December 15, 2009 – “We can bring fiber optic cables to every home in Israel – if only they let us,” Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) (TASE: ELEC.B22) CEO Amos Lasker told Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon today. Lasker was updating Kahlon on the economic benefits of combining their infrastructure with IEC’s in order to encourage [...]
December 15, 2009 – Communication services provider Optimum Lightpath says it is utilizing equipment from Tellabs in its optical network to deliver high-bandwidth services to businesses in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. “We are committed to continuously improving our network to enhance speed, flexibility, and quality of service for our smart business customers as [...]
December 14, 2009 – Alpheus Communications, a Houston, Texas-based telecommunications and fiber optic network provide, reportedly announced its selection by HyperCube, LLC a provider of local and national tandem services to network carriers, to offer vital network services to meet HyperCube’s voice traffic growth needs. Alpheus’s high speed optical network will be used by HyperCube [...]
December 14, 2009 – Nortel says it has unveiled the industry’s first commercially available 100G solution and announced that Verizon has deployed the system in its live customer network in Europe. Nortel’s 100G system uses technology that allows service providers to increase the bandwidth of typical 10G infrastructure by ten times without the need to [...]
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Dec 11, 2009 – Adtran, Inc., a supplier of next-generation networking solutions, announced an IEEE 1613-compliant model of its OPTI-6100 Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP). The company said components of this OPTI-6100 platform have been designed and tested to comply with the IEEE 1613, “Standard Environmental and Testing Requirements for Communications Networking Devices in Electric Power [...]
December 11, 2009 – Nanotech Semiconductor Ltd., a fabless IC company specializing in advanced CMOS analog and mixed-signal ICs for fiber-optic communications, has released the NT24L55, a high-sensitivity, low-power, pure CMOS 1.25-Gbps transimpedance amplifier (TIA) targeting the latest generation of GEPON networks. The NT24L55 builds on Nanotech’s portfolio of CMOS TIAs for datacom, telecom, and [...]
Dec 11, 2009 – Avalon has developed their first working 100GE over OTN transponder application, using their industry-leading Zenobia Virtual Application-Specific Standard Product (V-ASSP) in conjunction with the “Cobra” 100G demonstration platform. Recently showcased at SUPERCOMM 2009 in Chicago, this application maps a 100GE client signal via GMP and transports it over OTU4. The Cobra [...]
December 10, 2009 – Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Incorporated’s Telecommunications segment, will supply product and design assistance to Case Western Reserve University and its partners in an initiative to test the power of super-high-speed Internet access to change people’s lives in inner-city neighborhoods. The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at [...]
December 9, 2009 – Optelian says its LightGAIN Optical Transport System has been verified by Brocade Communications Systems Inc. as being compatible with Brocade-based storage-area networking (SAN) infrastructures, in accordance with the testing requirements of the Brocade Data Center Ready Program. The program is an initiative designed to foster interoperability in multi-vendor, Brocade-based data center [...]
