November 20, 2009 – Infinera’s ATN metro edge platform has been accepted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Program as suitable for deployment under the USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) telecom programs. The USDA’s Rural Development Telecommunications program provides loans and grants to support the extension of broadband networks into rural areas and [...]
November 19, 2009 – LS Cable said yesterday that it has completed construction of a subsea cable manufacturing plant, the first of its kind in Korea and the fourth in the world, in a bid to crack the market dominated by European companies. The 180 billion won ($156 million) factory, which is located in Donghae [...]
November 19, 2009 – PMC-Sierra Inc. says that Aztech, a broadband equipment manufacturer based in Singapore, has selected PMC-Sierra’s chips for its new GPON FTTH optical network terminal (ONT) design. Aztech’s GPON 200E4 – 4 Port Gigabit Bridge ONT is built around PMC-Sierra’s PAS7401 SoC and targets residential and SOHO FTTH deployments where maximum performance [...]
November 18, 2009 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold a staff workshop tomorrow, November 19, to learn more about the current experience with and future possibilities of advanced fiber networks. Entitled “Future Fiber Architectures and Local Deployment Choices,” the FCC says the goal of the workshop will be to understand fiber and partial [...]
November 18, 2009 – Molex Inc. has introduced the iPass+ High-Speed Channel (HSC) pluggable CXP copper and optical interconnect system, designed to enable 12 channels of 10-Gbps data for up to 120 Gbps of total bandwidth. The iPass+ CXP provides both optical and copper direct attach options for the same system port, thereby increasing the [...]
November 17, 2009 – G4S, which specializes in outsourced business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat, says it has acquired Adesta LLC and Adesta LP from McCarthy Group Inc. and a group of senior management employees for $66 million in cash. Adesta had revenues of $92 million in [...]
November 17, 2009 – Finisar is holding the first public demonstration of a 120-Gbps CXP-to-QSFP active breakout cable at the SuperComputing 2009 (SC09) exhibition. The active optical cable contains a single CXP transceiver at one end and three 40-Gbps QSFP transceivers at the other end to provide flexibility in high performance computing and network infrastructure [...]
November 16, 2009 – Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world’s thinking on what light is capable of. The researchers in the University’s new Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) have discovered that light within optical fibers can be squeezed into much tighter spaces than was [...]
November 13, 2009 – Berk-Tek, a leading provider of fiber optic cabling solutions, says that its fiber-optic cable family includes fiber grades that exceed the recently ratified TIA-492AAAD for OM4 specifications. OM4 fiber is a 50-µm laser-optimized multimode fiber with extended bandwidth properties over the previous OM3. It is designed to enhance the system cost [...]
November 12, 2009 – Narda, an L-3 Communications company, has introduced the Model FO-MDA-20-25DD-1, a dual-channel DQPSK modulator driver for 40- and 100-Gbps optical transponder applications. The device has been tested at data rates as high as 113 Gbps, demonstrating “excellent performance,” the company says. The FO-MDA-20-25DD-1 is designed to interface with a Sierra Monolithics [...]
