Fiber Optic Fusion Splicer Market To Reach $550 Million In 2014

Posted under Fusion Splicers, Industry News

March 10, 2010 – ElectroniCast Consultants has released a new market forecast and analysis report that says the market for fiber-optic fusion splicers will increase to $550 million in 2014, with double-digit annual growth in all regional segments.

The global consumption value of fiber-optic fusion splice equipment in 2009 was $302 million, up slightly from 2008, [...]

Vytran Hires New North American Sales Engineer

Posted under Industry News, Vytran

March 9, 2010 – Fiber fusion splicing, assembly and fiber-based glass processing solutions supplier Vytran LLC has hired Jim Tracey as its sales engineer for North America.

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Cisco Unveils 322 Tbps CRS-3 Carrier Routing System

Posted under Industry News, Networking Equipment

March 9, 2010 – Cisco has unveiled the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) which has three times the horsepower as the previous CRS-1 platform. Cisco says the multi-chassis CRS-3 will provide 322 Tbps of capacity, which the company asserts is 12X of its closest competition.

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Jenoptik Opens New South Korean Laser Application Site

Posted under Industry News

March 9, 2010 – Jenoptik Group has opened its new sales, application and service site in South Korea for customers and interested parties in the electronic, flat panel, photovoltaic and automotive industries to test and further develop production processes and lasers.

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Agilent Technologies Introduces New Optical Modulation Analyzer

Posted under Agilent/HP, Industry News

March 8, 2010 – Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced the industry’s first system impairments analysis for chromatic dispersion (CD) and first-order polarization mode dispersion (PMD) with the N4391A optical modulation analyzer.

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ADVA Optical Networking Selected By KDDI For Managed WDM Service

Posted under Industry News

March 8, 2010 – ADVA Optical Networking announced that KDDI Corporation (KDDI), one of Japan’s largest communications service providers, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) solution as the platform for delivery of its high-availability enterprise solution called Managed WDM Service.

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IPtronics Introduces 16-Gbps Circuits For Parallel Optics

Posted under Industry News

March 8, 2010 – IPtronics has announced the availability of a 16-Gbps version of its 4- and 12-channel VCSEL drivers and TIAs for parallel optics.

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Verizon, Juniper, NEC and Finisar Complete 100G Field Trial

Posted under Industry News

March 8, 2010 – Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC Corporation of America, and Finisar Corp. say they have successfully completed what they tout as the first field trial of 100-Gbps optical fiber transmission to use real traffic while applying standards-based optics end-to-end as well as a 100G native router interface.

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Popular Science Puts Entire 137 Year Archive Online For Free

Posted under Information

March 6, 2010 – Now this is certainly exciting news! Popular Science magazine has put their entire 137-year archive of issues online for free viewing. Each issue has been fully scanned and contains all of the original content including the period advertisements!
I for one have fond memories of reading Popular Science at my local library [...]

GigOptix Introduces Dual-Channel Linear TIA

Posted under Industry News

March 5, 2010 – GigOptix Inc. has announced its GX3122 dual-channel linear Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) designed for use in next-generation 40Gb/s DWDM coherent optical receivers.

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