Rocks Networks (Richardson, TX) selected Butler Telecom Inc. (Montvale, NJ), the telecommunications services division of Butler International Inc., as a preferred service provider, white Rock manufactures high-speed metropolitan optical...

Tektronix Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tektronix inc. (Beaverton, OR) was granted a U.S. patent on its digital phase analysis (DPA) technology, a jitter analysis approach to test optical communications networks. Capitalizing on silicon germanium technology, OPA time-stamps every...

Laser Comm. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... LaserComm (Plano, TX), a manufacturer of photonic components and modules with an emphasis on managing chromatic dispersion in optical networks, secured $21 million in fourth-round financing from internal investors. Morgan Stanley venture...

Tellabs. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tellabs (Naperville, IL) completed its acquisition of Ocular Networks (Reston, VA), adding three new products to its portfolio of digital crossconnects and transport switching systems. Tellabs paid $355 million in cash and options for privately...

Choice One Communications. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Choice one Communications (Rochester, NY) activated its intracity fiber ring in Albany, NY The network was acquired from Fibertech Networks (Rochester, NY), which is designing and building fiber networks within mid-sized U.S. cities. The Albany...

Telia International Carrier Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Telia International Carrier Inc. (Reston, VA), announced completion of the North American segment of its wholly owned international fiber network. Using optical-networking equipment from Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ), the U.S. Viking...

Hyperchip Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Hyperchip Inc. (Montreal) secured $70 million in its fourth round of financing, bringing the total amount raised to about $220 million. The lead investor was TechnoCap (Montreal), and the round included a $50-million loan from...

Big Bear Networks. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Optical startup Big Bear Networks (Milpitas, CA), an optical-networking provider designing photonic signal processing products for 10-and 40-Gbit/sec carrier equipment, raised $40 million in second-round private funding. Lead investors are...

Astral Point Communication. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Alcatel (Paris) has agreed to acquire Astral Point Communications (Chelmsford, MA), a manufacturer of SONET metro optical systems. The value of the transaction is approximately 153 million euros. The transaction, expected to close this quarter,...

Gambit Communications. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Gambit Communications (Nashua, NH), a network-management simulation-tools provider, entered into a partnership with NOC Builder (Plano, TX), a provider of network consulting and software solutions for network operations centers (NOCs). NOC...

Optiwave Corp. (North America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Optiwave Corp. (Ottawa, Ontario), a developer of optical simulation software for fiber-optic telecommunications, secured $7 million in financing from VenGrowth Capital Partners and the Business Development Bank of Canada. Optiwave plans to...

Brasil Telecom SA. (South America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Brasil Telecom SA, the third largest telecommunications company in Brazil, began providing storage networking to the Brazilian Central Bank by connecting the bank's two data centers with optical fiber. ADVA Optical Networking (Munich) provided...

New World Network Ltd. (South America).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... New World Network Ltd. (Hamilton. Bermuda), owner of the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System (ARCOS), selected NetCracker Technologies (Waltham, MA) to provide an operational support system for its telecommunications infrastructure....

Proximion Fiber Optics AB. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Proximion Fiber Optics AB (Kista, Sweden) began shipping samples of WISTOM, an optical layer monitor that combines both optical-channel monitoring and opticalchannel performance functionality. Proximion, founded in 1998, is a spinoff from...

Alcatel. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Alcatel (Paris) announced a supply agreement with NetRail, a telecommunications service provider wholly owned by REFER, Portugal's rail infrastructure manager. Alcatel will provide more than 40,000 km of cabled optical fiber to upgrade...

ADVA Optical Networking. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... ADVA Optical Networking (Munich) announced that GiGX Communications (Houston), a privately owned metropolitan access provider, will deploy ADVA's fiber service platform portfolio to provide optical transport services for carriers, Internet...

Bookham Technology plc. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Bookham Technology plc (Oxfordshire, UK) will acquire the assets of Marconi Optical Components Ltd. (Caswell, Northamptonshire, UK) in an all-stock transaction. Under the agreement, Marconi will buy components and subsystems from Bookham over...

KPNQwest NV. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... KPNQwest NV (Brussels) was approved by the European Commission to purchase rival Global TeleSystems Inc.'s operations, which include Ebone and GTS Central Europe. Ebone is a broadband IP and optical networking company serving Europe's carriers,...

Terahertz Photonics Ltd. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Terahertz Photonics Ltd. (Livingston, Scotland) secured second-round funding of six million euros to develop its planar-lightwave-circuit (PLC) platform technology. Investors included Add Partners and Scottish Equity Partners. The funding will...

ULM Photonics. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... ULM Photonics (San Jose, CA), a pioneer in flip-chip-ready vertical-cavity surface-emitting-laser (VCSEL) arrays and 10-Gbit/sec VCSELs, opened a new manufacturing facility in Germany. The company, established by a research group from ULM...

