Lightwave articles from May 2002

Lightwave archives from May 2002

New MSAs target modules and components. (Technology).
May 1, 2002... In an environment where standards development can't keep pace with technology advances, multisource agreements (MSAs) provide an alternative. The popularity of these de facto standards has been demonstrated over the past few months with the...

China Mobile chooses France Telecom for first interconnection deal. (Networks).
May 1, 2002... The 3GSM Congress in Cannes in February saw a shift to a "lets get down to business" attitude from operators, which was best exemplified by France Telecom's "groundbreaking" voice interconnection agreement. China Mobile Communications, one of...

For tunability, is less more? (Technology).
May 1, 2002... Despite their promises of cost efficiencies, inventory reduction, line-card sparing, and remote provisioning, manufacturers of tunable lasers are grappling with delayed fielding of their products caused by the slowing economy. Nevertheless,...

DGEs make big gains at OFC. (Technology).
May 1, 2002... Dynamic gain equalizers (DGEs) came out en masse at the 2002 Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in Anaheim in March. Among the companies that unveiled DGE standalone devices or integrated modules at the show were Avanex, CiDRA,...

Hot off the press. (Industry Update).(American Fiber Systems Inc. )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... American Fiber Systems Inc. (AFS-Rochester, NY) has announced that its Nashville, TN, dark fiber network is now operational. The 50-mile AFS ring winds through Nashville's metropolitan area and surrounding communities connecting key points of...

Alcatel Optronics. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Alcatel Optronics (Paris), CyOptics Inc. (Waltham, MA), and Oki Electric Industry Co. (Tokyo), all of whom play in the electro-absorption (EA) domain, have launched a joint effort to define a multisource agreement (MSA) for 40-Gbit/sec EA...

New World Network. (North America).(Arcos fiber optic cable network completed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ARCOS, a fiber-optic-cable network owned by New World Network (Miami), has been completed and is now commercially available. The ARCOS ring links 24 landing points in 15 countries within South, Central, and North America and extends for a total...

FPL FiberNet LLC. (North America).(contract with Centennial Florida Switch Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... FPL FiberNet LLC (Miami), a wholesaler of dark fiber and capacity in Florida's major metropolitan areas, has announced the signing of a 20-year agreement with Centennial Florida switch Corp., a subsidiary of Centennial Communications Corp....

Tylite Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tylite Inc. (Liberty Lake, WA), in partnership with Central Telecom East Inc. (Yakima, WA), has been awarded the WAN equipment project for Central Valley School District (CVSD) #356, spokane County, WA. The initial project phase of five sites...

DixieNet Communications. (North America).(contract with Metro-Optix)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DixieNet Communications, a Ripley, MS-based telephone company, and Metro-Optix (Santa Clara, CA) have announced a multimillion-dollar agreement to deploy Metro-Optix's Citystream bandwidth managers in DixieNet's fiber-optic network. Metro-Optix...

Xindium Technologies Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Xindium Technologies Inc. (Champaign, IL), an early-stage optoelectronic IC manufacturer, has revealed plans to enter the market for high-frequency/high-bit-rate semiconductor digital- and optical-component devices. Founded in February 2001...

T-Networks Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... T-Networks Inc. (Allentown, PA) has announced its entry into the optoelectronics modulator market. The company recently captured indium phosphide-based modulator design wins with established optical equipment manufacturers in key market...

Inplane Photonics. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Leading scientists in the optical-networking field have established Inplane Photonics (South Plainfield, NJ), a developer and manufacturer of small, low-cost integrated optical components (IOCs) and platforms. Inplane is developing advanced...

Agere Systems. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Agere Systems (Allentown, PA) and Nortel Networks (Ottawa, Ontario) have announced what they claim is the industry's first multisource agreement to establish standards for surface-mount 10-Gbit/sec receivers. The companies will independently...

