Lightwave articles from November 2007

Lightwave archives from November 2007

FTTD can be cost effective, industry insiders say.(INDUSTRY)
November 1, 2007... Fiber to the desktop (FTTD) has always been a Holy Grail for fiber manufacturers, but it remains a niche application, largely due to fiber's perceived high cost. But network installers should not shy away from fiber, says TIA's Fiber Optic LAN...

Intelligent optical layer improves broadband disaster recovery.(TECHNOLOGY)
November 1, 2007... An unforeseen power failure stretches from the U.S. Northeast to the Midwest, stressing the limits of existing government and enterprise disaster recovery plans. A powerful earthquake off the coast of Taiwan disrupts voice, Internet, and...

Choices determine expansion of FTTP to multiple-dwelling units.(APPLICATIONS)
November 1, 2007... To date FTTH roll-outs have focused on single-family homes--but multiple-dwelling units (MDUs) represent a large market segment. Roughly 20% of the potential FTTH customers live in MDUs in the U.S. For service providers, this is a big part...

Neuf Cegetel (www.neufcegetel.fr), a French alternative service provider, has selected Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) to deploy a GPON for very high-speed services.(HOTPICK)
November 1, 2007... Neuf Cegetel (www.neufcegetel.fr), a French alternative service provider, has selected Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) to deploy a GPON for very high-speed services. Alcatel-Lucent will also be responsible for project management,...

BTI Photonic Systems (www.btiphotonics.com), supplier of packet optical edge networking equipment for the delivery of gigabit services, has changed its company name to BTI Systems.(north america)
November 1, 2007... BTI Photonic Systems (www.btiphotonics.com), supplier of packet optical edge networking equipment for the delivery of gigabit services, has changed its company name to BTI Systems. The company is also opening a design center in Marlborough, MA,...

Standards development and technical planning organization ATIS (www.atis.org) has formed an Optical Access Network Subcommittee (OAN) to develop and maintain standards, implementation agreements, and technical reports for systems and associated interfaces for optical access to telecommunications networks such as GPONs.(north america)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Standards development and technical planning organization ATIS (www.atis.org) has formed an Optical Access Network Subcommittee (OAN) to develop and maintain standards, implementation agreements, and technical reports for systems and associated...

Wave7 Optics (www.wave7optics.com) announced a string of new customers, including the Tullahoma (Tennessee) Utilities Board, Orlando Business Telephone Services and its sister company Orlando Telephone Co.(north america)
November 1, 2007... Wave7 Optics (www.wave7optics.com) announced a string of new customers, including the Tullahoma (Tennessee) Utilities Board, Orlando Business Telephone Services and its sister company Orlando Telephone Co. in Florida, and SPIE Communications in...

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a turnkey contract with Orascom Telecom to lay the Mediterranean Sea segment of a new 3,850-km submarine cable network, named Middle East North Africa (MENA).(emea)
November 1, 2007... Alcatel-Lucent has signed a turnkey contract with Orascom Telecom to lay the Mediterranean Sea segment of a new 3,850-km submarine cable network, named Middle East North Africa (MENA). The network will link Egypt, Italy, and Saudi Arabia,...

PacketFront (www.packetfront.com) has announced a new deal with Wien Energie Wienstrom (www.wienenergie.at), an Austrian utility company owned by the city of Vienna.(emea)
November 1, 2007... PacketFront (www.packetfront.com) has announced a new deal with Wien Energie Wienstrom (www.wienenergie.at), an Austrian utility company owned by the city of Vienna. Using PacketFront equipment, Wien Energie will operate a fully automated open...

Ekinops.(emea)
November 1, 2007... Ekinops says it has raised $20 million of additional capital. This second round of financing was led by Odyssee Venture and included OTC Asset Management as well as existing investors Auriga Partners, Equitis, Siparex, Societe Generale Asset...

