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CIR’s New Report Discusses Volume Opportunity for Optical Interconnects

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "New Revenue Opportunities for Optical Interconnects: A Market and Technology Forecast" report to their offering.

14 May 2010

BTI Announces Deployment of BTI 7000 Series Fiber Network Solution in Minnesota

BTI Systems, the company that redefines metro service delivery, today announced that Enventis, a leading integrated communications provider, has deployed the BTI 7000 Series for regional Point-of-Presence (POP) interconnect in the state of Minnesota.

From Juniper Networks, Inc. 13 May 2010

Three-Port Transistor Laser Modifies Current Law to Current-Energy Law

While the laws of physics weren't made to be broken, sometimes they need revision. A major current law has been rewritten thanks to the three-port transistor laser, developed by Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr. at the University of Illinois.

13 May 2010

Ciena Integrates 40G Adaptive Optical Engine Technology into New FlexSelect Platform

Ciena® Corporation today announced the integration of the company’s market-leading 40G coherent technology on its CN 4200® RS FlexSelect® Advanced Services Platform to address customer demand for higher capacity metro and regional networks, managed services and enterprise applications.

13 May 2010

HCTA Expands Salira Line with New Optical Network Units

Hitachi Communication Technologies America (HCTA) has launched the 10G DePON and 10GEPON optical network units under the Salira product family.

12 May 2010

Vytran Announces New Cleaver for Specialty Fibers

Vytran released the new automated optical fiber cleaver, LDC-400.

11 May 2010

Infinera Announces Deployment of 6,000km of Transatlantic Optical Route

Infinera has reported that it has completed the deployment of a transatlantic route for a key global telecommunication firm.

11 May 2010

Dr. Mahmoud Publishes Book on Wireless Communication

Future Fibre Technologies’ senior digital signal processing engineer, Dr Seedahmed Mahmoud, has just published a book “Spatial Temporal Propagation Channel for Wireless Communication -
Accurate Modelling, Simulation and Analysis”.

From Future Fibre Technologies Pty. Ltd. 11 May 2010

Successful Demonstration of Alcatel-Lucent’s 40G Technology Over Apollo’s Fiber Optic Cable System

At the SubOptic tradeshow in Yokohama Japan today, Apollo, a UK based company which owns and operates one of the most advanced transatlantic fiber optic cable systems in existence today, and Alcatel-Lucent announced the achievement of an industry milestone with the successful demonstration of the transmission of approximately three terabits per second (Tbit/s) of data, based on 40Gbit/s channels, per fibre pair in a submarine network.

11 May 2010

Colo5 Announces Activation of Private Fiber Optic Ring in Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida-based data center collocation and broadband services provider, Colo5, announced that it has activated a private, customized fiber optic ring across the metro.

10 May 2010