Lightwave articles from October 2006

Lightwave archives from October 2006

Foundry service demand picks up.(Focus on)
October 1, 2006... Some of the excesses of the optical communications euphoria have proved easy to erase. Product lines, networks, and even entire companies have disappeared. The equipment vendors of that era who have survived operate with reduced headcounts and...

Nanofabrication tools promise new laser manufacturing methods.(Focus on)
October 1, 2006... The recent advances in nanofabrication provide many new opportunities to develop new devices that are cheaper and better than conventional alternatives. Quantum dot lasers, NanoOpto's polarizers, splitters, and waveplates are some examples of...

HDTV spurs fiber opportunity in broadcast TV industry.(high definition television)
October 1, 2006... Television broadcasters today are spending roughly $9 billion on satellite services, say industry insiders. While the majority of that cost goes directly toward the distribution of broadcast TV via satellite, about $1 billion is used for...

NeoPhotonics (www.neophotonics.com) has announced what it claims is a significant expansion of its product line for high-capacity enterprise networks via the acquisition of BeamExpress Inc.(north america)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... NeoPhotonics (www.neophotonics.com) has announced what it claims is a significant expansion of its product line for high-capacity enterprise networks via the acquisition of BeamExpress Inc. BeamExpress offers a line of multimode transceivers...

White Rock Networks.(suspending its operations )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... White Rock Networks (www.whiterock.com), which makes multiservice optical access, transport, and aggregation products for Ethernet and TDM service delivery, has suspended operations while it searches for a buyer. In an e-mail announcement...

Time Warner Telecom Inc.(completed construction of DWDM SONET fiber ring )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Time Warner Telecom Inc. (www.twtelecom.com) has completed a 480-mile, DWDM SONET fiber ring that extends service from San Francisco, the East Bay, and Walnut Creek to the Silicon Valley cities of Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, and...

Alloptic.(latin america)
October 1, 2006... EPON/GEPON equipment provider Alloptic (www.alloptic.com) has signed a reseller agreement with value-added partner ProCibernetica of Colombia as part of its continuing expansion into Central and Latin America. ProCibernetica serves Colombia and...

French alternative broadband provider Free, subsidiary of the II-liad Group (www.iliad.fr/en/), has announced a 1 billion [euro] FTTH rollout.(europe)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... French alternative broadband provider Free, subsidiary of the II-liad Group (www.iliad.fr/en/), has announced a 1 billion [euro] FTTH rollout. As of the first half 2007, the group plans to offer its Parisian subscriber base access to its...

Russian telecommunications operator Golden Telecom (www.goldentelecom.com) has selected equipment from Nortel (www.nortel.com) for use in a next-generation optical network designed to provide both TDM and Ethernet transport and support various links between 2.5 and 10 Gbits/sec.(Northern Telecom Ltd.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Russian telecommunications operator Golden Telecom (www.goldentelecom.com) has selected equipment from Nortel (www.nortel.com) for use in a next-generation optical network designed to provide both TDM and Ethernet transport and support various...

Teknovus.(penetrating into China)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Teknovus (www.Teknovus.com), provider of GEPON/EPON chipsets, has announced penetration of more than 20 Chinese provinces and cities, including the major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, which represent three of China's four largest...

Flag Telecom's.(asia)
October 1, 2006... Flag Telecom's (www.flagtelecom.com) $400 million undersea cable system connecting 11 countries in the Middle East to India is now operational. The 11,859-km (7,370-mile) fiber network will carry data at a speed of 2.56 Tbits/sec. It stretches...

OMRON Corp (www.omron.com) has reached a preliminary agreement with NHK Spring Co. Ltd. to acquire NHK Spring's FTTH optical coupler business.(asia)
October 1, 2006... OMRON Corp. (www.omron.com) has reached a preliminary agreement with NHK Spring Co. Ltd. to acquire NHK Spring's FTTH optical coupler business. OMRON intends to combine NHK Spring's quartz optical wave-guide technology with its own stacked...