Transmode (www.transmode.com) and Overture Networks (www.overturenetworks.com) have entered into a strategic business partnership.(emea)
November 1, 2007... Transmode (www.transmode.com) and Overture Networks (www.overturenetworks.com) have entered into a strategic business partnership that will enable them to jointly provide enhanced offerings for existing and prospective customers through the...

Pirelli Broadband Solutions (www.pirellibroadband.com) and Intracom Telecom (www.intracom-telecom.com) will deploy Pirelli's City8 CWDM Multiservice Platform.(emea)
November 1, 2007... Pirelli Broadband Solutions (www.pirellibroadband.com) and Intracom Telecom (www.intracom-telecom.com) will deploy Pirelli's City8 CWDM Multiservice Platform in Hellas Online's transport network in Athens, Salonika, and rural areas throughout...

nLIGHT Corp. (www.nlight.net), a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire specialty fiber manufacturer LIEKKI Corp.(emea)
November 1, 2007... nLIGHT Corp. (www.nlight.net), a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire specialty fiber manufacturer LIEKKI Corp. (www.liekki.com) based in Lohja, Finland. Further terms...

Nortel (www.nortel.com) has landed a pair of contracts with European carriers for its metro Ethernet equipment.(emea)
November 1, 2007... Nortel (www.nortel.com) has landed a pair of contracts with European carriers for its metro Ethernet equipment. The new customers include Sapphire of Gibraltar and Banverket Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of Sweden. Sapphire...

Sterlite Optical Technologies Ltd.(asia)
November 1, 2007... Sterlite Optical Technologies Ltd. (www.sterlitetechnologies.com) will drop "optical" from its name. The name change comes in the wake of the acquisition of a power transmission conductors business and the further expansion of the company's...

UTStarcom Inc. (www.utstarcom.com) will supply its Metro Ethernet Forum-certified NetRing 10000i STM-64 optical transport equipment to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(asia)
November 1, 2007... UTStarcom Inc. (www.utstarcom.com) will supply its Metro Ethernet Forum-certified NetRing 10000i STM64 optical transport equipment to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., the incumbent and largest telecommunications operator in India.

Mintera Corp. (www.mintera.com) has raised a $19 million Series C round of venture capital financing.(emea)
November 1, 2007... Mintera Corp. (www.mintera.com) has raised a $19 million Series C round of venture capital financing. The round included participation of the company's new partner, JDSU (www.jdsu. com). The two companies recently announced a co-development...

Establishing edge-to-edge Ethernet service-level verification.(www.lightwaveonline.com)
November 1, 2007... A higher level of integration in the measurement and management of Ethernet services and core standardization will enhance the ability of Ethernet to deliver carrier-quality, multiservice access to the customer edge. BY MANU KAYCEE, TELCO...

Key parameters for testing VoIP networks.(www.lightwaveonline.com)
November 1, 2007... Conventional wisdom says gaining a customer back from churn takes an investment 4x greater than the original investment. As such, service providers must properly test their VoIP networks. BY MAYA GERSHON, AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES

Delivering performance-grade Ethernet transport.(www.lightwaveonline.com)
November 1, 2007... The ability to manage and scale bandwidth to meet the demands of applications such as triple play requires a new, forward-looking architecture that leverages Carrier Ethernet and transport technologies like Optical Transport Network (OTN) and...

Ethernet service monitoring and networking.(www.lightwaveonline.com)
November 1, 2007... To ensure a service is going to work under any and all conditions, a provider must stress test a service to the boundaries of a service-level agreement (SLA) before it is handed over to a customer. Fortunately, such a capability is now...

The case for SAN extension over Ethernet.(www.lightwaveonline.com)
November 1, 2007... Leveraging the scalability, ease of management, and lower cost points of Ethernet, SAN extension over Ethernet gives service providers a powerful tool for pursuing the burgeoning SAN extension services market, bringing the technology to small-...

