Agilent Technologies Offers Most Accurate Transceiver Characterization Solution For 16x Fibre Channel

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September 18, 2009 – Santa Clara, CA – Agilent Technologies Inc. recently announced the expansion of its J-BERT N4903B high-performance serial BERT for 16x Fibre Channel transceiver testing. Design and test engineers in communications, storage and computing, and consumer industries can now accurately characterize and test interoperability of next-generation serial interfaces operating between 150 Mb/s [...]

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Luna Technologies Launches New Optical Vector Analyzer

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September 17, 2009 – Luna Technologies, an industry-leading developer of advanced solutions for fiber optic test and measurement systems and a division of Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA), today announced its newest product in the Optical Vector Analyzer platform, the OVA 5000. This instrument is the fastest, most accurate and economical tool for loss, dispersion [...]

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MRV Debuts Next-Gen Fiber Driver Optical Media Converters For Telecom Networks

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September 14, 2009 – MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC., today announced the Fiber Driver EM316T1E1-XY, the second in a family of next-generation optical media converters with multiple operating modes to meet the needs of evolving carrier networks. MRV is a leading networking company with a full line of packet-optical transport (POTS), carrier Ethernet, 40G networking and out-of-band [...]

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Zayo Group Acquires FiberNet Telecom Group

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September 11, 2009 – New York, NY – FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. today announced that Zayo Group, LLC has completed its acquisition of FiberNet in a merger transaction valued at approximately $90.7 million. FiberNet stockholders approved the transaction at a special stockholder meeting held on September 9, 2009, and the merger was effective as of [...]

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GigOptix Introduces GX6261 Driver For 40G DQPSK Optical Networks

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September 10, 2009 – GigOptix Inc. (OTCBB: GGOX) today announced the availability for sampling of the GX6261, a 40Gb/s Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK) modulator driver in Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) for metro and long-haul optical transponders. Because of its spectral efficiency and tolerance to various dispersion mechanisms over long reaches, DQPSK modulation is [...]

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DSM And Telcordia Team Up To Standardize Fiber Optic Cable Microbending Specification

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September 8, 2009 – DSM Desotech, a developer and supplier of UV-curable fiber-optic materials, has announced today that they will work with Telcordia Technologies Inc. to drive standardization for the characterization of microbending performance in optical fiber and cable products. Microbending occurs when numerous random microscopic bends develop along the optical fiber axis. The cumulative [...]

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Fujikura To Unveil New Optical Fiber Identifiers At ECOC

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September 4, 2009 – Fujikura Europe Ltd. is to launch two new highly advanced and feature rich Optical Fiber Identifiers at ECOC in Vienna later this month (stand 417). The FID-25R and FID-26R are thought to be the most highly developed Optical Fiber Identifiers yet to be offered to the market. Their high-sensitivity allows signal [...]

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Transmode Launches Industry’s First Optical Multi-Service Mobile Backhaul Solution

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September 3, 2009 – Transmode, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, today announced the launch of its Multi-Service Mobile Backhaul Solution. This unique WDM over fiber solution provides “hybrid” native support of both TDM and Ethernet traffic and supports multiple synchronization streams per wavelength. It therefore enables a smooth migration to Ethernet or all-IP [...]

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