Lightwave articles from October 2008

Lightwave archives from October 2008

FEC and EDC drive cost-effective metro/Carrier Ethernet deployment.(TECHNOLOGY)
October 1, 2008... With new data and video applications driving massive increases in Internet traffic, service providers and telecom and datacom OEMs have been under pressure to provide lower cost-per-bit transmission services. Consequently, the extension of...

Photonic integration diverges down two paths.(Focus on)
October 1, 2008... The need to lower cost, power consumption, and package size has led to significant advancements in photonic integration. Infinera (www. infinera.com) has made the biggest splash in this area with its monolithically integrated InP photonic...

How to deliver 40 and 100 Gbits/sec on 10-Gbit/sec optical networks.(APPLICATIONS)
October 1, 2008... Service providers are facing a challenge. They have revenue-generating opportunities from bandwidth-intensive services driven by video, yet their networks are nearing saturation. Although they have recently completed re-engineering their...

AFL Telecommunications (www.afltele.com) has acquired a majority ownership position in The Light Brigade (www.lightbrigade.com), a fiber-optic training company and supplier of media and products.(north america)
October 1, 2008... AFL Telecommunications (www.afltele.com) has acquired a majority ownership position in The Light Brigade (www.lightbrigade.com), a fiber-optic training company and supplier of media and products. This acquisition expands AFL's technical...

GPON semiconductor and software supplier BroadLight (www.broadlight.com) is collaborating with Atheros Communications.(north america)
October 1, 2008... GPON semiconductor and software supplier BroadLight (www.broadlight.com) is collaborating with Atheros Communications (www.atheros.com) to provide complete, turnkey reference platforms that integrate BroadLight's GPON technology with the...

CoreOptics Inc. (www.CoreOptics.com), a designer and manufacturer of 40- and 10-Gbit/ sec optical networking subsystems, and ADVA Optical Networking.(north america)
October 1, 2008... CoreOptics Inc. (www.CoreOptics.com), a designer and manufacturer of 40- and 10-Gbit/ sec optical networking subsystems, and ADVA Optical Networking (www.advaoptical.com) have announced the joint development of the second generation of...

Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) has signed a five-year, $14 million development contract with Kotura (www.kotura.com) for DARPA's Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) program.(north america)
October 1, 2008... Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) has signed a five-year, $14 million development contract with Kotura (www.kotura.com) for DARPA's Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) program. Previously, Sun announced its participation...

Nortel (www.nortel.com) announced that Bell Canada and Alaska Communications Systems have selected its 40G optical capabilities. Bell Canada says it is using Nortel's 40G Adaptive Optical Engine to transport four times the current network bandwidth within its Montreal-New York, Toronto-Chicago, and Toronto-Montreal traffic corridors.(north america)
October 1, 2008... Nortel (www.nortel.com) announced that Bell Canada and Alaska Communications Systems have selected its 40G optical capabilities. Bell Canada says it is using Nortel's 40G Adaptive Optical Engine to transport four times the current network...

Corrigent Systems (www.corrigent.com), provider of carrier Ethernet transport (CET) equipment for next-generation service provider networks, announced that its CM-100 product line was selected by Hanaro Telecom.(north america)
October 1, 2008... Corrigent Systems (www.corrigent.com), provider of carrier Ethernet transport (CET) equipment for next-generation service provider networks, announced that its CM-100 product line was selected by Hanaro Telecom, Korea's leading ISP, as a main...

Hitachi Telecom (USA) Inc. (www.hitachitelecom.com) will partner with Carina Technology Inc. (www.carinatek.com) to offer the complementary advantages of reduced operational expense and increased revenue potential to utility companies that plan to provide FTTP services using GPON technology.(north america)
October 1, 2008... Hitachi Telecom (USA) Inc. (www.hitachitelecom.com) will partner with Carina Technology Inc. (www.carinatek.com) to offer the complementary advantages of reduced operational expense and increased revenue potential to utility companies that plan...

