November 11, 2009 – Draka Communications, a global provider of optical fiber and cabling, is in the deployment phase of a nationwide fiber-optic infrastructure throughout the Republic of Rwanda. The implementation entails running fiber-optic cables along electricity transmission and distribution lines to link all the power plants, substations, and town offices of Rwanda’s public power [...]
November 10, 2009 – Ideal Industries Inc. has introduced its FiberTEK FDX Fiber Optic Modules designed to extend the capabilities of the company’s LanTEK II LAN Cable Certifiers from certifying copper cabling links to the certification of multimode and singlemode fiber-optic cabling to Tier 1 standards. Fitting into the unit’s adapter bay, the optional modules [...]
November 10, 2009 – ADTRAN Inc. has announced the availability of a new range of capabilities for the Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access Platform (MSAP) targeted at delivering advanced video services. These new features are optimized for fiber to the premises (FTTP)/fiber to the home (FTTH) and fiber to the node (FTTN) architectures. ADTRAN says [...]
November 9, 2009 – GigOptix Inc., a provider of electronic engines for optical networking, has released the GX3240, a differential limiting amplifier in a 3×3-mm QFN, developed in partnership with a leading Japanese telecom manufacturer for use in a 40G RZDQPSK receiver and with further applications in the microwave and instrumentation markets. GigOptix says it [...]
November 6, 2009 – Optical Cable Corp. has acquired Applied Optical Systems, Inc., a designer, developer, and manufacturer of specialty fiber-optic connectors and connectivity products for military and harsh environment applications. The acquisition was completed on October 31, 2009, and AOS is now a wholly owned subsidiary of OCC. OCC acquired Applied Optical Systems by [...]
November 5, 2009 – Radio-frequency transmission equipment developer DEV Systemtechnik says it is the first vendor to integrate the functionalities of optical signal receivers and radio-frequency (RF) signal distribution into a single unit. With the new DEV 7104 optical system, users save 3RU rack space in a cable headend. Just 4RU high, the DEV 7104 [...]
November 4, 2009 – Lexent Metro Connect, a provider of dark fiber networks in the New York metropolitan area, and Equinix Inc., a provider of global data center services, have announced that Lexent has completed an ultra low latency dark fiber connection between two Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in Secaucus, NJ, and [...]
November 4, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has released a new software suite that provides bidirectional RFC 2544 enhanced functionalities on the AXS-200/850 Ethernet Test Set, a handheld performance assessment tool designed to simplify the installation, activation, and maintenance of Ethernet networks and services. Guaranteeing end-to-end service-level agreements (SLAs) is critical for today’s carrier-grade [...]
November 2, 2009 – NetLogic Microsystems Inc. has announced the production availability of the NLP1220 dual-port 8.5-Gbps Fibre Channel PHY repeater device with an integrated low-power equalization engine. NetLogic says the NLP1220 offers best-in-class power consumption and latency to customers developing next-generation data center switches and storage host bus adapters (HBAs). The company asserts its [...]
November 2, 2009 – Electroline Equipment Inc. is offering a new optical receiver module designed to optimize the performance of RF over glass (RFoG) access networks. It is a “DeepDiving” RFoG receiver, which Electroline says means it will operate at optical input levels as low as -27 dBm and also provide excellent signal-to-noise performance. The [...]
