July 28, 2010 – Ericsson, a leading provider of fiber optic network solutions, has signed a contract with Radius Infratel Pvt. Ltd. of India to meet the growing demand for broadband access across India via an open access fiber to the home (FTTH) network. Radius will build on previous FTTH deployments with a new build [...]
July 27, 2010 – JDSU has introduced a new jitter feature for the JDSU Optical Network Tester series (ONT-503, 506 and 512). The module makes the ONT as the first and only jitter analysis tool able to conduct both jitter and wander measurements on 10-Gigabit Ethernet Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) devices and systems, JDSU asserts. These [...]
July 26, 2010 – Sunrise Telecom Inc. says that a Tier 1 European telecommunications carrier has selected its XTT 5000 handheld test gear. Sunrise declined to identify the carrier by name. The XTT 5000 has dual port capabilities for simultaneously testing two Fibre Channel links. The XTT 5000 also provides testing for the installation and [...]
July 21, 2010 – NTELOS Holdings Corp., a provider of wireless and wireline communications services in Virginia and West Virginia, has entered into a purchase agreement with One Communications Corp. to acquire its FiberNet business for cash consideration of approximately $170 million. The FiberNet fiber-optic network of approximately 3,500 route miles covers all of West [...]
July 21, 2010 – Ciena Corp. and Transtelco, a regional operator serving businesses and carriers along the U.S. – Mexico border, announced the implementation of a 400-kilometer high-capacity network span using Ciena’s WDM transport technology. The new link is the longest span in Transtelco’s network, adding route diversity, redundancy, and bandwidth availability. Transtelco has also [...]
July 19, 2010 – JDSU has announced three new 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) testing tools designed to accelerate the development, verification, benchmarking, and interoperability testing of next-generation converged Ethernet networks with emerging Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology. The Xgig High Density 10 GbE Load Tester Solution builds on JDSU’s storage [...]
July 19, 2010 – AFL Telecommunications has expanded its Interconnect Premise MicroCore cable product line of high-density fiber-optic cables. Now encompassing up to 48 optical fibers in a single package, the interconnect cable has an overall diameter of 4.8 mm, is approximately 20% smaller than other similar cables, and is uniquely suited to support high [...]
July 12, 2010 – Fujitsu, a leading supplier of business, information technology, and communications solutions, and Indiana University (IU) announced today the results of cutting-edge optical networking research that found Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) in fiber, which previously had been considered a minor fiber impairment, can actually have a significant effect on 40 Gbps and [...]
July 9, 2010 – Zarlink Semiconductor has introduced two new single-chip ClockCenter universal clock translator products intended to simplify design, lower power consumption, and reduce bill of material costs of multiservice platforms targeting OTN expansion. OTN is a next-generation, industry-standard protocol that provides an efficient way to deliver the full range of communication services over [...]
July 7, 2010 – LeCroy Corp. has launched the SierraFC M8-4, an 8G Fibre Channel protocol analysis platform. Operating at 2G, 4G, and 8G Fibre Channel signaling rates, 4 or 8 GB of recording memory, and either two or four recording channels, SierraFC M8-4 is designed to offer affordable, “world-class” protocol analysis capabilities in either [...]
