September 30, 2009 – OFS, a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber-optic network products, is now offering its enhanced MiDia FX PLUS cable, available with up to 144 fiber counts for expanded use in air-blown microduct installations, including networks in heavily congested metropolitan areas. According to OFS, the lightweight, flexible design of MiDia FX PLUS [...]
September 29, 2009 – Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (Hitachi-CTA) has revealed that Hitachi’s Node+Zero RF over glass (RFoG) module has been accepted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) for use on projects funded by the Rural Telecom Infrastructure and by the Broadband Loan and Loan Guarantee Programs. The Node+Zero joins [...]
September 28, 2009 – Under the banner “Building the Business of FTTH,” the 2009 Fiber to the Home Conference & Expo opened today in Houston with attendance as strong as ever for the year’s biggest FTTH event, say event organizers. Despite the economic downturn, registration for the conference and trade show matches the totals for [...]
September 24, 2009 – FiberLight, a provider of optical transport services in 21 metro areas throughout the Southern United States, has extended its fiber inside the D.R. Horton Tower at 301 Commerce Street, Ft. Worth, TX. This represents the 69th building FiberLight connects to in the greater Dallas/Ft. Worth market, further enabling FiberLight’s customer access [...]
September 23, 2009 – JDSU says it has met the Telcordia qualification requirements for a new 980-nm pump laser package, called the SP Platform. The new pump laser package is designed to help network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) lower costs and power consumption within optical networks. The company says it will also be able to reduce [...]
September 23, 2009 – Intel is working on a new optical interconnect that could possibly link mobile devices to displays and storage up to 100 meters away, a company official said on Wednesday. The company is researching the Light Peak optical interconnect technology, which could communicate data between systems and devices associated with PCs at [...]
September 22, 2009 – Optical components manufacturer Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. is expanding its optical transceiver portfolio with the introduction of a 40-Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) CFP module for 10-km transmission. Sumitomo’s transceiver complies with the 40GbE standard under discussion in the IEEE 802 committee. In order to respond to 2010′s shortage of transmission capacity due [...]
September 21, 2009 – Optametra has announced the availability of its OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers with bit rates to 112 Gbps (100G DP-QPSK). The higher data rate is also available as an upgrade to those who have already purchased the OM4005 and OM4006 40G analyzers, announced previously at OFC/NFOEC 2009. Both the [...]
September 21, 2009 – Anritsu Corp. has introduced the new 56-Gbps mux/demux modules to its MP1800 signal quality analyzer. To overcome the price/performance issues that have slowed down 40G networks deployment since 2001, new standards use WDM transmission equipment and phase-modulation technologies to implement more robust and easier-to-maintain transmission, even with the next to come [...]
September 18, 2009 – Sturbridge, MA – OFS, designer, manufacturer and supplier of leading edge fiber optic network products, today announced that it will exhibit its LaserWave 550 laser-optimized OM4 multimode fiber at the BICSI Fall Conference held Sept. 20 – 24 in Las Vegas (Booth 313). LaserWave 550 fiber is designed to enable low [...]
