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Using Light Instead of Wires to Send Information

IBM Researchers today unveiled a prototype technology that could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy efficient way to all kinds of machines -- from supercomputers to cell phones -- that could revolutionize the way people access, use and share information across many different applications.

29 Feb 2008

PureGain Protects Optical Networks From Hazards Associated With Power Transients

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, today supplemented its OASIS EDFA portfolio by unveiling its compact power transient-suppressed EDFA at OFC/NFOEC 2008 Expo.

28 Feb 2008

Avanex Corporation Announces Shipments of Next-Generation TDC Products

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, today announced commercial shipments of next-generation tunable dispersion compensation (TDC) products into major OEM customers for 40Gb/s applications.

28 Feb 2008

The PowerPort XFP Provide Cost-Effective Solutions for Transmission Networks

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions that enable next-generation optical networks, today announced at OFC/NFOEC 2008 Expo the release of new 10G XFP transceivers suitable for 40km and 80km transmission applications in access and metropolitan networks.

28 Feb 2008

Landmark Research Partnership on Emerging Areas of All-Optical Networking

The Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR), headquartered in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, has announced that it has entered into a landmark research partnership with NEC Communication Systems, Ltd. (NCOS), part of Japanese technology giant NEC Group, focused on the emerging area of all-optical networking.

28 Feb 2008

Breakthroughs in Optical Networking and Optoelectronic Components

Alcatel-Lucent today announced, in four post deadline papers accepted at the OFC/NFOEC conference in San Diego, California, new optical networking milestones, including a new optical transmission record and three novel new photonic integrated circuits.

28 Feb 2008

FTTH Network Delivers Advanced Broadband Services to Local Residents

ECI Telecom, a global provider of networking infrastructure, today announced it has partnered with Fibra Networks AS, a Norwegian network builder and supplier of fiber optics, to build its first gigabit passive optical network (GPON) in Norway.

27 Feb 2008

High Power Multimode Pump Module Offering Pp to 6W of Power

Bookham, Inc., today announced the launch of a fully qualified high power multimode pump module offering up to 6W power. The pump module, designed to provide the power and reliability required for pumping next generation amplifiers in cable and FTTx networks, offers a 50% power increase from the previous generation of Bookham multimode pump modules, and is thought to be the highest power telecom grade multimode pump module in the industry.

27 Feb 2008

Technology Breaks Through Last Bottleneck to Network Automation

With more and more optical network automation, one task has remained manual: fiber connections. But now, as the result of research conducted by Verizon, that is likely to change.

26 Feb 2008

Revolutionizing Service Provider ROI

Teknovus, the leading provider of Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (G-EPON) chips for the deployment of triple-play services in broadband access networks, today announced the TK3723, its third-generation EPON Optical Line Terminal (OLT) chip with two dual-speed Turbo-EPONTM MACs and multi-service traffic management and shaping.

26 Feb 2008