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Compact WSS Designed to Dynamically Support Unpredictable Network Traffic

JDSU today announced availability of a new wavelength selective switch (WSS) product called the Mini WSS. Half the size of typical WSS offerings, the Mini WSS is designed to provide a compact and low cost solution for traffic management in the metro and access areas of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks.

19 Feb 2008

DRS Awarded Contract to Produce Key Components for Arrowhead System

DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today it was awarded two contracts by the Missiles and Fire Control segment of Lockheed Martin Corporation to produce key components for the Apache helicopter Arrowhead system. The two awards, for $31.4 and $28.5 million, push the total DRS awards to date for the Arrowhead program to more than $240 million.

19 Feb 2008

Electromagnetic Energy to Test Blood-Sugar Level

For diabetics, the daily routine of pricking their finger to check blood-sugar levels can be an annoying and inconvenient task. But now, a Baylor University researcher has developed an electromagnetic sensor that could provide diabetics a noninvasive alternative to reading their blood glucose levels, and new research shows the sensor works and is effective.

18 Feb 2008

Clearing Up Fiber Optic Communications

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the massive amounts of data that travel daily over optical fibers to people throughout the world.

18 Feb 2008

New ISR Systems Structured to Leverage Advanced Technology

Goodrich today formally announced the creation of ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) Systems, a new strategic business unit that encompasses the former Optical & Space Systems electro- optics units.

18 Feb 2008

Advanced Products Enhance Mission Capability for Current and Future Air Systems

Goodrich Corporation has decades of experience in supplying products, services and technology to military forces worldwide.

18 Feb 2008

Designed to Make Implementing LED Lighting Faster, Simpler and More Efficient

Power Integrations, the leader in high-voltage analog integrated circuits for power conversion, today announced three new Design Ideas at the Strategies In Light Exhibition and Conference, designed to make implementing LED lighting faster, simpler and more efficient.

14 Feb 2008

The Future of Optical Communication

The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) is the premier meeting where experts from industry and academia intersect and share their results, experiences, and insights on the future of electronic and wireless communication and the optical technologies that will enable it.

14 Feb 2008

Army Orders Electro-Optical Sensor Payloads from Raytheon

Raytheon Company has received two U.S. Army orders totaling $17.2 million for 18 common sensor payloads as system design and development continues.

14 Feb 2008

System-On-Chip Solution Offers Ease of Design in a Cost-Effective Package

Expanding its portfolio of industry-leading digital imaging solutions, Micron Technology, Inc., today introduced a one-fifth inch 2-megapixel (MP) imaging system-on-chip (SOC) for thin mobile phones, PC cameras and personal digital assistants.

13 Feb 2008

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