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EXFO's 100G Ethernet Module Now Available with OTN Testing Capabilities

EXFO Inc. announced today the addition of optical transport network (OTN) testing capabilities on its FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer 100G/40G Ethernet Test Modules.

18 Mar 2010

OFC/NFOEC Show to Feature ViaSat's New FEC Products for 100G Optical Channels

ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) is introducing a family of forward error correction (FEC) products for 100G optical transport at the OFC/NFOEC Exhibition beginning March 23 in San Diego.

18 Mar 2010

High-Performance Protein-Level Microscope to be Featured at HANNOVER MESSE

Proteins, the cellular building blocks, can be visualized and analyzed in great detail today. Here, Fraunhofer FIT presents a fully automated high-performance microscope.

18 Mar 2010

New DPSK 40G Optical Transponder from Civcom

Civcom, a leading technology developer and manufacturer of Opto-electronic components and modules, today announced the availability of a new DPSK tunable 40G transponder as the latest complement to its 10Gbps Free Light™ family of tunable NRZ and RZ transponders.

18 Mar 2010

Laser Design Scanning System Installed at Carley Foundry's Minnesota Facility

Laser Design Inc., the leading supplier of 3D laser scanners for over 20 years, announced that Carley Foundry recently installed a Laser Design scanning system using the FaroArm in its Blaine, Minnesota facility.

18 Mar 2010

Hamamatsu Launches New Digital Camera Featuring CMOS Image Sensor

Hamamatsu has introduced the new ORCA-Flash2.8, its first high-sensitivity digital camera based on a next-generation scientific CMOS image sensor.

18 Mar 2010

EMC to Offer QLogic's 8Gb Fibre Channel Stackable Switches

In the latest move to expand its global market share in Fibre Channel switches in enterprise-class data centers worldwide, QLogic Corp. today announced that on April 12 its 5800V Series 8Gb Fibre Channel stackable switches will be available through the EMC® Select program as scalable SAN solutions for a broad range of EMC storage platforms.

18 Mar 2010

Ondine Files PMA Application to FDA for its Periowave Photodisinfection System

Ondine Biopharma Corporation, a medical technology company developing photodisinfection-based products, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formally accepted for filing the Company's Pre-Market Approval (PMA) application for the Periowave™ Photodisinfection System for the treatment of chronic periodontitis in adults as an adjunct to standard methods of care.

18 Mar 2010

Iosil Secures $13.5 Million Fund to Construct Pilot PV Plant

Iosil Energy Corporation ("Iosil"), an innovator in the production of high-purity solar grade polysilicon for the photovoltaic industry, announced today that it has secured $13.5 million in equity financing in an oversubscribed round.

18 Mar 2010

Yolo County to be Powered by SunPower Solar Panels

Yolo County, SunPower Corp. ( SPWRA, SPWRB) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) today announced that SunPower will design and construct a 1-megawatt solar power system at the Yolo County Justice Center in Woodland, Calif.

18 Mar 2010

Samsung Touchscreen Model S5233T Features Analog Mobile TV

Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, today announced that Telegent's analog mobile TV receiver is shipping in Samsung's Star TV S5233T handset, recently launched in Southeast Asia.

18 Mar 2010

Report Shows Global Solar PV Installations Rise 6% in 2009

Worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) installations reached a record high of 6.43 gigawatt (GW) in 2009 — a 6% Y/Y growth, according to the latest Marketbuzz® 2010 Report from Solarbuzz®, an international solar energy market research and consulting company, and a division of The NPD Group.

18 Mar 2010

Cree Offers XLamp LEDs in Warm- and Neutral-White Color Temperatures

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the award-winning XLamp® XP-G LED in warm- and neutral-white color temperatures (2600 K to 5000 K CCT).

18 Mar 2010

Successful 100 GbE Optical Transmission with Opnext and Ixia Technologies

Opnext, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPXT) and Ixia (NASDAQ:XXIA) announced the successful demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) traffic using the Ixia K2 traffic generator and analyzer and Opnext’s 100GBASE-LR4 CFP Multi-Source Agreement (CFP MSA)-compliant optical module.

18 Mar 2010

Guzzo to Convert 43 Cinema Screens with MasterImage 3D Theatre Systems in Montreal

MasterImage 3D, LLC, a provider of pioneering stereoscopic 3D systems for theaters, auto-stereoscopic television and handheld displays, announced today that Montreal-based Guzzo Cinemas has chosen to convert 43 of its screens to stereoscopic 3D projection with MasterImage 3D digital theatre systems.

18 Mar 2010