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Spiralight Network Selects Sorrento’s GigaMux 6400 to Improve Optical Transport Services

Sorrento Networks announced today that Spiralight Network, LLC, an optical transport service provider based in the upper Midwest, has selected Sorrento’s GigaMux 6400 to enhance service reliability and high-speed transport services for its customers based in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Spiralight’s services include Lightwave, SONET, Ethernet, Fast/GIG E and basic TDM.

23 Dec 2009

Verizon Successfully Completes Field-Test of 10Gbps Passive Optical Network System

Verizon is the first telecommunications company in the world to successfully field-test a passive optical network system known as XG-PON that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) downstream and 2.4 Gbps upstream, four times as fast as the current top transmission speeds supporting the company's all-fiber FiOS network.

17 Dec 2009

Intune Networks, Aricent to Develop Optical Packet Switch and Transport Networking Platform

Aricent(TM), a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, today announced that Intune Networks, an Ireland-based telecom company delivering next generation platforms based on ultra-fast dynamic optical technologies, has selected Aricent to co-develop a highly advanced Optical Packet Switch and Transport networking platform for next generation Metro Networks.

17 Dec 2009

Lightwave Logic Announces Completion of Independent Verification for its Proprietary Materials

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG) a technology company focused on the development of the "Next Generation Electro-Optic Platform" for applications in high speed fiber-optic telecommunications and optical computing, today announces that independent verification of earlier reported test results of its proprietary materials has been completed.

16 Dec 2009

Report Shows P-OTS Technology Will be Deployed in Carrier Core Networks in 2010

Packet-optical transport system (P-OTS) technology, which is now being deployed in metro networks, will start to be deployed in carrier core networks in 2010, triggering a big step in the transformation of telecom networks to a pure packet-based architecture, according to a major new report from Heavy Reading, the research division of Light Reading.

16 Dec 2009

Optimum Lightpath and Tellabs Build Optical Network for High-Bandwidth Services

Millions of dollars travel through the New York Metropolitan Area's communications networks every hour. With so much at stake, businesses need a trustworthy network that handles transactions quickly and reliably.

16 Dec 2009

IEEE Now Developing New Standard for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks

The IEEE Standards Association announced today the approval of a new Working Group with the task of developing a new communications standard, IEEE P1904.1™, "Standard for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON)."

15 Dec 2009

Verizon Installs Commercial 100G Ultra-Long-Haul Optical System for Live Traffic

On Monday (Dec. 14) Verizon became the first telecommunications carrier to successfully deploy a commercial 100G (gigabits per second) ultra-long-haul optical system for live traffic. This system was deployed on the company's European optical core network between Paris and Frankfurt. The accomplishment marks the first time for deployment of ultra-long-haul 100G using a single channel on a production network.

15 Dec 2009

HyperCube to Improve its Traffic with Alpheus Fiber Optic Network

Alpheus Communications, operator of an extensive fiber optic network across Texas, and HyperCube, LLC, a premier provider of local and national tandem services to carriers across the United States, today announced that HyperCube has selected Alpheus to provide critical network services to further enhance HyperCube’s growing volume of voice traffic.

11 Dec 2009

Corning to Offer Assistance in Testing Case Western Reserve University’s FTTH Network

Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Incorporated’s (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, will supply product and design assistance to Case Western Reserve University and its partners in a historic initiative to test the power of super-high-speed Internet access to change people’s lives in inner-city neighborhoods.

11 Dec 2009