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China’s Mobile Operators Select Alcatel-Lucent to Build Fiber Optic Network

Alcatel-Lucent, telecom equipment manufacturer, announced that mobile operators, China Telecom and China Mobile, have chosen the company to set up a fiber optic network in China’s provinces.

26 Jul 2010

ESG Upgrades Landfill Monitoring Systems with Fibre-Optic Cabling

Environmental Scientifics Group (ESG), a UK-based company specialized in environmental testing and inspection, has upgraded the landfill monitoring systems with fibre-optic cabling in Staffordshire County Council.

23 Jul 2010

Scientists Make Advancements Toward Optical Communication

Researchers from the Philipps University, the Iowa University and the Oregon State University (OSU) have discovered a new method in which a gallium arsenide-based nanodevice can respond to terahertz pulses for short period of time.

23 Jul 2010

Ciena Offers WDM Technology to Transtelco for Optical Network Expansion

Ciena and Transtelco announced the execution of a 400-kilometer network span with the help of the WDM transport technology of Ciena.

23 Jul 2010

Phoenix Photonics Launches New Wideband Fiber Polarizer for Communication Wavelengths

Phoenix Photonics has expanded its polarization control product range with a new, advanced wideband fiber polarizer.

From Phoenix Photonics Ltd. 22 Jul 2010

Economic Undersea Fibre-Optic Cables Drive East African Broadband Internet Market

Frost & Sullivan has released a new study, ‘East African Broadband Markets Tracker’, on the broadband Internet services market of East Africa.

22 Jul 2010

Enablence Announces Shipment of Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuit Chips

Enablence Technologies announced that it is delivering its Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) products to a tier-1 customer for application in the latter’s Metro Optical Transport Network System.

22 Jul 2010

GAO Fiber Optics Unveils New 6416 Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

GAO Fiber Optics has released a new, advanced optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR), which is specifically developed for producing and maintaining the fiber optic communication devices.

21 Jul 2010

ADTRAN’s Total Access 5000 MSAP Chosen by Covad for Ethernet Services

ADTRAN announced that Covad has chosen its Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform (MSAP), and NetVanta 800 Series network termination products for application in Carrier Ethernet services.

21 Jul 2010

GAO Tek Launches New Fiber Optic Identifier

GAO Tek has launched a new, advanced portable optical fiber identifier that was specifically developed for the maintenance and construction of optical fiber CATV and communication systems.

21 Jul 2010