MergeOptics GmbH. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... MergeOptics GmbH (Berlin), a developer of highly integrated components and subsystems for high-speed data transfer, received 5 million euros in funding. Lead investors are Earlybird (Hamburg) and Target Partners (Munich). The MergeOptics...

Controlware GmbH. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Controlware GmbH (Dietzenbach, Germany), a provider of LastMile AG (Dietzenbach) optical-networking solutions, announced that Compaq Computer Corp. (Houston) completed interoperability testing of the LastMile WavePilot DWDM product with...

Lattice Group plc. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Carrier's carrier 186k (Boca Raton, FL), a subsidiary of the Lattice Group plc (London), completed and lit a 2,000-kin, 96-fiber nationwide network that connects 20 towns and cities across the United Kingdom, from Glasgow to Bristol. Nortel...

Lagercrantz Group AB. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Sweden's ACTE Components, a group of companies owned by the Lagercrantz Group AB (Stockholm), signed a sales and distribution agreement with West Bay Semiconductor Inc. (Vancouver) to distribute West Bay's products in Sweden, Finland, Norway,...

Lucent Technologies. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) supplied Deutsche Telekom (Nuremberg, Germany) with its first compact global optical transport system and switch, the LambdaUnite multiservice switch (MSS). Deutsche Telekom will test the system for support...

Cable & Wireless plc. (Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Cable & Wireless plc (London) completed the acquisition of PSINet Japan Inc. from PSINet Inc. for $16.6 million. PSINet Japan provides IP connectivity and Web hosting services for enterprise customers in Japan. The acquisition will reinforce...

LightConnect Inc. (Asia).(signs Maruban as Japanese sales rep)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... LightConnect Inc. (Newark, CA), a global supplier of diffractive microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based dynamic components for optical networking, signed Marubun Corp. (Tokyo) as its exclusive Japanese sales representative. Marubun has...

China Netcom Corp. Ltd. (Asia).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... China Netcom Corp. Ltd., a facilities-based broadband telecommunications operator in China, deployed the first live multiservice resilient-packet-ring (RPR) platform from Luminous Networks (Cupertino, CA). China Netcom is deploying Luminous's...

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (Asia).(upgrades Japan-US backbone lines)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ--Tokyo) completed an upgrade of its Japan-United States backbone lines from 1.8 Gbits/sec to 2.25 Gbits/sec by securing additional capacity of 600 Mbits/sec between Tokyo and San Jose, CA. IIJ increased its...

C2C Pte. Ltd. (Asia).(secured funding)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... C2C Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), a subsidiary of Signapore Telecommunications Ltd., secured $700 million of secured financing facilities, comprising a $660-million five-year amortizating term loan and a $40-million three-year revolving credit...

Asia Global Crossing. (Asia).(subsea cable system)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Asia Global Crossing, a company formed by Global Crossing Ltd., Microsoft, and Softbank, announced the landing of its East Asia Crossing subsea cable system in Singapore. The link connects Singapore to more than 200 cities and 27 countries...

PT Telekom. (Asia).(awards cntract for backbone network for Sumatra)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... PT Telekom, an Indonesian telecommunications company, awarded a turnkey contract worth more than 70 million euros to Pirelli (Milan, Italy) and Siemens IC Networks (Munich) for a terrestrial-undersea backbone network in the Indonesian island of...

Australia Japan Cable. (Africa - Middle East Australia).(undersea fiber-optic cable)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Australia Japan Cable, a 12,000-km undersea fiber-optic cable linking Australia to Japan via Guam, began commercial operations. The cable deploys SDH ring technology and was constructed by NEC (Tokyo), and Teistra NDC Ltd. (Melbourne) provided...

Bahrain Telecommunications Co. (Africa - Middle East Australia).(contract with PurOptix)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Bahrain Telecommunications Co. (Batelco--Manama, Bahrain) awarded a contract to PurOptix (Carlsbad, CA) to deliver a turnkey fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-business pilot network for up to 100 homes and 20 businesses in Bahrain. Following...

Powercor Australia. (Africa - Middle East Australia).(to use equipment from ADC Telecommunications)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Powercor Australia, a major electricity distribution company covering more than half of the state of Victoria, selected fiber equipment from ADC (Minneapolis) for each of the 33 sites along its fiber-optic ring to Ballarat and Bendigo. ADC will...

Another judging controversy. (Editorial).(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... Anyone who followed Olympic skating competitions is now well versed in the difference between scores for technical merit--how well the skaters performed their routines--and artistic impression (costumes, music, and overall aesthetic appeal)....

WSJ fiber stories off the mark. (Regulation & Policy).
March 1, 2002... Just because a newspaper prints a story does not make it true, even if the paper is the Wall Street Journal and the subject is fiber optics. In late 2000, WSJ ran two stories about the "incredible amount of [fiber] capacity" and the "fiber...

