Lightwave articles from October 2007

Lightwave archives from October 2007

Whatever your perspective, ATCA300 can help.(INDUSTRY)
October 1, 2007... Open industry standards have brought tremendous value to the telecommunications industry. For optical networking, the definition of the ITU DWDM wavelength grid enabled the cost curve of multiple DWDM technologies and systems to improve...

New technology provides breakthrough for MDU fiber installation.(APPLICATIONS)
October 1, 2007... Interest in fiber and cable bend performance for multi-dwelling unit (MDU) FTTH cabling has steadily increased. Rightly so, because making fiber cable installation as easy and fast as copper cable installations while maintaining the optical...

Carrier Ethernet deployment faces challenges, opportunities.(TECHNOLOGY)
October 1, 2007... Ethernet has been adopted by service providers of all types to enable new services and simplify network infrastructure. There are, however, a number of implementation issues Carrier Ethernet must overcome before it is as ubiquitous as today's...

The ECOC blog: had the blog been operational during last month's ECOC, held in Berlin, here's some of what you would have read.(Editorial)
October 1, 2007... Regular readers of this space may recall that I touted back in August the imminent debut of a blog feature on the Lightwave web site. If you've checked the web site since then, you'll have noticed that the blog re mains imminent. (Don't get me...

FPGAs follow optical industry trends.(TECH TRENDS)
October 1, 2007... The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) has evolved from its role as a prototyping vehicle in the late 1980s and early 1990s to a device that is often found in the heart of next-generation optical transport systems. In fact, to chart the...

Carrier Ethernet nears MAN/WAN tipping point.(Applications: Innovative component, subsystem, system, and network design examples and alternatives)
October 1, 2007... Given Ethernet's proven track record, it comes as no surprise that enterprise customers want to take the traditional benefits of Ethernet in the LAN--speed, scalability, simplicity, and bandwidth-on-demand flexibility--and extend them into the...

Cogent Communications banks on Ethernet over IP.(CASE BY CASE)(Company overview)
October 1, 2007... Cogent Communications' (www.cogentco.com) all-optical IP-over-DWDM network currently comprises 25,000 miles of intercity fiber stretching from Seattle, WA, to Budapest, Hungary, and from Oslo, Norway, to Miami, FL. Cogent also owns another...

Readers rank transceiver/ transponder vendors.(ANALYST CORNER)
October 1, 2007... Last month in this space, we revealed some of the purchase criteria engineers and others use when they buy transceivers and transponders, based on results of a reader study Lightwave conducted early this year. (See "Readers Reveal...