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USDA Rural Development Telecommunications Program Selects ADC Fiber Products

ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) (www.adc.com), a leading supplier of infrastructure solutions for fiber deployments, announced today its OmniReach Hub-in-a-Pedestal (HIP) fiber distribution hub, OmniReach Passive Optical Splitter Modules, Fiber Cable Assemblies and Value-added Module VAM system have been accepted by the USDA Rural Development Telecommunications program, allowing ADC’s products to be used in the expansion of broadband services to underserved and rural communities.

5 Nov 2009

Lexent Completes Dark Fiber Connection Between Equinix IBX Data Centers and Manhattan Carrier Hotels

Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Lexent has completed its ultra low latency dark fiber connection between two Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in Secaucus, NJ and strategic carrier hotels located in Manhattan, including 60 Hudson Street, 32 Avenue of the America, 75 Broad Street and 111 Eighth Avenue.

5 Nov 2009

Clearfield to Deploy FTTH for Garden Valley Telephone Company in Minnesota

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD) products and services have been selected by Garden Valley Telephone Company for a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment in northwestern Minnesota. Based in Erskine, Minn., Garden Valley Telephone Company (GVTEL) is one of the largest telephone cooperatives in the state, serving 24 exchanges. The new deployment will encompass almost 500 route miles in and around Erskine, McIntosh, Winger, Gatzke, and St. Hilaire, Minnesota.

5 Nov 2009

New Optical Tool to Help Surgeons Diagnose Cancer Tissue in Brain

As a Johns Hopkins electrical engineer, Jin U. Kang has spent years tinkering with lasers and optical fiber, studying what happens when light strikes matter

5 Nov 2009

Conolog Completes Field Testing of Fiber Optic Detector

Specific standalone product for any fiber optic network or line Conolog Corporation (NASDAQ: CNLG), an engineering and design company that provides digital signal processing solutions to global electric utilitie...

4 Nov 2009

MRV COMMUNICATIONS CTO to Participate in Discussion at Ethernet Expo 2009

MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC., today announced that its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Optical Networks, Brandon Pemberton, will participate in a roundtable discussion at Light Reading’s Ethernet Expo 2009. MRV is a leading networking company with a full line of packet-optical transport (P-OTS), carrier Ethernet, 40G networking and out-of-band networking products.

3 Nov 2009

Unity Consortium Lands Trans-Pacific Fiber Optic Cable System in Japan

Unity today announced the landing of its Trans-Pacific fiber optic cable system in Chikura, Japan, marking an important milestone in the construction of a new system which will deliver significant increase in capacity between the United States and Japan. With construction on schedule, the new system is planned to be ready for service in the first quarter of 2010.

2 Nov 2009

Georgia Institute of Technology Researchers Develop 3D PV System Using Optical Fiber

Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs

2 Nov 2009

Lightwave Logic Completes Fabrication of Prototype Phase Modulator

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG) a technology company focused on the development of electro-optic polymer materials for applications in high speed fiber-optic telecommunications and optical computing, today announced the successful completion of the fabrication stage of their prototype phase modulator, demonstrating a commercially viable process for the manufacture of optical devices using Lightwave's 'Next Generation Electro-Optic Material Platform.'

31 Oct 2009

Verizon Granted Cable Franchise to Provide FiOS TV Service in Westford

Residents of Westford are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television services, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service via the most advanced all-digital, fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.

30 Oct 2009

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