Cortina Systems.(acquiring assets of Intel Corp.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Cortina Systems (www.cortina-systems.com) has acquired certain assets of Intel's (www.intel.com) optical network components business for $115 million, which consists of a minority investment position and an undisclosed amount of cash. Included...

Optical Internetworking Forum.(Update)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... At its recent third-quarter meeting in Vancouver, the Optical Internetworking Forum (www.oiforum.com) debuted a major upgrade to StatEye, an open-source software package that is an integral part of the channel compliance methodology of the...

Will FTTH innovation continue?(fiber to the home)(Editorial)
October 1, 2006... This month, Coming Inc. and Lightwave recognize this year's FTTXcellence Award recipient at the FTTH Conference in Las Vegas, NV. The FTTXcellence Award is designed to recognize an individual who, over the past year, has done the most to...

'Light WDM' stretches metro optical capacity.(Technology: Advances in research, development, engineering, and standards)
October 1, 2006... Rapid and continuing growth of broadband-based services is completely transforming the telecom environment. To provide a perspective, the market-research firm Infonetics Research wrote in its Broadband CPE Report (June 2006) that it expects 245...

SOAs still awaiting big chance.(semiconductor optical amplifiers)
October 1, 2006... In March 2004, Lightwave ran an article in this space entitled "SOA Debate Rages On." The lead paragraph concluded with the following assertion: "While SOAs [semiconductor optical amplifiers] are now commercially available from several...

ITU revises Recommendation G.655 for non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber.(STANDARDS WATCH)
October 1, 2006... Earlier this year ITU-T SG15/Q5 consented to a modified version of Recommendation G.655, "Characteristics of a Non-zero Dispersion-shifted Single-mode Optical Fibre (NZDSF) and Cable." Among other things, two new tables were added with...

Four-channel optical transceiver module.(COMPONENTS)
October 1, 2006... The HFBR-7934Z four-channel parallel optical transceiver module complies with RollS 6 and operates at 3.125 Gbits/sec per channel for an aggregate bandwidth of 12.5 Gbits/sec and a link distance up to 350 m. This distance and high-bandwidth...

High-density optical fiber interconnect system.(COMPONENTS)
October 1, 2006... The flexible, scalable Cannon PHD line of optical interconnects enables a higher density optical system than traditional SC, ST, or MC ferrule technologies. Based on an industry-standard 1.25-mm ceramic ferrule, the optical core connector...

Siemens unveils 'multihaul' transport system.(Siemens Communications Ltd.)
October 1, 2006... Looking to expand its success in the long-haul market to other applications, Siemens Communications Inc. (www.siemens.com) has developed the SURPASS hiT 7300 optical transport platform. The company describes the system as "multihaul," which...

G.984.2-compliant optical transceivers.(COMPONENTS)
October 1, 2006... The GPON Class B+ family of optical transceivers can recover every bit from the first bit of the incoming optical signal running in burst mode, offering 28-dB loss budget and 20-dB dynamic range without power leveling scheme. The transceivers...

Passive component design tools.(DESIGN & MANUFACTURING)
October 1, 2006... Version 7.0 of the Passive Component Design Suite, which includes the BeamPROP, FullWAVE, BandSOLVE, GratingMOD, DiffractMOD, FemSIM, and MOST tools, now incorporates advanced nonuniform mesh generation and improved speed and usability. By...

Automatic die bonder.(DESIGN & MANUFACTURING)
October 1, 2006... Designed for fully automatic, precision microelectronics assembly, the computer-controlled work cell in the Mode 3500-11 die bonder performs adhesive dispense, component placement, die attach, and flip-chip operations over a 0.46-[m.sup.2] work...

Waveguide optics design suite.(DESIGN & MANUFACTURING)
October 1, 2006... The latest version of the waveguide optics design suite, OptiBPM 8, adds new mode solvers for circular fibers, powerful optimization engines, and increased simulation performance. Advanced LP and vector mode solvers for circular fibers find...

