August 31, 2009 – Australia Japan Cable (AJC), operator of the AJC cable system between Japan and Australia, and Pacific Crossing Ltd. (PCL), the operator of the pan-Pacific PC-1, have announced the launch of their Gigabit Ethernet Service for carrier, enterprise, and ISP customers looking for connectivity options between Australia and North America.
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August 28, 2009 – Seongnam-Si, South Korea – SOLiD Technologies announced that it has succeeded in developing an advanced, state of the art WDM-PON system.
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August 27, 2009 – Ashburn, VA – Pryme Technologies has selected FiberLight, LLC, a leading optical network solutions provider, to provide the network backbone for high bandwidth transport from Pryme’s new 72,000-square-foot Colocation facility in Ashburn, Virginia, to FiberLight’s Ashburn point of presence (POP) at Equinix.
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August 26, 2009 – Medical Arts Radiology, one of the largest medical imaging groups in Long Island, has selected Optimum Lightpath, a supplier of Ethernet-based communication services for New York metropolitan area businesses, as its telecom provider. Medical Arts Radiology has replaced its traditional T1 lines with Optimum Lightpath’s 100% fiber Ethernet connection.
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August 24, 2009 – OFS and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. announced that OFS has agreed to license its U.S. Patent No. 6,131,415 and its foreign counterparts to Shin-Etsu. The patent relates to the method of manufacture of preforms with a soot-based core rod, such as vapor axial deposition (VAD) and synthetic overclad cylinder glass to [...]
August 21, 2009 – Tokyo and Kawasaki, Japan – Fujitsu Optical Components Limited and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. recently announced to jointly develop 40Gbps and 100Gbps integrated receivers. 40Gbps receivers will be used in 40Gbps optical networks whose deployment is growing constantly on a global scale; 100Gbps receivers will be used for next-generation 100Gbps optical [...]
August 20, 2009 – Occam Networks, Inc. announced today that Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone (Green City, MO) has chosen Occam’s BLC 6000 multiservice access platform and ON 2300 series optical network terminals to upgrade the second largest of its 14 exchanges from copper to fiber.
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August 17, 2009 – GigOptix Inc. has announced that Photon-X, a manufacturer of advanced fiber-optic and radio-frequency (RF) photonic devices and subsystems, will use its 100G LX8900 Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) in developing new RF photonic devices.
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