February 26, 2010 – GAO Tek Inc. has added an upgraded optical fiber identifier to its product line. The optical fiber identifier uses safe and reliable macro bending technology to avoid the disruption of network communications that would result from disconnecting or cutting a fiber optic cable for identification and testing. This technologically advanced optical [...]
February 25, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent announced at FTTH Council Europe in Lisbon, Portugal that it has enhanced its portfolio of gigabit passive optical network (GPON)-based optical network terminals (ONTs). The addition of eight new models enables the company to respond to service providers’ specific ONT-requests in record time and fully support their aggressive time-to-market objectives [...]
February 24, 2010 – Laser Photonics, a leading manufacturer of fiber and CO2 laser equipment for material processing, announced today that they have named David Porter as their new CEO. Prior to joining Laser Photonics, Porter worked for more than six years with Harland Clarke Holdings Corp., serving as president of Scantron Corp., senior vice [...]
February 24, 2010 – Draka Communications announced an extension to its indoor solutions portfolio with the addition of five new FTTH connectivity boxes for multi-dwelling units (MDUs). Together with Draka indoor cabling systems the new boxes fulfill requirements for an integrated solution within MDUs. These ergonomically designed Indoor cabling boxes are being showcased by Draka [...]
February 23, 2010 – Net Optics Inc. has announced a new 40G fiber tap for high-performance networks. Net Optics says its 40G monitoring access offering can be deployed across the entire network infrastructure to improve network and application performance, increase IT staff efficiency, and reduce business risk. The new 40G tap is designed to provide [...]
February 22, 2010 – Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. says that its PureAccess-R5 bending loss insensitive singlemode optical fiber is fully compliant with the new ITU-T G.657.B3 recommended standard for macrobend at a 5-mm radius. In fact it demonstrates lower attenuation and bending loss at the 1550- and 1625-nm wavelengths and a higher proof stress level [...]
February 19, 2010 – Corning Cable Systems GmbH & Co KG, part of Corning Inc.’s (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, will present its new Multi Fiber Preconnectorized OSP line at the FTTH Council Europe Conference 2010 on Feb. 24-25, in Lisbon, Portugal. The Multi Fiber Preconnectorized OSP offering is designed to enable outside plant (OSP) fiber access [...]
February 19, 2010 – Yenista Optics SA announced today that it has released its WSM-160, a manual optical tunable filter. Tunable filters have always been used in optical manufacturing and laboratories, says Yenista, mainly to extract one channel from a DWDM signal or to cut adjacent ASE noise induced by amplifiers. With the development of [...]
February 18, 2010 – Draka Communications has extended its solutions for next-generation broadband deployment with SmartDrawXS. SmartDrawXS is designed to reduce the need for skilled labor when branching fiber to customer premises, which can result in FTTH branching savings of between 15 and 30 percent. “For Draka, SmartDrawXS is another small step in providing a [...]
February 17, 2010 – JDSU announced today that it was recently selected by “a major mobile communications service provider” to support the service provider’s mobile backhaul transition from TDM to Ethernet. JDSU’s NetComplete Ethernet OAM service assurance offering, which includes tools for Ethernet test, performance, and service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring, was selected to enable the [...]
