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. Both companies [...]
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. To date, most reasonable price-ranged WDM-PON systems use external seed light sources. These systems are limited in transmission distance and are also exposed to vulnerability upon field conditions and critical [...]
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. FiberLight’s underground fiber optic infrastructure, representing the largest privately [...]
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. Previously, Medical [...]
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. As part of its FTTH deployment strategy, Northeast Missouri will [...]
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. With an optical bandwidth of 65 GHz, the LX8900 enables customers to modulate a signal’s phase and amplitude at [...]
Fujikura is well known within the fiber optic industry for offering top quality fusion splicers and the FSM-16S lives up to their reputation. The rugged FSM-16S fusion splicer is designed to perform flawlessly in the harshest environments. The FSM-16S offers a multitude of features including altitude and pressure compensation to ensure proper arc conditions in extreme environments.
Fujikura developed the FSM-40F fusion splicer for the high strength splicing needs of DWDM optical communication devices. The FSM-40F splices dissimilar fiber combinations, especially Erbium-doped fiber to single-mode fiber using patented sweep arc functions.