Unmanaged Ethernet switches.(SUBSYSTEMS)
October 1, 2006... Standard-function narrow (SFN) switches use third-generation switch technology to lower installed costs between 20% and 70% compared with current market offerings. The switches provide low-cost, fully industrially hardened, entry-level switch...

10-Gbit/sec pluggable modules.(SUBSYSTEMS)
October 1, 2006... The Netstender platform now supports 10-Gbit Ethernet and OC192/STM-64 interfaces with the 10-Gbit/sec wavelength conversion module for metropolitan and regional networks. Using pluggable optics on line ports, the module can translate any...

Widely tunable 10-Gbit/sec transponder.(SUBSYSTEMS)
October 1, 2006... With the compact Free-Light, a 10-Gbit/sec widely tunable transponder designed for metropolitan area and long-haul networks that use reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), carriers can expect to reduce the number of transponder...

Ultrathin EDFA module.(SUBSYSTEMS)
October 1, 2006... The ultrathin PureGain 400 erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) module is 7.5 mm thick, designed to work within the strict space constraints in transponder and line card applications. The module can be used in a preamplifier configuration, which...

Optical power meter family.(TEST EQUIPMENT)
October 1, 2006... A complete family of optical power meters is available for precision optical power measurements, peak detection, and laser tweaking. Sets include display and sensor units covering an overall optical power range of 5 nW to 30 W and a wavelength...

Optical time-domain reflectometer.(TEST EQUIPMENT)
October 1, 2006... The Noyes M200 optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) offers fiber-optic cable test and trouble-shooting capabilities in a handheld package weighing less than 2 lb. Three models are offered: the M200-MM (850/1,300-nm multimode) and M200-Quad...

Insertion-loss measurement tool.(TEST EQUIPMENT)
October 1, 2006... The OP815D insertion loss measurement instrument is optimized for large-core optical fibers from 100 to 1,000 pm, including silica and plastic optical fibers. Integrating a stable laser or LED source and a precision optical power meter in a...

Carrier Ethernet community wrestles, with customer demarcation.(Applications: Innovative component, subsystem, system, and network design examples and alternatives)
October 1, 2006... While significant progress has been made in standardizing Carrier Ethernet specifications, customer demarcation remains an uncertain area. For example, while the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has determined what should be measured when monitoring...

Shopping plaza goes optical wireless.(Westfield UTC contracts with Wireless Facilities Inc.)
October 1, 2006... Westfield UTC is a high-end outdoor shopping center in San Diego, CA, with a retail campus that is home to more than 180 shops, two dozen restaurants, and an ice-skating rink. Last year, Westfield UTC's management company tapped independent...

IMS matters to optical networking.(ip multimedia subsystems)
October 1, 2006... This IMS you hear so much about these days originated as part of a set of standards for 3G mobile telephones initiated in 1999 by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). In the second quarter of 2004, 3GPP Release 5 included a...

Platform convergence drives MAN test equipment demand.(metropolitan area networks)
October 1, 2006... The metropolitan area network (MAN) test equipment market is often considered to be one of the most significant areas in the communications test and measurement industry. The constant increase of data traffic and the emergence and deployment of...

Carrier Ethernet sales up 100% year-over-year.(Market Watch)
October 1, 2006... The worldwide market for Carrier Ethernet equipment increased 100% year-over-year and more than 25% sequentially, according to Synergy Research Group's "Q2 2006 Enterprise and Service Provider Router/Switch Market Shares" report. Carriers are...

Asia-Pacific leads FTTX market.(Market Watch)
October 1, 2006... Over the next 5 years, worldwide spending on fiber-optic systems used for broadband access will total $77 billion, increasing from $8 billion this year to $21 billion by 2010, say KMI Research analysts in the firm's new report, "Worldwide...

2Q06 FTTH shipments up 245% from 2005.(MARKET WATCH)
October 1, 2006... FTTH shipments in the second quarter of 2006 increased 18% from the previous quarter and a whopping 245% from the same time last year, reveals Dittberner's latest "Broadband Quarterly Shipment Analysis." NTT accounts for more than 80% of the...