February 17, 2010 – GigOptix, Inc., today announced the release of its GX3101, a high performance universal limiting Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) designed for use in fiber optic communication systems such as Fiber Channel, Ethernet, SONET transceivers and in wireless backhaul. The GX3101 is designed to enable one solution to support a variety of optical reaches, [...]
February 16, 2010 – Spurred by the increasing consumption of multimedia content over the Internet and mobile networks in Italy, the country’s public broadcaster RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana is collaborating with Nokia Siemens Networks to develop means to enable the distribution of high-definition multimedia content through both mobile and fixed channels. The aim is to effectively [...]
February 16, 2010 – RCN Metro Optical Networks, a division of RCN Corp., in Herndon, Va., announced that Compliance, LP, a legal staffing and project management firm, has selected RCN Metro as its primary network services provider for its Washington facility. “We asked RCN Metro for assistance with installing a unique fiber-based solution that would [...]
February 11, 2010 – Zayo Bandwidth in Louisville, Co., announced that it has deployed a low latency, fiber-optic route between major carrier hotels in New York and Chicago. The route, which was built on Zayo Bandwidth’s operated network, was deployed in order to support algorithmic trading requirements for financial and carrier customers. The network not [...]
February 11, 2010 – The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is starting a new 100G project titled “VSR 28G Common Electrical Chip-to-Module Interface” that it expects will support the use of less complex, lower power 100G optical modules. Feedback from attendees at the OIF’s Common Electrical Interface (CEI) workshop, held February 1, was that a very [...]
February 11, 2010 – JDSU today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Network Solutions communications test business of Agilent, including the unit’s innovative Long Term Evolution (LTE), or 4G, network verification and deployment products, for $165 million in cash. The parties expect to close the transaction, which is subject [...]
February 10, 2010 – LeCroy Corp. has extended the capabilities of its WaveMaster 830Zi 30-GHz real-time oscilloscope by providing what it describes as a simple and fast method to combine two oscilloscopes and provide four channels at 30 GHz. This approach enables measurement and analysis of 28- to 56-Gbps IQ modulated signals where ultra-high real-time [...]
February 10, 2010 – Google announced today that it will build a series of ultra high-speed fiber optic broadband networks in the US. Google says that the FTTH wiring will offer 1Gbps speeds “more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections,” and will [...]
February 8, 2010 – JDSU has unveiled J-Complete, a suite of test applications designed to simplify the complexity of installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining carrier networks. Collectively, the test applications probe, discover, and record the health and reliability of a network by characterizing not only the transport layers, but also the higher-layer, IP/TCP-based flows that affect [...]
February 8, 2010 – The number of fixed broadband subscribers worldwide will rise to 501 million at the end of 2014 – and 106 million of them will subscribe to services delivered via fiber optic cable, say analysts at ABI Research in Singapore. This increase to 106 million fixed fiber broadband subscribers by 2014 will [...]