Digital services drive network evolution. (Broadband).(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers 2001 Emerging Technologies conference)
March 1, 2002... The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE-www.scte.org) held its 2001 Emerging Technologies (ET) conference in San Jose, CA, in January. The charter of this annual SCTE conference is to look ahead to technical and business trends...

We've come a long way in 12 months. (Wall Street & Finance).
March 1, 2002... For several months, Ciena has stressed that the real focus of carriers needs to be operating-expense savings when considering equipment spending plans. More vendors and, more important, carriers are seemingly in agreement on this point. The...

OS components: Desperately seeking opportunities. (Analyst Corner).
March 1, 2002... Optical switching has long been touted as the missing link in the evolution of the all-optical network. But while a year or two back some analysts were predicting booming sales of all-optical-switching components and subsystems, an analysis of...

New 10-Gbit/sec 50-micron MMF standards. (Standards Watch).
March 1, 2002... With keen interest, the fiber and cabling industries are rapidly adopting a suite of standards and supporting test procedures defining the specifications of new laser-optimized 50-micron multimode fiber (MMF). While supporting low-cost...

Verizon moves to thwart competitors, expanding deeper into ILEC territories. (Networks).
March 1, 2002... First, it was Dallas/Fort Worth, then Seattle, and now Los Angeles. Although Verizon (New York City) may not be commenting on where it will strike next, there's a definite pattern in the company's expansion plan to move beyond its local serving...

Despite economy, OFC 2002 looks to be bigger than ever. (Trends).
March 1, 2002... Theme of the 27th annual Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference and Exhibition is "Changing at Light Speed"--rather ironic given that even conference coordinator Cynthia Davis admits "not much has changed: OFC is OFC." Of course,...

Trade shows reflect changing moods for 2002. (Trends).
March 1, 2002... The 2002 trade-show season began in January when SUPERnet and Photonics West hit Silicon Valley. Marketing budget cuts were evident in the selection of logo-laden giveaways. Last year's zoomy alien space guns made way for this year's ballpoint...

Nano-optics provides orders-of-magnitude economic improvements. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The primary barrier to broader adoption of optical systems has long been recognized as the unavailability of optical components that are densely integrated, reliable, easy to use, and cost-effective. The combination of nano-design and...

L-band operation for fiber-agnostic networks. (Online).
March 1, 2002... In today's marketplace, vendors need to be able to supply fiber-agnostic systems that allow very high capacities, while still allowing reach independence. Malor limitations to system capacities are seen in the form of nonlinear effects by using...

Component manufacture: Making the case for automation. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The demand for optical components that characterized much of 1999 and 2000 has shifted to an intense pressure to reduce manufacturing cost. Automation of critical test, measurement, inspection, and assembly processes is key to both supply and...

Role of next-generation metro core EDFAs in maximizing carrier ROI. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... First-generation metro core EDFAs were instrumental in extending the reach and enabling initial deployment of metro DWDM networks. These early EDFAs are now considered too inflexible for provisioning key revenue-producing services such as...

Reliability testing of passive components. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Like a corroded electrical terminal or poor solder joint in electronics, passive components can represent the weak link in a fiber-optic system. How well these devices transfer or route a signal without changing it determines their performance....

Semiconductor optical linear amplifier for multiwavelength banding applications. (Online).
March 1, 2002... Amplification of bands of wavelengths simultaneously is important in reducing the cost of amplification in many metro and long-haul applications. Key requirements are that the amplifier provides a fixed gain independent of the number of...

Evaluating tunable lasers and their applications. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... At a time when the industry was growing very rapidly, DWDM technology created difficulties in forecasting and supplying lasers with the correct wavelength, which meant missed revenue opportunities up and down the supply chain. As a consequence,...

Hybrid photonic integration. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Today's market requires full use of available technologies to begin to deliver an all-optical network. One such evolving technology is hybrid photonic integration, which may become increasingly important in the control of manufacturing costs...

Ethernet to the subscriber. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ethernet is poised to dominate the first mile networks that will deliver voice, video, and data services to both residential and business customers. Its superiority in the access network space is due to a combination of attributes: technology,...

Extending the output range of thermo-electric-cooler controller-power supplies. (Online).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... With the recent introduction of higher-power erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and Raman amplifiers, more thermo-electric cooling is needed for the solid-state lasers used in communications systems. One solution is to use multiple thermoelectric...

Passive universal depolarizer spurs Raman revolution: With breakthroughs in new 1400-nm pump and depolarizer technologies, the way is open to wider deployment of Raman products. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... Depolarizers have attracted a lot of attention in recent months because of their promising applications. Their deployment to date is restricted to niches because of their technical limitations. However, depolarizers have not yet reached their...