Anagran.(north america)
October 1, 2008... Anagran (www.anagran.com), provider of high-capacity network traffic management technology and products, announced that it has closed a Series D round of funding totaling $8.6 million. Each of the company's existing venture capital...

Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) has signed three new multi-million Euro contracts with RTE (www.rte-france.com), a subsidiary of French utility EDF Group, to deliver, install, and assist RTE in the operation and maintenance of an integrated fiber-optic network.(europe)
October 1, 2008... Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) has signed three new multi-million Euro contracts with RTE (www.rte-france.com), a subsidiary of French utility EDF Group, to deliver, install, and assist RTE in the operation and maintenance of an...

SMART Comp.(europe)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... SMART Comp., a Czech metropolitan optical networks operator, plans to build a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) optical network in Brno based on Cisco's (www.cisco.com) IP networking architecture. The network will enable residents to be able to use...

Redstone plc.(europe)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Titanic Quarter Ltd., an urban mixed-use regeneration of a 185-acre site in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, announced that Redstone plc (www.redstone.co.uk) has been granted exclusive rights to develop an advanced FTTH infrastructure. All...

Hitachi Telecom (USA) (www.hitachitele com.com) has teamed up with Falcon IP/ Complete of Malden.(north america)
October 1, 2008... Hitachi Telecom (USA) (www.hitachitele com.com) has teamed up with Falcon IP/ Complete of Malden, MO, to provide a fully integrated MPEG-4 IPTV option for service providers that are implementing Hitachi's AMN1220 Gigabit Passive Optical Network...

Nortel.(HOTPICK)
October 1, 2008... Nortel (www.nortel.com) announced that it will explore divestiture of its Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business, which includes its optical and Carrier Ethernet portfolios. Despite calling MEN "a premium asset with a highly differentiated...

Future Fibre Technologies Pty. Ltd. (FFT; www.fft.com.au) has filed a lawsuit against Optellios Inc. (www.fiberpatrol. com), in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.(europe)
October 1, 2008... Future Fibre Technologies Pty. Ltd. (FFT; www.fft.com.au) has filed a lawsuit against Optellios Inc. (www.fiberpatrol. com), in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. FFT claims that it is the rightful owner of U.S. Patent...

Alcatel-Lucent.(europe)
October 1, 2008... According to Alcatel-Lucent representatives, EIG is the first direct, high-bandwidth optical fiber submarine cable system from the U.K. to India. With completion scheduled in the second quarter of 2010, EIG will deliver an ultimate capacity of...

Nokia Siemens Networks.(europe)
October 1, 2008... Nokia Siemens Networks (www.nokiasie mensnetworks.com) has announced plans to focus on DSL and next-generation optical access technology and limit its investment in existing GPON technology due to its belief that the mass market rollout of FTTH...

Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd.'s.(asia)
October 1, 2008... Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd.'s (www.oki. com) board of directors has approved the spin-off of its telecommunications business through an incorporation-type company split. The new entity, OKI Networks Co. Ltd., was established on October 1.

BTI Systems (www.btisystems.com), a supplier of intelligent services edge products for the delivery of high-bandwidth, multi-protocol services, has signed a development and supply agreement that covers joint research and development initiatives with Wuhan FiberHome Networks Co. Ltd.(asia)
October 1, 2008... BTI Systems (www.btisystems.com), a supplier of intelligent services edge products for the delivery of high-bandwidth, multi-protocol services, has signed a development and supply agreement that covers joint research and development initiatives...

GigOptix (www.gigoptix.com) says that ZTE Corp. (www.zte.com) has adopted one of its modulator drivers for use in one of China-based system house's DWDM systems.(asia)
October 1, 2008... GigOptix (www.gigoptix.com) says that ZTE Corp. (www.zte.com) has adopted one of its modulator drivers for use in one of China-based system house's DWDM systems. The GigOptix part is used to drive electro-absorption and Mach-Zehnder modulators...

