October 7, 2009 – At the recent 2009 Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Conference & Expo, the FTTH Council announced the 2009 recipients of its annual FTTH Awards. For seven years, the council has celebrated the contributions of individuals who have advanced the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) industry.
The winners of this year’s awards are as follows.
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October 7, 2009 – Researchers at Cornell University have developed a simple silicon device for speeding up optical data. The device incorporates a silicon chip called a “time lens,” lengths of optical fiber, and a laser. It splits up a data stream encoded at 10 gigabits per second, puts it back together, and outputs the [...]
October 6, 2009 – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to:
Charles K. Kao
Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong
“for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”
and the other half jointly to
Willard S. Boyle [...]
October 6, 2009 – Sunrise Telecom Inc., a leading network test and measurement system provider, has developed a Fibre Channel testing capability for the STT Metro. Service providers can now test up to four Fibre Channel ports simultaneously, speeding up the successful deployment of storage area networks (SANs).
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October 5, 2009 – Discovery Semiconductors Inc. says it has successfully developed quad photoreceiver arrays designed for 10- and 40-km transmission over standard singlemode fiber according to the 100 Gigabit Ethernet standard (100GBase-LR4 and 100GBase-ER4).
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October 5, 2009 – Global sales of optical transceivers are expected to reach $2.1 billion in 2009, according to the latest market forecast by opto-electronic transceiver market research company LightCounting LLC. While LightCounting said the figure represents a “minor improvement in the market outlook,” it noted that it’s a lot better than the sharp declines [...]
This is part 2 of a pretty good video guide to fiber optic fusion splicing in the field.
This is part 1 of a pretty good video guide to fiber optic fusion splicing in the field.
October 2, 2009 – Houston, TX – The year’s biggest fiber to the home (FTTH) industry event concluded today with a focus on quickening the pace of North America’s march toward next-generation, high-speed, all-fiber networks. More than 1,700 leaders and professionals from all corners of the telecommunications industry converged on the Hilton-Americas Houston and the [...]
October 2, 2009 – Avago Techologies and IPtronics announced that they are working with Intel on its Light Peak optical interconnect effort. Intel announced the project, designed to develop high-speed optical I/O technology, at its Intel Developer Forum September 23.
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