Clarendon Photonics Inc. (North America).(joint development effort with Micron Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Through a joint development program launched last August, Clarendon Photonics Inc. (Newton, MA), supplier of integrated photonic components, and Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID), provider of memory semiconductor products, have announced the...

Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) has finalized qualification of OMM Inc.'s (San Diego) micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) for its Optisphere MTS Multi-Haul DWDM product line. Siemens currently uses OMM's...

White Rock Networks. (North America).(contract with ADC Fiber Optics)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... White Rock Networks (Richardson, TX), provider of next-generation optical transport systems for the local metro transport market, has selected ADC (Eden Prairie, MN) as a preferred service provider. ADC will provide complete engineering,...

Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. (MFN-New York) has expanded its U.S. relationship with Electronic Arts (Redwood City, CA) to provide fiber-optic infrastructure, collocation services, and Internet connectivity to support Electronic Arts' EA.com...

Spectra-Physics. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Spectra-Physics (Mountain View, CA) and NP Photonics Inc. (Tucson, AZ) have entered into a joint product development agreement to produce highly miniaturized, optical-fiber-based amplifiers for telecommunications applications. The multiyear...

Calient Networks. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Network-management software provider Clear (Chicago) has announced a solution partnership with Calient Networks (San Jose, CA), manufacturer of intelligent photonic-switching systems. Clear's flagship product, Clearview, will allow carriers to...

Network Photonics Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Network Photonics Inc. (Boulder, Ca), an all-optical wavelength-switching subsystems provider, has entered into a supply agreement with Fairchild Semiconductor (South Portland, ME), whereby Fairchild will fabricate one-dimensional...

Silicon Light Machines. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Silicon Light Machines (SLM--Sunnyvale, CA), an optical subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor, has entered into a manufacturing agreement with Flextronics Photonics (Singapore), whereby Flextronics will provide packaging design services and...

Olympus Integrated Technologies America Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Olympus Integrated Technologies America Inc. (San Jose, CA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., (Tokyo) has announced the formation of the Olympus Partnership Development Group to enhance the success of partner companies...

Innovance Networks. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Innovance Networks (Ottawa, Ontario, and Piscataway, NJ) has closed its Series B financing, raising over $55 million in venture capital from both existing and new investors. JDS Uniphase and Corning participated in the financing as key industry...

Ocean Design Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Ocean Design Inc. (ODI-Ormond Beach, FL), a subsea fiber-optic and electrical connectivity company, has formed a strategic partnership with Bank of America Capital Investors (BACI), a $1.5-billion Bank of America investment arm. BACI has made a...

Wave7 Optics Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Wave7 Optics Inc. (Alpharetta, GA), developer of optical access equipment for the fiber-to-the-home and-business (FTTX) market, has raised a second round of funding totaling $23 million, bringing the company's total funds raised to $32 million....

Transparent Networks Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Transparent Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, CA), developer of intelligent photonic-switching systems, has completed $20 million in second-round venture funding, bringing the total raised by the company to $30.2 million since its inception in June...

Silicon Access Networks. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Silicon Access Networks (San Jose, CA) has secured $39 million in its fourth round of funding, led by Soros Private Equity Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. New investors included Pilgrim Baxter, Van Wagoner Capital Management, Parker...

Caspian Networks Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Caspian Networks Inc. (San Jose) has secured $120 million in fourth-round financing, bringing total investment in the company to more than a quarter-billion dollars ($262 million). The new round, expected to be the company's final private...

Optigain Inc. (North America).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Optigain Inc. (Peace Dale, RI), developer, manufacturer, and supplier of erbiumdoped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and Raman pump modules, has been re-capitalized and received new funding that will enable the company to fully support its current...

Terremark Worldwide Inc. (South America).(partnership agreement with Sao Paulo's Research Foundation FAPESP)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Terremark Worldwide Inc. (Miami) has signed a binding partnership agreement with FAPESP--the State of Sao Paulo's (Brazil) Research Foundation--to operate and manage Brazil's premier network access point (NAP), the only peering point in that...

