Vytran Hires New North American Sales Engineer
March 9, 2010 – Fiber fusion splicing, assembly and fiber-based glass processing solutions supplier Vytran LLC has hired Jim Tracey as its sales engineer for North America.
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Cisco Unveils 322 Tbps CRS-3 Carrier Routing System
March 9, 2010 – Cisco has unveiled the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) which has three times the horsepower as the previous CRS-1 platform. Cisco says the multi-chassis CRS-3 will provide 322 Tbps of capacity, which the company asserts is 12X of its closest competition.
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Jenoptik Opens New South Korean Laser Application Site
March 9, 2010 – Jenoptik Group has opened its new sales, application and service site in South Korea for customers and interested parties in the electronic, flat panel, photovoltaic and automotive industries to test and further develop production processes and lasers.
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Agilent Technologies Introduces New Optical Modulation Analyzer
March 8, 2010 – Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced the industry’s first system impairments analysis for chromatic dispersion (CD) and first-order polarization mode dispersion (PMD) with the N4391A optical modulation analyzer.
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ADVA Optical Networking Selected By KDDI For Managed WDM Service
March 8, 2010 – ADVA Optical Networking announced that KDDI Corporation (KDDI), one of Japan’s largest communications service providers, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) solution as the platform for delivery of its high-availability enterprise solution called Managed WDM Service.
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IPtronics Introduces 16-Gbps Circuits For Parallel Optics
March 8, 2010 – IPtronics has announced the availability of a 16-Gbps version of its 4- and 12-channel VCSEL drivers and TIAs for parallel optics.
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Verizon, Juniper, NEC and Finisar Complete 100G Field Trial
March 8, 2010 – Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC Corporation of America, and Finisar Corp. say they have successfully completed what they tout as the first field trial of 100-Gbps optical fiber transmission to use real traffic while applying standards-based optics end-to-end as well as a 100G native router interface.
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GigOptix Introduces Dual-Channel Linear TIA
March 5, 2010 – GigOptix Inc. has announced its GX3122 dual-channel linear Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) designed for use in next-generation 40Gb/s DWDM coherent optical receivers.
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M2 Optics Introduces Rugged Fiber Optic Test Platform
March 4, 2010 – M2 Optics, a leading provider of innovative test solutions for fiber optics systems, has released a ruggedized version of its popular FiberLab testing platform – the Fiber Lab 800HE. This platform targets applications where rough handling and harsh conditions are common, such as field and laboratory testing, manufacturing environments, and military [...]
Sumitomo Electric and JDSU Demo Error-Free 100-Gigabit Ethernet Transmission
March 3, 2010 – Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. and JDSU have announced the successful transmission of IEEE-compliant 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) optics. The demonstration included transmitting and receiving Ethernet traffic at 100GbE through a Sumitomo LR4 100GbE CFP Multi-Source Agreement (CFP MSA) compliant optical module using the JDSU Optical Network Test instrument.
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