Lightwave articles from November 2004

Lightwave archives from November 2004

LX4 vendors fight back.
November 1, 2004... In response to the attention the in-process 10GBase-LRM serial-transceiver/transponder standard has generated, vendors with modules based on the existing 10GBase-LX4 approach have launched a trade group aimed at convincing both systems vendors...

Test vendors revel in FTTP opportunity.(Technology)
November 1, 2004... No one is more excited about the recent buzz surrounding the deployment of fiber to the premises (FTTP) technology than test equipment vendors, which see a very real opportunity to equip tens of thousands of technicians with portable devices...

Photonic switches in the worldwide National Research and Education Networks.
November 1, 2004... Scientific applications such as supercomputing and bioinformatics can benefit from high-capacity transport between a limited number of locations. This need for high-capacity internetworking is driving the growth of National Research and...

Avici Systems.(North America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Avici Systems (North Billerica, MA) signed a five-year extension to its agreement to supply AT&T (Bedminster, NJ) with its TSR core routers, continuing a business relationship that has existed since 2000. The new purchase agreement enables AT&T...

National Institute of Standards and Technology.(contract with OFS Laboratories)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST--Washington, DC), through its Advanced Technology Program (ATP), agreed to provide up to $2 million to OFS Laboratories to support the development of new processes for manufacturing...

Photonic Bridges.(North America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Photonic Bridges (Basking Ridge, NJ, and Shanghai) selected Silicon Laboratories' Si5100 OC-48 transceiver and Si5310 precision clock multiplier for its next-generation SON ET/SDH multiservice transport platforms. The systems include the...

Midcontinent Communications.(North America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Midcontinent Communications (Sioux City, SD), a carrier's carrier and regional service provider in North and South Dakota, built a regional optical network capable of transporting data and video traffic based on next-generation SONET technology...

Corning Cable Systems.(North America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Danbury Place in Sunnyvale, CA, is the first Coming Connected Community. Corning Cable Systems (Hickory, NC) developed the Corning Connected Community program to bring the benefits of optical fiber to homeowners everywhere by assisting...

A new fiber to the premises (FTTP) network will use Wave7 Optics (Alpharetta, GA) point-to-multipoint Ethernet FTTP systems to connect 1,000 residential and business customers in Ft. Loramie, OH, by mid-next year.(North America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... A new fiber to the premises (FTTP) network will use Wave7 Optics (Alpharetta, CA) point-to-multipoint Ethernet FTTP systems to connect 1,000 residential and business customers in Ft. Loramie, OH, by mid-next year. Goldstar Communications, LLC,...

Corvis (Columbia, MD) changed its name to Broadwing Corp. to reflect the company's primary focus as a supplier of voice-, data-, and media-network services to enterprises, carriers, and U.S. government agencies.(North America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Corvis (Columbia, MD) changed its name to Broadwing Corp. to reflect the company's primary focus as a supplier of voice-, data-, and media-network services to enterprises, carriers, and U.S. government agencies. The company will continue to...

OneNet.(contract with Cisco Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Oklahoma's telecommunications and information network for education and government, OneNet is deploying the Cisco Systems ONS 15454 multiservice transport platform to increase network capacity. The expansion will allow OneNet to converge its...

France Telecom.(Hotpick)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... France Telecom (Paris) announced plans to invest 250 million euros over three years, starting next year, to deploy 300,000 km of fiber-optic infrastructure, building-out its 2-million-km fiber network. The build-out will focus on 2,000 business...

Fiber Optic Communities of the United States.(North America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The Fiber Optic Communities of the United States (FOCUS), a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Washington DC, has been established by a group of fiber to the premises communities to educate consumers on the benefits of optical access...

Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) announced a contract with KPN (Hilversum, Netherlands) to deploy one of Europe's first networks using IP/MPLS technology.(Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) announced a contract with KPN (Hilversum, Netherlands) to deploy one of Europe's first networks using IP/MPLS technology. The three-year agreement includes network design, equipment supply, and deployment...

