December 30, 2009 – II-VI Incorporated (Saxonburg, PA) said that it will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Photop Technologies, Inc. (Photop) for $45.6 million and 1,150,000 shares of II-VI common stock. The agreement also provides for earn-out opportunities based upon Photop achieving certain future financial targets. The agreement has been approved by the [...]
December 29, 2009 – GPON semiconductor and software supplier BroadLight has announced the successful integration of its BL2348 GPON residential gateway device and Ralink Technology’s RT3062 300-Mbps 802.11n Wi-Fi chip. The resulting integrated reference design offers an approach towards a high-performance, cost-optimized residential gateway for voice, video, and data services to the home over a [...]
December 27, 2009 – The first broadband stimulus grants and loans made under the Recovery Act indicate that the agencies responsible for those programs are looking to fiber-optic technology to meet the goals of job creation and economic development, according to the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council. “Given the large number of applications and the broad range [...]
December 23, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent says it has enhanced its optical networking portfolio with coherent receiver technology that enables operators to deal, in a cost-effective and automated manner, with transmission impairments which become extremely severe at speeds of 100 Gbps and higher. Leveraging what the company described as “advanced developments and proprietary algorithms in digital [...]
December 21, 2009 – Sorrento Networks says that Spiralight Network, LLC, an optical transport service provider based in the upper Midwest United States, has selected Sorrento’s GigaMux 6400 to enhance service reliability and high-speed transport services for its network customers based in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Spiralight’s services include wavelength, SONET, Ethernet, Fast/Gigabit Ethernet, and [...]
December 21, 2009 – The active optical cable (AOC) market will predominantly use InfiniBand to interconnect supercomputer systems through 2012, according to the AOC report by LightCounting LLC. Other commercial protocols, such as Gigabit Ethernet, SAS, Fibre Channel, and PCI Express, will not reach significant volumes until 2012. By 2013, the active optical cable segment [...]
December 17, 2009 – JDSU has introduced a field-interchangeable, single-slot optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) module for the T-BERD/MTS-4000 platform. According to the company, the module supports cost-effective deployment and support of metro and FTTX by combining OTDR, power meter, and laser source capabilities in a single instrument. With all the features of the T-BERD/MTS-4000 – [...]
December 17, 2009 – 3S PHOTONICS, French manufacturer of optical and optoelectronic components for telecommunications networks, has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire Avensys Group subsidiaries, Avensys Inc. and ITF Laboratories Inc., for a total of EUR 6.5 million. The holding company Avensys Corp., formerly quoted on the Nasdaq, owns two companies: Avensys [...]
December 16, 2009 – Texas A&M University is upgrading from CWDM to DWDM within a new metropolitan area network (MAN) built on ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 platform. The new DWDM deployment is immediately capable of supporting 40 wavelengths and is expandable to 80 wavelengths. It can support 10-, 40-, and 100-Gbps transponders as well [...]
December 16, 2009 – Lightower Fiber Networks, a fiber network and bandwidth service provider serving the northeast United States, has successfully tested the use of 100-Gbps (100G) technology on its existing optical network. Conducted over a period of four days using Nortel’s (OTC: NRTLQ) commercially available 100G technology, Lightower sent production network traffic error-free over [...]
