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Lite Access Successfully Completes Trial Fiber-to-the-Home Deployment for TELUS in Powell River

LITE ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed a trial Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment for TELUS Corporation for 97 units in Powell River, British Columbia. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, DSG Communications, utilized its best-in-class air-blown fibre, microduct and micro-trenching solutions to ensure seamless connectivity from the backbone direct to customer premises with minimum disruption to the surroundings and residents of Powell River during the project.

20 Oct 2015

Twisting' Data Could Increase Data Speeds of Optical Fibers

In the latest advance to boost the speed of the Internet, a research team including, the City College of New York, University of Southern California, University of Glasgow, and Corning Incorporated, has demonstrated a way to increase the data speeds of optical fibers - considered the Internet's backbone.

19 Oct 2015

EPFL Researchers Produce Two-Micron Lasers Using Optical Fibre

Lasers with a wavelength of two microns could move the boundaries of surgery and molecule detection. Researchers at EPFL have managed to generate such lasers using a simple and inexpensive method.

12 Oct 2015

ECOC 2015: Viavi to Demonstrate Latest Innovations in Optical Communications

Viavi Solutions today announced that it will highlight its latest solutions that enable and accelerate quality optical communications networks and services during the 41st European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) at Fiera Valencia in Valencia, Spain, Sept. 27 - Oct. 1, booth #100.

29 Sep 2015

Pittcon Announces Sanford Asher, Chemistry Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, as Recipient of the 2016 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award

Pittcon and its sponsoring society, The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) are pleased to announce Sanford Asher as the recipient of the 2016 SACP Award.

28 Sep 2015

GigOptix to Showcase Live Demo Using 100Gbps Short Reach Chipset with New 28Gbps Quad CMOS CDR

GigOptix, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced high speed semiconductor components for use in long-haul, metro, Cloud connectivity, data centers, consumer electronics links and interactive applications, through optical and wireless communications networks today announced that it will showcase a live demo utilizing its 3rd generation 100Gbps Short Reach Chipset with its new 28Gbps Quad CMOS CDR.

28 Sep 2015

US Conec to Unveil New MTP-16 Multi-Fiber Optical Connector at ECOC 2015

US Conec, a global leader in the design and development of high-density optical interconnects, will unveil the new MTP-16™ multi-fiber optical connector at the 2015 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Valencia, Spain. The MTP-16™ connector offers the highest density physical contact for multi-fiber connector format on the market today.

28 Sep 2015

Southampton Researchers to Present New Data on National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Service at International Conference

Southampton scientists will reveal the first research results from the new National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Service (NDFIS) at an international conference this Autumn.

26 Sep 2015

ADVA Optical Networking Completes Trial of 400Gbit/s Coherent DCI Technology with PSNC

ADVA Optical Networking today announced that it has successfully completed a rigorous trial of its 400Gbit/s coherent data center interconnect (DCI) technology with the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC). The trial was conducted over 385km of fiber, spreading between two research and education centers in Poznan and Warsaw.

25 Sep 2015

Laser Components’ Compact, Reliable Optical Fibre Switches for Most Challenging Applications

Designed for the most demanding applications, these optical fibre switches are compact and reliable with millisecond switching times over a long 100M cycle lifetime. Covering VIS (400-690nm), NIR (700-1100nm) and IR (1260-1360nm, 1480-1630nm) spectral bands, as well as the polarisation maintaining PM (1310-1550nm) band, these optical switches can be tailored to suit a wide range of optical communication technologies, for both single mode or multi-mode fibre.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 23 Sep 2015