Carrier Ethernet transport: no longer 'if,' but 'how'.(www.lightwaveonline.com)
November 1, 2007... The quality of service and sub-50-msec protection switching capabilities that Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) adds to Ethernet make it a very attractive and economical technology for transport. BY BRIAN PRATT,...

Honest numbers.(Editorial)
November 1, 2007... Challenging a competitor's claims probably became standard business practice about 30 minutes after business competition first appeared. How vitriolic such back and forth becomes largely depends on the standards of the business niche in...

Controlling opex, availability in packet networks.(Technology: Advances in research, development, engineering, and standards)
November 1, 2007... Service providers are offering new high-bandwidth, high-quality, packet-based services. As more bandwidth is delivered by the network and as these new services become increasingly availability- and performance-sensitive, the fault tolerance and...

40G TODC ramps, 100G not far behind.(TECH TRENDS)(tunable optical dispersion compensation)
November 1, 2007... Lightwave last examined the tunable optical dispersion compensation (TODC) market in our April issue (see "TODC Vendors Ready Inline and Integrated Devices," page 15). Though it's been just seven months, a quick survey of TODC vendors reveals...

New developments in IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire).(STANDARDS WATCH)(institute of electrical and electronics engineers)
November 1, 2007... Although IEEE 1394 (better known as FireWire) began as a "high-speed serial bus" in 1995, it has branched out to become a full-fledged LAN. IEEE 1394 networks have a number of interesting characteristics. First and foremost is support of...

XLoom Communications touts four-channel optical engine.(PRODUCT PROFILE)(Company overview)
November 1, 2007... Israeli-based XLoom Communications Inc. (www. xloomcom.com) was founded in 2002, making it "a post-bubble kind of company," in the words of chief executive officer David Sachs. Times were so hard, in fact, the company only managed to raise...

In-band OSNR for ROADMs: A case study.(CASE BY CASE)(optical signal-to-noise ratio)(reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers)(Case study)
November 1, 2007... The increasing number of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) being deployed in today's networks provides increased flexibility to network operators. At the same time, higher transmission rates (40 Gbits/sec) are making their...

Dispersion compensation markets: paths to opportunity.(ANALYST CORNER)
November 1, 2007... In the past year or so, developments at many levels of the network suggest that significant new revenues will be generated for dispersion compensation by the next wave of optical networking. This "next wave" encompasses more WDM, an...

Bookham, Inc.(people)(appointment of Alain Couder in Bookham Technology PLC)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Bookham, Inc. has appointed Alain Couder as president and chief executive officer. Couder succeeds Peter Bordui, acting president and chief executive officer, who will continue to serve as chairman of the company's board of directors. Couder...

Vyyo Inc.(people)
November 1, 2007... Vyyo Inc., a supplier of broadband access equipment for cable system operators, has selected David Feldman as the company's chief technology officer. Feldman has more than 30 years of cable and technology experience, including positions with...

Nokia Siemens Networks.(people)
November 1, 2007... Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Susan (Sue) Spradley to lead the company's North America region. Spradley replaces Mark Louison, who earlier this year was named president of Nokia Inc., the mobile device manufacturer's arm in the United...

Communication laser market to almost triple by 2012.(MARKET WATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Sales of telecom and datacom lasers will grow from ~$1 billion this year to $2.9 billion in 2012, according to a new report, published by market research firm CIR (www.cir-inc.com), covering tunable and fixed lasers. According to CIR...

Build-out costs limit fiber expansion.(MARKET WATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Utility investment in fiber revolves around "capital deepening," rather than network expansion, despite widespread fiber-optic use, finds a Utilities Telecom Council (UTC; www.utc.org) report. "The State of Utility Fiber 2007," authored by KEMA...

Telecom carrier capex to hit $225b in 2007.(MARKET WATCH)
November 1, 2007... Telecom service provider capital expenditure (capex) is up in every region of the world, claims a new report from Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) titled "Service Provider Capex, Opex, ARPU & Subscribers." The report also shows service...