Lumentis (Stockholm) announced the signing of a frame agreement, worth at least $2 million, extending its relationship with Internet and telecom service provider IP-Only Telecommunication (Uppsala, Sweden).(Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Lumentis (Stockholm) announced the signing of a frame agreement, worth at least $2 million, extending its relationship with Internet and telecom service provider IP-Only Telecommunication (Uppsala, Sweden). IP-Only has chosen Lumentis equipment...

CoreOptics.(Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... CoreOptics (Nuremberg, Germany), designer and manufacturer of 40- and 10Gbit/sec optical-networking subsystems, achieved quality management certification in accordance with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2000...

Neos Networks (Reading, UK), the telecommunications arm of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group, has deployed next-generation 10-Gbit/sec SDH equipment from Turin Networks (Petaluma, CA) to enhance and extend Ethernet over its national networks.(Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Neos Networks (Reading, UK), the telecommunications arm of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group, has deployed next-generation 10-Gbit/sec SDH equipment from Turin Networks (Petaluma, CA) to enhance and extend Ethernet over its national...

ADVA Optical Networking (Martinsried/ Munich, Germany) completed its acquisition of Metro Packet Systems, a company with expertise in carrier class Ethernet technology.(Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ADVA Optical Networking (Martinsried/ Munich, Germany) completed its acquisition of Metro Packet Systems, a company with expertise in carrier class Ethernet technology. Metro Packet Systems played an important role in the development of ADVA's...

High-speed VOA arrays enable novel applications.(www.lightwaveonline.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... System designers currently use a variety of electrically actuated optomechanical variable optical attenuators (VOAs) to control optical power levels in front of receivers and amplifiers and for channel equalization. As optical transport systems...

Automated connector processing tackles FTTP connectors.(www.lightwaveonline.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... With fiber to the premises (FTTP) ramping up in the United States and around the world, fiber-optic-connector usage is predicted to soar. Automation of the connector termination process's key "pinch points," where most of the yield fallout...

China Telecom (Beijing) selected long-haul equipment from Nortel Networks (Brampton, Ontario) to expand its networks across southern and eastern China.(Asia)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... China Telecom (Beijing) selected long-haul equipment from Nortel Networks (Brampton, Ontario) to expand its networks across southern and eastern China. The additional network capacity will enable the carrier to offer advanced IP data services....

StockerYale (Salem, NH) signed a Mutual Distributorship and Product Development Agreement for specialty optical fiber with Mitsubishi Cable Industries (Tokyo).(Asia)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... StockerYale (Salem, NH) signed a Mutual Distributorship and Product Development Agreement for specialty optical fiber with Mitsubishi Cable Industries (Tokyo). Under the agreement, Mitsubishi will distribute select StockerYale products into the...

Valdor Fiber Optics (Hayward, CA) entered into an equity agreement with the shareholders of Shanghai OPEL Technologies (Opeltech--Shanghai), whereby Valdor will have the right to acquire up to 100% of the shares of Opeltech.(Asia)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Valdor Fiber Optics (Hayward, CA) entered into an equity agreement with the shareholders of Shanghai OPEL Technologies (Opeltech--Shanghai), whereby Valdor will have the right to acquire up to 100% of the shares of Opeltech. An ISO...

Huawei-3Com Technology (Hong Kong and Hangzhou, China), a joint venture company established by Huawei Technologies and 3Com, selected the NP-1c 10-Gbit/sec network processor from EZchip Technologies (Yokneam, Israel).(Asia)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Huawei-3Com Technology (Hong Kong and Hangzhou, China), a joint venture company established by Huawei Technologies and 3Com, selected the NP-1c 10-Gbit/sec network processor from EZchip Technologies (Yokneam, Israel) for its midrange and...

A matter of policy.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... With Election Day in the United States arriving this month, and a spate of recent rulings from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state regulatory agencies preceding it, now is a good time to consider the effect of policy on...

MEMS is gearing up for the ROADMs ahead.(Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers)
November 1, 2004... The worst of the telecommunications shakeout may be over, but carriers have not returned to the level of network investment, or revenues, of just a few years ago. While capital has dwindled, technology has continued to advance. Network elements...

