January 30, 2010 – Pennsylvania State University has developed a new type of indoor optical wireless network that doesn’t require line of sight and runs at speeds in excess of 1Gbps. The networking setup uses multi-element transmitters and multi-branch optical receivers in a quasi-diffuse configuration and has the strong potential to replace Wi-Fi. The [...]
January 28, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent announced today that Dr. Randy Giles, director of the optical subsystems and advanced photonics department at Bell Laboratories, has received the 2010 John Tyndall Award, one of the most prestigious commendations in the optical telecommunications community.
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January 28, 2010 — MSO optical equipment provider Aurora Networks, Inc. says it has received ISO 9001:2008 Certification. The certification affirms that the company’s quality management system meets the qualifications for the globally accepted International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.
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January 27, 2010 – Conolog Corporation, an engineering and design company that provides digital signal processing solutions to global electric utilities, announced today that it has completed field testing and started production of its “GlowWorm” fiber optic detector that may be used in any fiber optic line or network without the need to cut the [...]
January 27, 2010 – FiberLight LLC, an optical networking provider, is constructing a new 100-mile, diverse network linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C.
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January 26, 2010 – Windstream Corp. plans to invest approximately $20 million in 2010 to expand its fiber network to offer customers advanced technology, improved reliability, and faster data speeds.
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January 25, 2010 – Avago Technologies has further expanded its family of SFP+ optical transceiver modules for 10-Gbps Ethernet equipment designs. The new SFP+ transceiver series include the 10/1-Gbps dual-rate AFCT-701SDDZ 10GBase-Long Range (LR) singlemode and AFBR-703SDDZ 10GBase-Short Range (SR) multimode fiber transceivers for use in enterprise and data center applications. The dual-rate operation is [...]
January 25, 2010 – Imec and its associated laboratory INTEC at the Ghent University have paved the way for optical packet switching with reduced overall power consumption in high-speed, high-data rate optical telecommunication systems, according to an Imec representative.
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January 22, 2010 – Ocean Optics announced availability today of a light-measurement system for spectroradiometric analysis of LEDs, lamps, flat panel displays and other radiant sources, as well as solar radiation. With its small footprint, powerful microprocessor and low-power display, the new Jaz-ULM-200 is a convenient, versatile alternative to standard light meters and radiometers.
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January 21, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent announced that Nextgen Networks will deploy several of its optical platforms as part of the first building block of the National Broadband Network (NBN) on mainland Australia.
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