Pump lasers at 960 nm for the L-band: When compared to 980-and 1480-nm pumps, 960-nm pump-laser modules provide several benefits. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... Engineers face stiff challenges when designing L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). To compensate for a reduced erbium ion emission cross section, more pump power and longer erbium-doped fiber (EDF) lengths that incorporate higher...

High-power 980-nm pumps for high-power amplifiers: New optically pumped semiconductor lasers offer the performance and economic benefits required for high-power fiber amplifiers. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... A novel semiconductor-based laser design known as an optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) provides >500 mW of operating output from a singlemode fiber at a nominal wavelength of 980 nm. The OPSL is a special class of vertical-cavity...

Improving wavelength stability in ultra-dense WDM systems. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... Optical PLL technology increases the stability and wavelength accuracy of commercial semiconductor lasers, enabling 12.5-GHz channel spacing of OC-192 signals The growth in Internet users and bandwidth-rich Web applications is increasing...

Lifting the lid off component integration: ICs revolutionized the chip industry, but optical ICs are creating opportunities for design improvement at each new level of complexity. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... Heated debate about integration in the optical-components industry continues, despite the technology advancements in recent years. Many companies argue that integration is the way forward. Integration, after all, was the path chosen by the...

Design, optimization of planar lightwave circuits using CAD tools: Flexible design interface and complete simulation capabilities are keys in practical design processes. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... Driven by the pervasive influence of the Internet and other bandwidth-demanding applications, the telecommunications industry is striving to deliver greater information-carrying capacity. DWDM is one of the few technologies with the potential...

Electromagnetic actuation holds promise for all-optical switches: Technology borrowed from disk-drive development could produce more reliable MEMS devices. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... The relentless growth of telecommunications traffic is exceeding that of microprocessor performance, which Moore's Law tells us doubles every 18 months or so. Nowhere are we made more painfully aware of this than when confronted with the...

All-optical wavelength conversion: the next challenge; Fast wavelength-tunable all-optical wavelength converters meet the demand for optical crossconnects in next-generation WDM networks. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... Optical crossconnects for DWDM communications are being developed based on currently available optical-switching technologies. These crossconnects, however, will only offer the full potential of DWDM optical networking when they integrate...

Bridging the optical enterprise and Internet core: VCSEL transceivers gain momentum at a 10-Gbit/sec convergence point for Ethernet, SONET, and Fibre Channel. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... The optical communications industry is poised to reap the benefits of physical layer data-rate convergence now that Ethernet and Fibre Channel can scale to 10 Gbits/sec. With the development of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) standard, the...

Meeting future growth and service requirement with high-performance, widely tunable lasers: Tunable lasers enable novel network architectures with dynamic functionality. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... WDM technology, featuring high-channel-count capability, is a reliable and economical means to scale telecommunications network capacity to meet ever-increasing demands. However, the sole use of fixed-wavelength lasers results in logistical and...

Measuring 'true' performance of advanced FEC solutions: Challenges emerge as component vendors develop forward error correction devices that exceed the initial ITU-T standard. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... As carriers move to faster and more complex fiber-optic networks, problems can arise because of the inherent limitations of fiber. Impairments such as polarization-mode dispersion (PMD), chromatic dispersion, fiber nonlinear effects, and...

Overview of dynamic gain-flattening technologies. (Special Reports: Passive & Active Components).
March 1, 2002... All-fiber acousto-optic tunable-filter technology provides significant advantages in insertion loss, spectral continuity, wavelength, and attenuation control. The economics of DWDM systems continue to drive fierce innovation in many key...

Electrical and photonic switching: Finding the right balance; Minimizing optical-electrical-optical conversions can save money and space, but electronics are still necessary. (Feature).
March 1, 2002... Economic efficiencies in the backbone network historically have been achieved by substituting photonics for electronics. This trend started with substituting optical amplifiers for regenerators, which were required every 40-80 km. The reach...

Ethernet services: Overlay or integrate? Providers must carefully weigh economic and technical factors in deciding which approach is more beneficial for their network. (Feature).
March 1, 2002... It's clear that Ethernet services offer providers a cost-effective way to increase revenues by meeting customer demand for services that are flexible, low-cost, and scalable. The question is, what's the best way to deploy these services? Should...

Changing the numbers game: Market reports missed the downturn. Can they help you survive until the recovery? (Researching the Researchers).
March 1, 2002... Independent market researchers play a role in almost every industry, identifying and analyzing market opportunities, sizing up the players, and forecasting market potential. How this data is digested and used by industry participants depends on...

Transparency at the edge: Where the path to all-optical begins; Transparent metro DWDM architectures that offer bit-rate and protocol independence give service providers a competitive edge. (All-Optical Vs. OEO Switching).
March 1, 2002... Out with the old and in with the new"--a familiar saying to anyone in business or technology. From the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, the rush to embrace the latest, best, and most advanced has enabled disruptive technologies to...