March 17, 2010 – EXFO Inc. announced that it has added optical transport network (OTN) testing capabilities to its FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer 100G/40G Ethernet Test Modules. These include OTU4 (111.81 Gbps) and OTU3 (43.018 Gbps) full-line-rate testing, as well as framing and forward error correction (FEC) testing as per ITU-T G.709.
The new features enable qualification [...]
March 17, 2010 – Corning Inc. has announced that effective April 1, 2010, ClearCurve multimode optical fiber will become its standard 50-micron multimode fiber product offering.
Introduced in 2009, ClearCurve multimode fiber is the world’s first laser-optimized, high-bandwidth, multimode fiber to withstand bends at 7.5 mm radius with substantially less signal loss than traditional multimode fibers.
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March 17, 2010 – JDSU will highlight solutions from its optical communications and communications test and measurement portfolios at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in San Diego from March 23-25. Conference attendees are invited to visit JDSU at booth #2015 during the event to see its latest technology offerings.
JDSU will [...]
March 16, 2010 – Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that the accurate, fast acquisition system of the Tektronix DPO72004B oscilloscope combined with OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers from Optametra deliver unprecedented ability to visualize and measure coherent polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK) signals in realtime.
Tektronix and [...]
March 15, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has announced the availability of a software release that introduces new OTN testing capabilities to its Transport Blazer and Power Blazer product lines.
EXFO’s Transport Blazer and Power Blazer product lines already offer OTN testing capabilities. However, the new software release will add support the OTU1f and OTU2f test interfaces, [...]
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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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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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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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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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 [...]