EDC-based transceiver standard wrestles with distance issues.(Tech Trends)
November 1, 2004... Today's enterprise networks have a large installed base of legacy 62.5-[micro]m multimode fiber (MMF) with link lengths up to 300 m that currently support 1-Gbit/sec transmission. Increased data traffic is driving the need to upgrade those...

IEC addresses fibers, components, systems.(Standards Watch)
November 1, 2004... IEC Technical Committee TC86 and its subcommittees met in Chester, UK, last May. This meeting resulted in several conclusions. Fiber issues. Determined first was a specification for a new singlemode-fiber cable covering the 1310-1625nm...

L-band satellite SR transmitters.(Subsystems)
November 1, 2004... The 1310-nm 50-ohm 3029 and 75-ohm 3034 L-band satellite intra-facility-link transmitters are for short-distance applications up to 2 km. They incorporate manual gain control on the front panel, which allows for optimized RF gain. The links...

Wavelength-selective switch module.(Subsystems)
November 1, 2004... For building flexible metro reconfigurable add/ drop multiplexers (ROADMs) in a different form factor, the WSS 5400 10-port 100-GHz wavelength-selective switch directs each input wavelength to any one of nine output ports and integrates in a...

Widely tunable transponder with ODC.(Subsystems)
November 1, 2004... The Glassic FLTT-ULH 10-Gbit/sec 300-pin widely tunable transponder with an integrated optical dispersion compensator yields more than [+ or -] 2,500-psec/nm dispersion tolerance and exhibits a mild optical signal-to-noise-ratio penalty over...

Marconi, CoreOptics partner on MLSE-based engine.(Product Profile)(Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimator)
November 1, 2004... At the recent European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), CoreOptics (Nuremberg, Germany) and lead customer Marconi Corp. plc (Coventry, UK) unveiled a jointly developed adaptive distortion-tolerant transponder that increases a...

OC-48/192 'pre-groom' SONET transport platform.(Systems)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Now able to "pre-groom" both packet and TDM broadband and wideband traffic at the edge, the VLX2020 OC-48/ 192 SONET transport platform provides both a small-office digital-crossconnect system and an edge Ethernet aggregation platform in a...

Optical-electrical Ethernet conversion system.(Systems)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... For delivering intelligent Ethernet over fiber, the CC-411 system converts optical Ethernet to electrical Ethernet at the customer premises and serves as a demarcation point or interface between the service-provider network and customer...

Pole/ground-mount FTTX enclosures.(Installation)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... For FTTX powering applications, the PMR-S2 pole-mount enclosure with 14 RUs in a 19-inch rack and GMR-S2 ground-mount enclosure system with 13 RUs in a 19-inch rack can house rack-mount last mile core processors, a 300-W power supply, and GXL...

Color-coded lab splices.(Installation)(Fiber Instrument Sales Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Color-coded versions of the Elastomeric Lab Splice provide a convenient identification system when splicing multiple fiber-optic cables as well as a quick, easy way to connect bare fiber. The splice can be disassembled and reused hundreds of...

Portable metro, FTTH OTDR module.(Test Equipment)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... For metro and fiber to the home deployments, the Micro OTDR module allows service providers to verify fiber networks during construction or troubleshoot during the maintenance phase. With the evolution of FTTX and metro/access networks toward...

Fibre Channel 2.125G link/BER tester.(Test Equipment)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The portable ConnTech 2000 FC2 Fibre Channel (FC) link and bit-error-ratio tester operates at 2.125 Gbits/sec and provides point-to-point physical layer testing of double-rate FC circuits supporting SANs. FC frame generation and primitive...

72-fiber MT polymer ferrule.(Components)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The MT polymer ferrule terminates up to 72 fibers configured by stacking six 12-fiber ribbons and provides 4.5 fibers/ [mm.sup.2] of interconnect space, nearly quadrupling the density of the 24-fiber ferrule. The greater packaging density...

