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Dana Cooperson Provides 'Industry Health Check' at ECOC Market Focus Seminar

Optical communications has been a key enabler of telecom growth and will continue to offer relief to service providers squeezed between limited revenue growth and rising costs; that was the message at today's ECOC Exhibition Market Focus seminar from Dana Cooperson, VP Optical Infrastructure at influential industry analyst house Ovum.

23 Sep 2008

New Ultra Low Loss ROADM Meets Requirements for 40 Gbps Operation in Next Gen Networks

NeoPhotonics and ECI Telecom today announced here at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2008) that NeoPhotonics' new Ultra-Low Loss Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) modules are being used in ECI Telecom's XDM® Optical Networking Platform. The Ultra-Low Loss ROADM incorporates NeoPhotonics' advanced planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology to significantly reduce the insertion loss and increase the pass band, thus meeting the requirements for next generation 40 Gbps optical transmission systems.

23 Sep 2008

Applied Optoelectronics Announces Pluggable Transceiver for WDM-PONs

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI), a leading manufacturer of laser diodes, photodetectors, and optical modules for fiber optic communications systems, today announces a small form-factor pluggable transceiver designed for operation in colorless Optical Networking Terminals (ONTs) used in Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks (WDM-PONs).

22 Sep 2008

First-to-Market Extended Reach GPON Radically Changing FTTP Deployment Economics

Calix, the worldwide leader in overall gigabit passive optical network (GPON) equipment revenue (Dell'Oro Group, August 2008), today announced its latest access innovation - a first-to-market Extended Reach GPON technology based on ITU-T standards.

22 Sep 2008

CoreOptics and Partner to Enable Plug-and-Play Metro Optical Networks Based on MLSE-2

CoreOptics Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of 40 Gbps and 10 Gbps optical networking subsystems, and ADVA Optical Networking today announced joint development of the second generation of 10 Gbps Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE-2) technology on ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) platform.

22 Sep 2008

New Multi-rate 10G Physical Layer Devices Reduce Power Consumption Compared to Competing Solutions

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the industry's first family of 65 nanometer (nm) 10 Gigabit (10G) physical layer (PHY) devices that support data rates ranging from 9.953 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to 11.35 Gbps. Combining the industry's lowest power consumption with industry-leading long reach jitter performance, these next generation PHYs are fully integrated, Multi Source Agreement (MSA)-compliant devices that support multi-rate applications including OC-192 SONET/SDH, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), 10G Fibre Channel (10FC), and optical transport networks (OTN).

22 Sep 2008

Paving the Way for Next Generation Optical Networks

A new EU-funded project to boost the capacity and efficiency of the next generation of optical networks has just got underway. The PHASORS ('Phase sensitive amplifier systems and optical regenerators and their applications') initiative is funded under the 'Information and communication technology' (ICT) Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 3.9 million.

21 Sep 2008

New Line of Silicon-Based Products and Ultra VOA Arrays Now Available from AMS Technologies

A new line of silicon-based products and ultra VOA arrays is available from AMS Technologies in Germany. The manufacturer is Kotura, Inc. is a worldwide leader in silicon photonics.

20 Sep 2008

The Role of Optoelectronics in a Sustainable Future

The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) concluded its Green Photonics forum today examining the role of optoelectronics in a sustainable future. The various segments represented at the forum developed trend maps reflecting the ways that optoelectronics is enabling many aspects of the green revolution.

11 Sep 2008

Protection Switch Technology Now an Option That Can Be Integrated into New JDSU Blade

JDSU(R) today announced that it is offering protection switch technology for the JDSU AON Super Transport Blade, the new single-slot solution that integrates major optical network transport functions onto a single blade.

8 Sep 2008