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.
“Corning’s [...]
March 17, 2010 – Oclaro, Inc. has announced its first 40G RZ-DQPSK indium phosphide based transponder qualified to Telcordia standards. Designed to deliver high performance in a low-cost, 300-pin multi-source agreement (MSA) platform, the new TL9040 transponder modules are currently shipping to Tier 1 customers for field deployments.
Oclaro’s new multi-rate adaptable 43-Gbps RZ-DQPSK transponder is [...]
March 17, 2010 – DiCon Fiberoptics has released a new MEMS 1×56 fiber-optic switch for applications such as FTTH monitoring. Housed in a compact module, the optical switch features reliable optical performance with internal components that are Telcordia GR-1221 qualified, DiCon asserts.
“Based on DiCon’s proven, proprietary MEMS technology, the high port count of our 1×56 [...]
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 10, 2010 – ElectroniCast Consultants has released a new market forecast and analysis report that says the market for fiber-optic fusion splicers will increase to $550 million in 2014, with double-digit annual growth in all regional segments.
The global consumption value of fiber-optic fusion splice equipment in 2009 was $302 million, up slightly from 2008, [...]
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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February 26, 2010 – GAO Tek Inc. has added an upgraded optical fiber identifier to its product line.
The optical [...]
February 10, 2010 – LeCroy Corp. has extended the capabilities of its WaveMaster 830Zi 30-GHz real-time oscilloscope by providing what it describes as a simple and fast method to combine two oscilloscopes and provide four channels at 30 GHz. This approach enables measurement and analysis of 28- to 56-Gbps IQ modulated signals where ultra-high real-time [...]