Telecarrier (www.telecarrier.com), a telecommunications service provider in Panama, has selected Occam Networks (www.occamnetworks.com) as the principal broadband access supplier in a program designed to increase broadband services and push broadband access throughout the country.(central and south america)
October 1, 2008... Telecarrier (www.telecarrier.com), a telecommunications service provider in Panama, has selected Occam Networks (www.occamnetworks.com) as the principal broadband access supplier in a program designed to increase broadband services and push...

Gtd Group, one of the main service providers in Chile, has selected Alcatel- Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) to deploy the country's first network based on fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) GPON technology.(central and south america)
October 1, 2008... Gtd Group, one of the main service providers in Chile, has selected Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com) to deploy the country's first network based on fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) GPON technology. Installation and deployment of the GPON was...

FTTH future brightens.(Editorial)
October 1, 2008... You'd expect the programming at the Fiber to the Home Conference and Exposition held last month in the cavernous Gaylord Opryland resort in Nashville, TN, to present a bullish view of the future of optical access technology. The question for...

Carrier Ethernet improves IP service delivery.(Technology: Advances in research, development, engineering, and standards)
October 1, 2008... Flourishing IP services in consumer and enterprise markets have created substantial demand for IP connectivity at the customer premises. Ethernet is the most cost-effective way to deliver these IP services. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Carriers...

Fiber cabinets protect and connect.(TECH TRENDS)
October 1, 2008... They may be easy to dismiss as simple metal boxes that clutter our neighborhoods and crowd our curbsides, but today's fiber cabinets provide much more than just shelter for telecom equipment. "In a sense it's a metal box, but at the same time,...

40- and 100GbE transmission over multimode fiber.(STANDARDS WATCH)
October 1, 2008... The explosion in demand for bandwidth and, consequently, for high-capacity computing, is driving an urgent need for higher Ethernet network speeds. Several factors contribute to this, including broadband penetration fueled by video-rich...

JDSU brings integration to optical amplification.(PRODUCT PROFILE)
October 1, 2008... At last month's European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), JDSU (www.jdsu. com) announced that it has brought the benefits of functional integration to a market segment that hasn't seen much innovation in the last decade: optical...

Standardized coupler/splitters.(COMPONENTS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Standard singlemode coupler/splitters are used to either combine two or more signals into one or split one signal into multiple paths. They are available in 1 x 2, 1 x 3, 1 x 4, 1 x 8, 1 x 16, 1 x 32, 2 x 2, and 2 x 4 configurations with all...

Modulator driver.(COMPONENTS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The GX6155 Mach-Zehnder modulator driver is targeted at 10-Gbit/sec 300-pin transponder applications for long-haul and metro communication links. Key features of the GX6155 include ceramic package (which improves manufacturability), full RoHS...

Packet switch and OTN mapper.(COMPONENTS)
October 1, 2008... The SMARTPACK TPOX3203 20-Gbit/sec packet optical engine provides a highly integrated chip approach for carrier Ethernet over OTN. Designed specifically for Packet-Optical Transport Network (P-OTN) applications, the TPOX3203 integrates...

2.5-Gbit/sec laser diode driver.(COMPONENTS)
October 1, 2008... The SY88212L stand-alone 2.5-Gbit/sec laser diode driver (LDD) with integrated automatic power control (APC) and a power monitoring feature keep average optical power constant during temperature changes and over the lifetime of the laser. The...

Thermoelectric cooler module.(COMPONENTS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The OptoCooler UPF40 thin-film thermoelectric cooler module is designed for optoelectronic applications with high heat-flux requirements. The module is suited for the cooling and temperature control of optoelectronic devices such as...

Tunable lasers.(COMPONENTS)
October 1, 2008... Narrow linewidth, low phase noise, and high-power DFB array-based widely tunable lasers enable the efficient transition of networks to 40-Gbit/sec and 100-Gbit/sec rates by enabling advanced modulation techniques with coherent detection. The...

