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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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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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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Anritsu Introduces New CMA5000a Network Testing Software
March 2, 2010 – Anritsu has unveiled Channel Stats software for its CMA5000a Multilayer Network Test Platform which has been designed to make it easier, faster, and more cost-efficient to measure 10-GbE networks.
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Sumitomo Electric’s PureAccess R5 Optical Fiber Exceeds ITU-T G.657.B3 Standard
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 [...]
Corning Cable Systems To Present New OSP Line
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.
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JDSU Selected For Mobile Backhaul Transition
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.
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JDSU Unveils J-Complete Suite For Carrier Network Testing
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.
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JDSU Adds 10 GigE Features to T-BERD/MTS-8000 Platform
February 4, 2010 – Milpitas, Calif. – JDSU today introduced the Dual Module Carrier (DMC) for the T-BERD/MTS-8000 platform, the industry’s only portable test solution offering concurrent capture/decode and TCP WireSpeed testing on two 10 GigE ports. A complete 10M to 10 GigE, DS1/E1 to OC-192/STM-64, OTN, PDH, Next Generation SONET/SDH and Fibre Channel test [...]
JDSU Introduces Next-Gen WSS Module For Optical Networks
February 3, 2010 – JDS Uniphase Corp. (JDSU) in Milpitas, Calif., is introducing the Mini 50 GHz wavelength selective switch (WSS) module in a smaller package than its predecessors with support for sophisticated mesh network architectures.
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