March 30, 2010 – The FTTH Council has announced that President Joe Savage has resigned, effective at the end of this year. Applications are now being accepted for his replacement. Mr. Savage has served as president of the council since 2006. The council hopes to be able to announce his successor at the 2010 FTTH [...]
March 30, 2010 – Finisar Corp., a leading er of high-speed optical communications, working with EXFO Inc. and Ixia, demonstrated a standards-compliant 100G Ethernet (100GE) optical link at OFC in San Diego last week. The demonstration consisted of an Ixia “K2″ 100G tester and an EXFO 40G/100G Ethernet Packet Blazer tester communicating error-free at 103.1 [...]
March 29, 2010 – Conolog Corporation, an engineering and design company that provides digital signal processing solutions to global electric utilities, announced today that it has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its “GlowWorm” fiber optic detector. President of Conolog Marc Benou stated, “Our “GlowWorm” detector, which completed field [...]
March 29, 2010 – US Conec has announced the immediate availability of its PRIZM LightTurn connector for photonic turn parallel optic interconnect. Designed as a miniature detachable connector for Avago Technologies’ new MicroPOD 120-Gbps board-mounted parallel optic modules, the PRIZM LightTurn connector provides passive alignment and retention features that enable multiple re-matings perpendicular to the [...]
March 29, 2010 – RCN Metro Optical Networks, an industry-leading provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, announced today that it is expanding its network into Concord, NH. With the addition of the Concord Central Office, RCN Metro now serves 144 Central Offices across its network footprint. RCN Metro has a unique depth of experience in [...]
March 26, 2010 – OFS has published research on various designs for next-generation transmission fiber for coherent optical communications. Prototype OFS fibers with ultra-large effective area and reduced attenuation were featured at OFC in a live demonstration of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) coherent transmission and in three post-deadline research papers on 200 and 400 [...]
March 26, 2010 – Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has developed a dual-rate, burst-mode optical transceiver that enables the coexistence of GE-PON and 10G-EPON, which is used in optical line terminals. This announcement is being made at OFC/NFOEC2010 (Optical Fiber Communication Conference and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference) in San Diego. Company officials anticipate that the [...]
March 25, 2010 – Sumitomo Electric Lightwave has introduced the Lynx2 CustomFit splice-on connector with three connector types, SC, LC, and FC for single-mode, 50 and 62.5 micron multimode, and gigabit laser optimized multimode fiber types. The Lynx2 splice connector eliminates the need for crimping for customized FTTx, outside plant, and inside plant field terminations. [...]
March 25, 2010 – Marvell, a leading producer of integrated silicon solutions, recently introduced the newest members of its Alaska family of secure optical Ethernet transceivers for datacenters and carrier networks. These four new Alaska products are intended to be the world’s first commercially available transceivers to cover applications at 10G, 1G and 100Mb Ethernet [...]
March 23, 2010 – OFS has released their active clad alignment FITEL S153A handheld fusion splicer to the North American market at OFC/NFOEC 2010 in booth #1023. The company also unveiled the FITEL S178 fusion splicer in January 2010. OFS engineered the two fusion splicing machines to endure harsh operating conditions by improving shock/impact resistance [...]