British Telecommunications plc. (Europe).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... British Telecommunications plc (BT--London) and Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) have successfully implemented a high-capacity optical network designed to support BT'S growing international requirements and expansion into the provisioning...

Nextrom Technologies. (Europe).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Nextrom Technologies (Old Lyme, CT) has acquired Sysmelec SA's (Gals, Switzerland) activities and expertise in the automation of fiber-optic processing, handling, and attachment. The resultant company, Nextrom Photonics SA, will combine...

Deutsche Telekom AG. (Europe).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Deutsche Telekom AG (Bonn, Germany) has signed a frame agreement with Ericsson SpA (Rome) to integrate IP routers based on Juniper Networks' (Sunnyvale, CA) M-series platform for its global IP backbone. Under the contract, Ericsson will deploy...

ADVA Optical Networking. (Europe).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ADVA Optical Networking (Munich, Germany, and Ramsey, NJ) has announced that a total of 10 new carrier and service-provider customers have implemented Siemens' metro optical-networking solutions, based on ADVA's Fiber Service Platform products,...

Opto Speed. (Europe).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Indium phosphide-based optoelectronic-component manufacturer Opto Speed (Mezzovico, Switzerland) has secured 20 million euros in its second round of funding, led by the Carlyle Group. Opto Speed will use the funds to open an office in the...

Luminous Networks. (Asia).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has certified Luminous Networks' (Cupertino, CA) PacketWave access platform for MANs. The certification enables Luminous to ship its voice/data optical access systems to the largest...

DenseLight Semiconductors. (Asia).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Singapore-based DenseLight Semiconductors, backed by international venture capital firm 3i Group, has secured a two-year R&D project worth several million dollars to further develop its proprietary technologies in photonics and high-speed...

Mitsui & Co. (Asia).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Mitsui & Co. (Tokyo), distributor of networking equipment, and Atoga Systems Inc. (Fremont, CA), developer of tunable metro DWDM systems, have entered into a strategic relationship agreement under which Mitsui & Co. will bring Atoga's Optical...

Lucent Technologies. (Asia).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) is providing Slovenske Telekomunikacie AS (Slovak Republic) with metro optical-networking equipment for its network. Under the contract, signed in January and valued at 5.5 million euros over two years,...

Lightscape Networks. (Africa * Middle East Australia).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ECI Telecom company Lightscape Networks (Petah Tikva, Israel) has signed a contract with Zhejiang unicorn, a subsidiary of China Unicom. Per the agreement, Lightscape Networks' XDM optical platforms will be deployed in the nodes of all existing...

Are things different today? (Editorial).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Stephen M. Hardy A couple of weeks spent wandering through a maze of conflicting numbers convinces me that the question of whether you believe in the fiber/capacity glut comes down to your perception of telecommunications history--and...

Surveillance, submarines, global politics. (Regulation & Policy).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Along-known selling point of fiber optics is that it either inhibits or prevents surveillance of communications. This particular aspect of fiber optics is now a line of political separation between the political aims of the European Union and...

Looking to the next 'hype cycle'. (Broadband).
May 1, 2002... What is a "hype cycle" you ask? According to Dave Pangrac, president and founder of Pangrac & Associates Consulting, it is a great way to track how an industry adopts technology in a rapidly changing environment. It also provides insight into...

Time for a new Telecom Act. (Wall Street & Finance).
May 1, 2002... We recently checked in with a vendor that we track because of progress the company was making with a couple of major carriers. Our general thinking was that in a tough climate, it may be hard to lift the fortunes of the likes of Lucent...

2002 is the year of the design win. (Analyst Corner).
May 1, 2002... With the U.S. economy looking better, many are asking if the telecommunications industry is on the verge of a recovery. At Strategies Unlimited, we expect that the overall market cannot recover until the carriers resolve their complicated...

