Fibre Optics News

New HITS Fiber-Based Solution Helps to Deliver Video Programming to Cable MSOs

HITS®, a business unit of the Comcast Media Center, (CMC - Cable Show Booth #2141) today announced a national terrestrial fiber distribution service for delivering video programming to cable MSOs. The new solution is made possible by the cable industry expertise of the CMC, supported by tier 1 conditional access from Verimatrix and video processing and delivery powered by Harmonic Inc. The HITS fiber-based solution provides industry-proven content security and addresses access control concerns.

ADVA FSP 3000 Delivers 80% Lower Latency Than Traditional Optical Transport Solutions

ADVA Optical Networking today confirmed that its low-latency optical transport solutions offer 80% lower latency than traditional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) options.

RNHN to Deploy New Fiber Optic Medical Network

The Rural Nebraska Health Care Network (RNHN), a consortium of nine rural hospitals and related clinics in western Nebraska, announced a pending transaction with Zayo Group LLC and Adesta LLC that will facilitate the deployment of a new $20M fiber optic medical network.

Telestone to Install Wireless Fiber Optic Distribution System in Five Sub-Provinces of Inner Mongolia

Telestone Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: TSTC; "Telestone" or the "Company"), a leading developer of local access network solutions, products, and engineering services, announced today it has secured a new project from China Mobile Communications Corporation's ("CMCC") Inner Mongolia branch to install a Telestone Technologies' Wireless Fiber Optic Distribution System (WFDS(TM)) to provide wi-fi coverage for CMCC customers in five sub-provinces of Inner Mongolia.

Motorola's Unit Introduces New MCN100 Compact Optical Node for Cable Operators

The Mobile Devices and Home business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced availability of the new MCN100 compact optical node, designed specifically for European cable operators looking to meet consumer demand for higher broadband speeds and additional high definition (HD) and streaming video services.

New Scalable Optical Node from Harmonic Supports Broadcast and Narrowcast Services

Harmonic Inc. today introduced the PWRBlazer™ 3142E, a compact 4x4 scalable optical node that addresses the need for a dense, cost-effective node with forward and return path flexibility.

New Plastic-Based Technology Helps to Develop Smaller, Flexible Optical Communication Devices

It looks like a piece of gel that slips into the sole of your sneaker, but it's a new nano-based technology that can make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster ¯ a communications technology "enabler" that may be in use only five or ten years in the future, currently being created by Dr. Koby Scheuer of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering.

AMS Technologies Presents New Fused PM Couplers at 780 nm

AMS Technologies presents the new fused PM couplers at 780 nm, an extension of the PM coupler series from Gooch + Housego. Typical applications include power monitoring of PM sources, high power fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and fiber gyroscopes.

AMS Technologies Presents New Fused PM Couplers at 780 nm

Macomb County Receives Fiber Optic Network Connection from Waveform

Waveform Technology, a leading Metro Detroit area commercial data center operator and Internet service provider, is now supplying fiber optic Internet access to Macomb County. The new connection serves both Macomb's 2,500 County Employees and MACnet, the county's own private network, by providing redundancy to the current Internet circuit.