March 17, 2010 – EXFO Inc. announced that it has added optical transport network (OTN) testing capabilities to its FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer 100G/40G Ethernet Test Modules. These include OTU4 (111.81 Gbps) and OTU3 (43.018 Gbps) full-line-rate testing, as well as framing and forward error correction (FEC) testing as per ITU-T G.709.
The new features enable qualification [...]
March 17, 2010 – Corning Inc. has announced that effective April 1, 2010, ClearCurve multimode optical fiber will become its standard 50-micron multimode fiber product offering.
Introduced in 2009, ClearCurve multimode fiber is the world’s first laser-optimized, high-bandwidth, multimode fiber to withstand bends at 7.5 mm radius with substantially less signal loss than traditional multimode fibers.
“Corning’s [...]
March 17, 2010 – Oclaro, Inc. has announced its first 40G RZ-DQPSK indium phosphide based transponder qualified to Telcordia standards. Designed to deliver high performance in a low-cost, 300-pin multi-source agreement (MSA) platform, the new TL9040 transponder modules are currently shipping to Tier 1 customers for field deployments.
Oclaro’s new multi-rate adaptable 43-Gbps RZ-DQPSK transponder is [...]
March 17, 2010 – DiCon Fiberoptics has released a new MEMS 1×56 fiber-optic switch for applications such as FTTH monitoring. Housed in a compact module, the optical switch features reliable optical performance with internal components that are Telcordia GR-1221 qualified, DiCon asserts.
“Based on DiCon’s proven, proprietary MEMS technology, the high port count of our 1×56 [...]
March 17, 2010 – Discovery Semiconductors Inc. plans to introduce three new bench-top test instruments at next week’s OFC/NFOEC conference in San Diego, CA.
The HLPD (Highly Linear Photodiode) Lab Buddy is a temperature and bias-controlled instrument designed to offer linear performance to >1.5 V output and 22 GHz of RF bandwidth.
The APD Lab Buddy is [...]
March 17, 2010 – JDSU will highlight solutions from its optical communications and communications test and measurement portfolios at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in San Diego from March 23-25. Conference attendees are invited to visit JDSU at booth #2015 during the event to see its latest technology offerings.
JDSU will [...]
March 16, 2010 – Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that the accurate, fast acquisition system of the Tektronix DPO72004B oscilloscope combined with OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers from Optametra deliver unprecedented ability to visualize and measure coherent polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK) signals in realtime.
Tektronix and [...]
March 16, 2010 – The Light Brigade unveiled a new website and their new four-day technical training course entitled, “Fiber Optics for Utilities”. The course is specifically developed to help the power utilities address their training needs to increase deployment speed and reduce operation costs by improving the fiber optic technology skills of their [...]
March 16, 2010 – Pangaea Networks, a niche provider of carrier class Ethernet local loop services in the New York City and New Jersey markets, announced the launch of their PANMetro dedicated 10 Gigabit Ethernet ring service in Manhattan. With the Multi-Gig service platform, carriers and end-users can deploy multiple Ethernet circuits with capacities greater [...]
March 15, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has announced the availability of a software release that introduces new OTN testing capabilities to its Transport Blazer and Power Blazer product lines.
EXFO’s Transport Blazer and Power Blazer product lines already offer OTN testing capabilities. However, the new software release will add support the OTU1f and OTU2f test interfaces, [...]