CWDM moves toward standardization. (Standards Watch).
May 1, 2002... At the February 2001 meeting of the International Telecommunication Union's ITU-T Study Group 15, a definition of the term "coarse wavelength-division multiplexing" (CWDM) was considered for Recommendation G.671. Discussion also began on a...

Transponder manufacturers debate electronics. (Trends).
May 1, 2002... While the XFP 10-Gbit Small Form Factor Pluggable proponents celebrate the release of electronics from 10-Gbit/sec optical transponder/transceiver modules (see page 1), several transponder vendors say systems designers want modules to...

Interoute addresses North America's need for pan-European connectivity. (Networks).
May 1, 2002... Despite the perception of capacity gluts in several areas of today's optical telecommunications market, segments of the industry--along with bandwidth-hungry applications--are continuing to create demand. One such segment is the need for...

All eyes are on SuperComm 2002 as an industry barometer. (Trends).
May 1, 2002... The 2002 SuperComm conference and exhibition, to be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta from Sunday, June 2, through Thursday, June 6, may be more relevant now than at any time in its 15-year history, contends Jack Chalden,...

ATM's prognosis: will reductions in carrier capital spending shorten or prolong ATM's life expectancy? (Special Reports: SONET/SDH, ATM & IP).
May 1, 2002... Beleaguered budgets in a shaky economy have led to serious reductions in carriers' capital expenditures. Tightened spending patterns could accelerate the demise of ATM by driving carriers to seek newer, more efficient broadband switching...

Transitioning through uncertainty with multiservice provisioning: despite recent instability in the telecom world, shrewd network operators are saving costs by adopting multiservice provisioning platforms. (Special Reports: SONET/SDH, ATM & IP).
May 1, 2002... The year 2001 was marked by uncertainty in life, uncertainty with the economy, and never-before-seen uncertainty in the telecommunications industry. While we can't solve all the world's problems, we can examine how service providers might...

The marriage of optical switching and electronic routing: optical switching enables centralized routers to handle traffic at the terabit level with speed and efficiency. (Special Reports: SONET/SDH, ATM & IP).
May 1, 2002... The continuing growth of IP traffic and decrease in the cost per bit-mile of optical transmission have resulted in bottlenecks in the network. In the core, just as large optical-switching elements have started to appear to handle optical...

GMPLS, photonic service switching, and network's future: the question of layer integration for network operators is not 'whether' or 'how,' but 'to what extent' and 'when'. (Special Reports: SONET/SDH, ATM & IP).
May 1, 2002... Telecommunications service providers are under great pressure to improve the efficiency and flexibility of their networks. Demand for bandwidth and service is not diminishing, but customers are increasingly careful with the bottom line. Several...

What's preventing the convergence of voice and data? (Special Reports: SONET/SDH, ATM & IP).
May 1, 2002... A converged network serves as a platform for enhanced services by providing flexible and intelligent decision-making across multiple layers--so why aren't more carriers signing up? Converged architectures that support circuit-switched and...

Getting a new lease on light: with the bandwidth barons on shaky ground, 15-year IRUs on some cabeles could leave you and your customers in the dark. When does leasing make the most sense? (Business Intelligence: Bandwidth Leasing).
May 1, 2002... Riding the light on other carriers' networks involves a level of risk that is getting more complicated by the day. Telecommunications debt, declarations of bankruptcy, and operators shutting down portions of their networks have turned a...

OEO conversion still a 'fact of life' in telecom nets: re-mapping still requires OEO conversion to 'touch bits' for wavelength processing in today's metro and long-haul networks. (Technology & Profits: Electronics and Software for Optical Networks).
May 1, 2002... While the need for electronic components in access networks, LANs, or SANs is obvious, the case for metro and long-haul networks requires closer examination. In the last two years, there have been many attempts to transfer the core of the...

Software for intelligent optical equipment: transitioning to enhanced circuit-switched technologies will require a unifying, dynamic, optical control plane. (Technology & Profits: Electronics and Software for Optical Networks).
May 1, 2002... As the public-network infrastructure transitions from one dominated by circuit-switched technologies to one optimized to support packet-based data traffic, it is clear that underlying optical transport networks will also evolve to meet these...