Multiplay test products.(TEST)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The N2X Multiservices Test Solution combines line-rate, hardware-based performance statistics for video, voice, and data services on the same test port. The N2X provides scalable hardware-based, triple-play traffic generation and analysis based...

10-Gbit test and monitoring access tool.(TEST)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The P-Series OptiCop 10G Converger provides non-intrusive monitoring access for Packet over SONET/SDH (PoS) networks. The converger can translate 10G PoS traffic into Ethernet traffic to enable service providers to leverage their existing GbE...

GbE test set.(TEST)
October 1, 2008... The SunLite GigE palm-sized GbE tester helps telecom and broadband service providers meet the demands of using Ethernet to deliver robust and differentiated services to their business and municipal customers. The unit provides multi-stream,...

Fiber testing kit.(TEST)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The FiberMASTER portable five-wavelength fiber testing kit measures critical power and optical signal loss on standard wavelength windows, as well as on FTTx applications. At the heart of the FiberMASTER is a five-wavelength power meter with...

Power meter.(TEST)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The Noyes OPM4-FTTx PON handheld power meter has an integrated visual fault locator (VFL) to measure downstream optical power at 1490 and 1550 nm simultaneously in FTTx PONs. Using the "set reference" feature, comparisons can be made between...

HD port shelf.(INSTALLATION)
October 1, 2008... The high-density (HD) 384-port shelf on the company's 5500 digital crossconnect system enables service providers to obtain 32 x the port densities of the company's older 5500 digital crossconnect systems. In the same amount of rack space, the...

Fiber-optic system.(INSTALLATION)
October 1, 2008... The keyed LC Fiber Optic System facilitates secure, modular, end-to-end keyed connectivity for all LC cabling and interconnect elements in the enterprise--from the main equipment room to the desk. The system comprises keyed LC versions of...

Cleaner for single fiber connections.(INSTALLATION)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Dry cloth IBC Brand Cleaners for mated and unmated connectors are used for single fiber connectors residing in the bulkhead adapter or loose on a cable assembly. The cleaners are made to clean both ultra (UPC) and angled polished (APC)...

Injection-molded splice trays.(INSTALLATION)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Available in 12-fiber mini and 24-fiber high-density versions, the splice trays protect and manage heat shrink style spliced fibers. Each tray accommodates 250- or 900-[micro]m singlemode or multimode fiber with wide channels that reduce...

In Amsterdam, even houseboats are well-connected.(CASE BY CASE)
October 1, 2008... Among readers of Lightwave, the acronym "FTTH" is well-understood to mean fiber to the home. But for subscribers of Amsterdam's CityNet network, the "H" could also stand for "houseboat." Thanks to an existing military connector specially...

Readers rate transceiver/ transponder vendors.(ANALYST CORNER)(Survey)
October 1, 2008... For the second year in a row, Lightwave asked those of you involved in the purchase of transceivers and transponders to tell us about the factors that go into selecting the right device for your application. Last October's "Analyst Corner"...

Infonetics: Optical network hardware sales up 14% in 2Q.(MARKET WATCH)(Financial report)
October 1, 2008... Communications market research firm Infonetics Research (www.in fonetics.com) says worldwide optical network hardware sales got back on track after the usual 1Q seasonal decline, as total optical hardware revenue hit $4.1 billion in 2Q08, up...

Fiber-optic attenuator market to surge by 2012.(MARKET WATCH)
October 1, 2008... ElectroniCast Consultants (www.electronicastconsul tants.com) has released the second of two studies in 2008, this one detailing the global market consumption and technology trends of fiber-optic component/module type attenuators. ElectroniCast...

Dell'Oro: WDM fuels optical market growth.(MARKET WATCH)
October 1, 2008... In a newly released optical five-year forecast report, Dell'Oro Group (www.delloro.com) forecasts that total worldwide optical transport equipment revenue will exceed $13 billion in 2012, in large part due to strong growth in the WDM segment....