SFP high-density multiport cages.(Components)(small-form-factor-pluggable)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... For switches, routers, high-end servers, and storage, the small-form-factor-pluggable (SFP) Ganged Cages save more printed-circuit-board real estate in belly-to-belly configurations and come in four press-fit versions: 1x2, 1x4, 1x5, and 1x6....

B/G/EPON FTTX PLC triplexer transceiver.(Components)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... For BPON, GPON, and EPON FTTX passive optical networks, the planar-lightwave-circuit (PLC)-based triplexer transceiver supports ITU-T FSAN and IEEE 802.ah applicable standards for triple-play applications. Developed in cooperation with Samsung...

Promise of ATM-grade IP network convergence.(Applications: innovative component, subsystem, system, and network design examples and alternatives)
November 1, 2004... The migration from legacy to IP/MPLS networks is causing the telecommunications industry to reach a major inflection point. Investments by service providers in ATM and Frame Relay (FR) networks, which still support profitable data services,...

SBC communications' triple play: fiber to the neighborhood watch.(Case By Case)
November 1, 2004... SBC Communications will invest $4 billion-$6 billion over a five-year period to push fiber deeper into customers' neighborhoods throughout the 13-state region the carrier serves. A rollout that hinges on a favorable regulatory and economic...

ECOC speakers, exhibits highlight European FTTP.(Industry: opportunities, market intelligence, and forecasts to improve your bottom line)(European Conference on Optical Communications)(fiber to the premises)
November 1, 2004... While prevailing wisdom suggests that Asia and the United States represent the two main markets for fiber to the premises (FTTP) equipment, vendors on and off the show floor at September's European Conference on Optical Communications in...

DSL vs. PON: is the race for the last mile already won?(Analyst Corner)(Passive Optical Network)(Digital subscriber line)
November 1, 2004... DSL technology appears to be winning over PON as the broadband access solution of choice, which is inhibiting growth in PON adoption. Is DSL's growing traction just a short-term phenomenon, a stopgap for service providers planning mass PON...

FIS training specialist.(Ask Bruno)
November 1, 2004... Q When troubleshooting fiber optic systems, I spend a lot of time inspecting connector endfaces. What can you suggest to speed things along? A For one thing, use a microscope with sufficient magnification. Although 100X may be OK for...

Calendar.(Industry)(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... November 1-5 Fiber Optics Installation & Splicing Certificate Course. In Mississauga, Canada, by Mississauga Training Consultants. Tel: 905-785-8012, email: mrfiber@canada.com, Website: www.fiberoptictraining.com. 7-11 Glass & Optical...

The light side.(Industry)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... "The next new networking initiative? Hah, no, Patriots to the Super Bowl."

Design and test.(Lightwave Communications Directory)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... JDS UNIPHASE 1768 Automation Parkway, San Jose, CA 95131 PH: 408 546-5000, FX: 408 546-4300, WEB: www.jdsuniphase.com Designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes a range of products for the fiber-optic communications market....

Distributors.(Lightwave Communications Directory)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... LWS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. 601 Route 206, Suite 26-407, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 PH: 908-359-4632, FX: 908-359-2169, EMAIL: info@lwstech.com, WEB: http://www.lwstech.com Supplier for fiber optical communication industry....

Optical-network hardware, PON markets rising.(Passive Optical Network)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Worldwide optical-network (ON) hardware revenue increased 3% between the first and second quarters of this year, with slow growth projected through 2007, according to Infonetics Research's (San Jose, CA) quarterly report, "Optical Network...

Service providers are driving US FTTP growth.(Market Watch)(Fiber To The Premises)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... In its new report, "Fiber to the Premises in the United States: The Promise of Universal Broadband Access," KMI Research (Providence) forecasts that the total FTTP market for equipment, cable, and apparatus will net $3.2 billion in 2009 and...

Asian carriers struggle to control operating costs.(Market Watch)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Operating-expenditure (opex) growth is now outpacing revenue growth among key Asian service providers, reveals a new report from MWL Consulting (Thailand). For the first six months of this year, revenue growth for 23 carriers amounted to 13%,...