Overcoming fiber impairments as industry moves to 40 Gbits/sec: optical signal processing technology eliminates operational issues associated with compensating chromatic and polarization-mode dispersion at high bit rates. (Feature).
May 1, 2002... Moving the optical industry to higher data rates raises significant network deployment and operational issues for carriers and service providers. As transmission speeds and fiber distances increase, fiber impairments such as chromatic...

Multigranular photonic switching in all-optical networks: along with its many benefits, multigranular networking can reap significant cost savings for the next several years. (Feature).
May 1, 2002... The advent of photonic networking will change the way optical transport networks are built and operated. In the past few years, DWDM transmission technology solved the capacity challenges faced by many carriers. It continues to advance with...

Integration of switching and transport at the optical layer: bringing together DWDM, switching, and SONET into one platform can lower capital costs and offer management simplicity. (Feature).
May 1, 2002... The optical transport network has evolved rapidly over the past several years with the introduction of new technologies like DWDM and optical switching. These technologies have been deployed alongside the continued rollout of SONET. With the...

Examining the 'all' in all-optical networking: problems in creating electronics-free all-optical networks are far from trivial and a long way from being solved. (Feature).
May 1, 2002... All-optical networking today is no more than an industry buzzword. The term is often used to refer to optical networks that actually include a great deal of electronic components. The question is, will telecommunications networks ever be...

Optimal 10-Gbit/sec interface standard simplifies component interconnect. (Online).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Internet traffic continues to increase at an incredible annual rate due to the growing number of Internet users and proliferation of bandwidth-hungry applications. As Internet traffic increases, faster links are provisioned in the core of the...

Deploying dynamic wavelength services in a SONET/SDH 'legacy' environment. (Online).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Some new service providers have had success in capturing the broadband services revenues using new infrastructures optimized for IP over Gigabit Ethernet. Established service providers understand the impact of these early successes and are...

Affordable, high-speed Ethernet solutions to bridge the enterprise and the metro. (Online).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Based on today's circumstances in the enterprise, core transport network, and metro/access network, viable alternatives can create an affordable bridge between the high-speed Ethernet technologies evolving from the enterprise and the high-speed...

Challenges and opportunities for using GMPLS in TDM networks. (Online).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) provides a clear path for the TDM operators to migrate toward supporting other traffic types such as IP. This migration is a gradual process and cannot disrupt existing services. For better revenue generation, GMPLS's...

Integrating Ethernet and optical technologies: delivering true optical Ethernet for the next-gen metro network. (Online).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... To provide the economic benefits of Ethernet and the scalability required in the metro core, providers need to look at next-generation solutions that integrate carrier-class Ethernet with DWDM on the same platform, delivering true optical...

Power meter. (Test Equipment).(New Focus' product)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The high-dynamic-range (HDR) power meter is specifically designed to take advantage of the 100-nm/sec sweep speeds of the Model 6528 swept-wavelength laser. The power meter responds rapidly and with sensitivity over a wide wavelength range...

Product diversification is key to success in FBG market. (Tech Trends).
May 1, 2002... A popular misconception of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is that they are an emerging technology, when, in fact, they have been shipping since 1997. A key component in WDM pump modules, particularly at 980 and 1480 nm, FBGs have seen their WDM...

Lumentis touts 'un-amplified' metro DWDM system. (Systems).(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... Stockholm-based Lumentis AB recently unveiled its Mentis DWDM system featuring a unique nodal architecture that increases its tolerance to optical loss, rendering amplification "a moot point," contends CEO Anders Lundberg. The company is not...

Sabeus unveils: 'Cold Writing' technique. (Fiber Products & Technology: Tech Trends).
May 1, 2002... Startup Sabeus Photonics Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) has recently unveiled plans for a line of fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based, high-concept optical devices--"designed to do new things in new ways, which required a fundamental rethinking of the...

