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Telcordia Hosts 7th FSAN Gigabit Passive Optical Networking Test Event

With economic considerations on the minds of operators worldwide, now more than ever, it is imperative for communications service providers and equipment vendors to ensure their networks' integrity and minimize deployment risks through cost-effective testing. Recognizing this, Telcordia, acknowledged in the industry for its expertise in testing cutting-edge technologies, which has included FTTx optical systems and components, recently hosted the 7th Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) Test Event at its U.S. Headquarters.

7 Nov 2008

Optical Firewall Aims to Clear Internet Security Bottlenecks

European researchers are developing the world's first optical firewall capable of analysing data on fibre optic networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. Their work promises to save the internet from the looming threat of network security bottlenecks.

28 Oct 2008

First-Ever Conference on Photonic Integration Marks Growing Recognition of Key Enabling Technology

Infinera representatives will speak at the OIDA Photonic Integration Forum next week on subjects including the next commercial photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to emerge from Infinera's labs and long-term future applications of photonic integration technology.

2 Oct 2008

Breakthrough MSC7120 SoC Enables Triple Play Services at the Speed of Light

Freescale Semiconductor's MSC7120 GPON system-on-chip (SoC) device has won the prestigious 2008 InfoVision Award in the category of "Enabling Silicon and Component-Level Technologies." Presented earlier this week at the 2008 Broadband World Forum Europe event by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), the award recognizes advances in technologies, applications, products and services judged to be the most beneficial to the information communication technology industry.

2 Oct 2008

Pacnet Accelerates Network Upgrades With Infinera's Digital Optical Networking System

Pacnet has selected Infinera as one of its key suppliers to enable rapid network capacity upgrades across strategic parts of its networks in Asia and US.

30 Sep 2008

Dana Cooperson Provides 'Industry Health Check' at ECOC Market Focus Seminar

Optical communications has been a key enabler of telecom growth and will continue to offer relief to service providers squeezed between limited revenue growth and rising costs; that was the message at today's ECOC Exhibition Market Focus seminar from Dana Cooperson, VP Optical Infrastructure at influential industry analyst house Ovum.

23 Sep 2008

New Ultra Low Loss ROADM Meets Requirements for 40 Gbps Operation in Next Gen Networks

NeoPhotonics and ECI Telecom today announced here at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2008) that NeoPhotonics' new Ultra-Low Loss Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) modules are being used in ECI Telecom's XDM® Optical Networking Platform. The Ultra-Low Loss ROADM incorporates NeoPhotonics' advanced planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology to significantly reduce the insertion loss and increase the pass band, thus meeting the requirements for next generation 40 Gbps optical transmission systems.

23 Sep 2008

Applied Optoelectronics Announces Pluggable Transceiver for WDM-PONs

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI), a leading manufacturer of laser diodes, photodetectors, and optical modules for fiber optic communications systems, today announces a small form-factor pluggable transceiver designed for operation in colorless Optical Networking Terminals (ONTs) used in Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks (WDM-PONs).

22 Sep 2008

First-to-Market Extended Reach GPON Radically Changing FTTP Deployment Economics

Calix, the worldwide leader in overall gigabit passive optical network (GPON) equipment revenue (Dell'Oro Group, August 2008), today announced its latest access innovation - a first-to-market Extended Reach GPON technology based on ITU-T standards.

22 Sep 2008

CoreOptics and Partner to Enable Plug-and-Play Metro Optical Networks Based on MLSE-2

CoreOptics Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of 40 Gbps and 10 Gbps optical networking subsystems, and ADVA Optical Networking today announced joint development of the second generation of 10 Gbps Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE-2) technology on ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) platform.

22 Sep 2008