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BTI Systems has announced a simplification to the provisioning and management of optical services in the metro network. The Ottawa-headquartered company has added what it dubs a “dynamic optical layer” to its BTI 7000 packet optical platform to enable metro services without requiring detailed networking planning. The BTI 7000 platform supports 40 DWDM channels and an advanced reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM).
By Roy Rubenstein
Now in its sixth year, ECOC’s Market Focus forum is bigger and better than ever before, say the show organisers. A look at the schedule for the event indicates what are going to be the major topics of discussion for ECOC this year.
By Pauline Rigby
US service provider Verizon is claiming another 100G first, with the deployment of 100G on an ultra-long-haul section of the company’s US backbone – essentially delivering on a promise made earlier this year. More significantly, the company says it plans to increase the number of routes using 100G technology to 10 by the end of the year, rather than just the three that were announced back in March.
By Pauline Rigby
A consortium of over 30 US universities hopes to accelerate deployment of high-speed networks in university towns. By collaborating on this effort, Gig.U members aim “to lower costs for themselves and improve the business economics for the private sector entities interested in working with the members, while enhancing the benefits gained from shared information and experience”.
By Pauline Rigby
In recent years, gains in optical transmission system capacity have been slow. That’s because the capacity of current optical fibres is within a factor of two of their fundamental physical limits, bounded by the Shannon limit and optical nonlinearities. Now an €11.8m European-funded research project is investigating ways to boost system capacity by an order of magnitude using specialist multimode optical fibres.
By Pauline Rigby
Avago Technologies has begun manufacturing an SFP+ module supporting the latest speed 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel standard. The introduction of the SFP+ doubles the traffic throughput of storage systems.
By Roy Rubenstein
ADVA Optical Networking has launched a 100Gbps transmission card designed for metro applications. The firm claims it is an industry first: a direct-detection-based 100Gbps design using four 28Gbps channels. The metro card will be used to connect enterprise data centers and to transport 100 Gigabit Ethernet traffic between core routers.
By Roy Rubenstein
JDSU has integrated a tunable laser into an SFP+, the smallest pluggable optical transceiver form factor. The tunable SFP+ will span the C-Band and support 50GHz channel spacings. JDSU is demonstrating the tunable SFP+ to customers and expects the module to enter production in the next year.
By Roy Rubenstein
Infinera is on target with development of its 500 Gbps photonic integrated circuit (PIC) judging from the news that the device has been running in a field trial with African carrier Seacom. The PIC is the crucial technology inside the company’s much anticipated 100Gbps coherent system, which is expected to reach the market by July 2012.
By Pauline Rigby
The 10x10 MSA consortium has announced the public availability of 10km and 40km transceiver specifications that will allow it to expand into campus and metro applications. The group says it was compelled to develop a new specification for longer reach applications to “eliminate the need for custom or proprietary solutions, while also reducing both development and manufacturing cost”.
By Pauline Rigby
Automated fibre management solutions for data centres and access networks represent a growing market. FiberZone Networks is well positioned to tap into this opportunity thanks to a $12m (€8.4m) round of financing.
By Pauline Rigby
State-owned telco P&T Luxembourg has announced that it will be launching commercial fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services under the brand “LuxFibre” in September. When the offer is launched, around 85% of households will be able to connect at speeds of up to 30 Mbps and around 25% at speeds of up to 100 Mbps.
By Pauline Rigby
The global optical network equipment market jumped 13% in the second quarter of 2011, following an 11% decline in the first quarter, according to the latest figures from Infonetics Research. The long term trend remains positive, with the market being up 21% in the second quarter 2011 compared to the same quarter a year ago.
By Pauline Rigby
In the August 5 issue of Science, researchers lead by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, describe a new technique to isolate light signals on a silicon chip. The work is an important step towards creating an optical diode using material that is compatible with photonic integrated circuits.
By Pauline Rigby
ClariPhy Communications will start volume production of its 40 Gbps coherent IC by the end of September. The fabless semiconductor company raised $14 million in June, part of which will fund the move to production.
By Roy Rubenstein
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ECOC is the largest European optical communications event and the meeting place for everyone in the fibreoptic communication technology industry. If you are a manufacturer, supplier or service provider of optical comms' products and services, you are guaranteed to meet and interact with your most active prospects at ECOC 2011.
ECOC is the largest European optical communications event and the meeting place for everyone in the fibreoptic communication technology industry. If you are a manufacturer, supplier or service provider of optical comms' products and services, you are guaranteed to meet and interact with your most active prospects at ECOC 2011.
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The global optical network equipment market jumped 13% in the second quarter of 2011, following an 11% decline in the first quarter, according to the latest figures from Infonetics Research. The long term trend remains positive, with the market being up 21% in the second quarter 2011 compared to the same quarter a year ago.
By Pauline Rigby
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