Digital-frequency locking system. (Test Equipment).(EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering's DFL-5720)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... The DFL-5720 digital-frequency locking system enables the integration of wavelength lockers with frequency-tuning devices such as tunable lasers. The system automatically or manually locks the frequency of a laser source to a reference optical...

Multichannel meters. (Test Equipment).(JDS Uniphase's RX3 series)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... The RX3 series multichannel meters, which measure insertion loss and backreflection for single-fiber connectors as well as multifiber-ribbon connectors, have added two features: three-laser wavelength testing and a 10-mm indium gallium arsenide...

Raman-ready long-haul fiber. (Components).(the TrueWave Reach fiber)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... OFS, Norcross, GA, FOR FREE DATA ENTER NO. 305 AT WWW.ONLINECENTER.TO/LW The TrueWave Reach fiber is designed to meet current erbium-doped fiber-amplifier and emerging Raman optical system needs with the broadest available spectral...

Broadband erbium-doped fiber. (Components).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Said to provide up to 50% more bandwidth, a new broadband erbium-doped fiber based on a newly developed compact oxide glass requires significantly less space, enabling more compact designs for amplifiers and telecommunications equipment. The...

Dynamic gain equalizer. (Components).(Dowslake Microsystems' POP1O2O SmartDGE)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... Built on the company's Programmable Optical Processor (POP) platform and powered by its Simple Subsystem Management Protocol, the POP1O2O SmartDGE dynamic gain equalizer (OGE) allows optical systems vendors to automatically manage and control...

ATM software. (Systems & Subsystems).(Alidian Networks' ATM Service Intelligence)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ATM Service Intelligence (ASI) software enables the company's Optical Service Node (OSN) family to perform virtual-path multiplexing to support service aggregation, rate control, and quality of service--all on a per-port or per-connection...

Variable-gain EDFA series. (Systems & Subsystems).(Nortel Networks' MGMFV-1 variable-gain erbium-doped fiber amplifier)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... The MGMFV-1 variable-gain erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) series is designed to deal with the increasingly dynamic nature of the metro-networking environment, offering more flexibility through its intelligent remote provisioning...

Add/drop multiplexer. (Systems & Subsystems).(Ciena's WavelengthDirector)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... The WavelengthDirector optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) allows carriers the flexibility of software provisioning and can add and drop wavelengths with single-channel granularity along network routes. It is based on next-generation optical...

80-channel switch. (Systems & Subsystems).(Integrated Micromachines IMX-80)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... An 80-channel all-optical switch for long-haul and metro-area, video, and voice optical communications, IMX-80 is designed for integration by system manufacturers with their optical-electrical-optical crossconnect to form what the company calls...

Fiber distribution panels. (Installation).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Designed to help telecommunications service providers optimize vertical rack space, the 144-port F23 fiber distribution panel needs just 6 inches of rack space for patch-only off-frame splicing applications and 8 inches for patch and splice...

Keyed Interconnect System. (Installation).(3M Volition VF-45)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Volition VF-45 Keyed Interconnect System, in conjunction with the Volition fiber-optic LAN cabling system, can provide controlled access of networks by using a keyed plug that mates to a matched keyed socket and color-coded bezel. Other...

LD characterization system. (Design and Manufacturing).
May 1, 2002... Designed for high-throughput characterization of laser diodes (LDs), the automated LD characterization system (ALDCS) combines a machine vision guided pick-and-place robot for part loading/unloading with a variety of optional characterization...

Optical link design software. (Design and Manufacturing).(RSoft Design Group Inc's LinkSIM Version 3.2)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... The LinkSIM Version 3.2 optical communications system design software enhancements include a new physics-based erbium-doped fiber-amplifier (EDFA) model, dispersion maps, and upgraded layout features. The EDPA model provides a variety of pump...