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.
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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.
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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.
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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 previously [...]
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.
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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 SMI [...]
