September 1, 2010 – Reservation Telephone Cooperative (RTC), a provider of broadband services to rural communities in central North Dakota, is using fiber connectivity and management gear manufactured by ADC to build its fiber to the premises (FTTP) network.
RTC serves 19 communities via 20 exchanges and nearly 9,000 access lines. The FTTP project, launched in [...]
August 31, 2010 – FPGA maker Achronix Semiconductor and module optical supplier Opticomp have demonstrated a platform for developing, characterizing, and demonstrating high-speed optical data communication equipment designs. The 120-Gbps multi-port system (expandable to 160 Gbps) can be used with individual optical modules or with multiple 40-Gbps optical paths connected together into a network, the [...]
August 30, 2010 – Timbercon, Inc., a leading fiber optic product and solution manufacturer headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon, was ranked on Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America list for the fourth year in a row. Timbercon ranked 3316 for 2010.
“We are thrilled to be named by Inc. Magazine as one of the [...]
August 26, 2010 – FiberLight, LLC, announced today it has begun construction of a 46-mile direct connection from Culpeper, Virginia to Charlottesville, Virginia. The completely underground fiber optic network will use enhanced fiber for lower latency and provide a diverse route to companies in Charlottesville seeking mission critical, high capacity optical transport to the greater [...]
August 25, 2010 – Sunrise Telecom Inc. has announced the availability of the palm-sized SunLite UDSL service verification test instrument. The introduction is in response to service providers’ need to control capital and operating costs by enabling a single, compact device to test the multiple DSL standards being deployed for triple-play services, including those associated [...]
August 24, 2010 – AFL Telecommunications is launching two new fiber-optic fusion splicers: the FSM-100M and the FSM-100P for splicing polarization maintaining (PM) fibers. Both new specialty fiber fusion splicers, branded as the ARCMaster family, are designed to address the splicing needs for factory, manufacturing, laboratory, and R&D applications.
“The 100M and 100P series splicers further [...]
August 24, 2010 – MRV Ccommunications has announced that its line of digital video small form-factor pluggable (SFP) interfaces used for transporting serial digital interface (SDI) and high-definition serial digital interface (HD-SDI) video over any fiber-optic network, has been granted United States patent No. 7,688,231. MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of optical communication [...]
August 23, 2010 – Digital Lightwave Inc. has expanded its Fibre Channel test options for the NIC Platform. The expansion enables support all optical Fibre Channel line rates from 1G to 10G within new or existing NIC products, Digital Lightwave says.
“We are excited to announce that the addition of the 8G and 10G Fibre Channel [...]
August 19, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has announced that it has implemented packet-capture capabilities across its entire Ethernet test portfolio. The new feature is designed to enable field technicians to easily capture and decode 10-Mbps to 10-Gbps Ethernet traffic at full line rate to isolate and analyze application-layer configuration problems.
By adding packet-capture and decode capabilities [...]
August 19, 2010 – Omega Optical Inc. announced that it has won a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Cancer Institute to develop a high-speed fiber optic-based optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) that will be interfaced to confocal scanning microscopy and endoscopy systems.
Teaming up with Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Spectral Molecular Imaging (SMI), [...]
