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::: News Digest

Long-Haul DWDM Sales Surge as the Bandwidth Glut Ends, New Report Finds
Earthtimes.org:  Worldwide sales of long-haul DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) products grew by more than 30 percent in 2006, to $1.8 billion, as network operators scrambled to add capacity in the wake of surging demand for bandwidth, according to a major new report from Heavy Reading (), the market research division of CMP Technology's Light Reading...more
Vendors Vie for FT GPON Deal
Light Reading:  FTTH Council Europe 2007 -- Fiber access equipment vendors are lining up to pitch for a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) deal at France Telecom SA (NYSE: FTE - message board), which is planning to spend €270 million (US$351 million) on a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) buildout during the next two years. (See FT Fleshes Out FTTH and PON & FTTx Update.) ...more
Lucent and Freescale, a semiconductor company, have teamed up for GPON
TMCnet:  Alcatel (News - Alert)-Lucent and Freescale, a semiconductor company, have teamed up in order to speed up the adoption of fiber-to-the-home technologies by jointly developing gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) technology and interoperability specifications for vendors of terminal equipment. ...more
Amedia to Deliver First-Ever GPON Home Gateway with Built-In Home Networking and Media Library
Business Wire (press release), CA:  Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTC BB: AANI), a provider of next generation media gateways to distribute and manage ultra-broadband triple-play services in the home, today announced the development of the worlds first GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) gateway with built-in home networking capabilities and a personal media library. The HG-G1000 is being designed to provide the integrated functionality of an in-home Broadband Home Router (BHR), an outdoor Optical Network Term...more
MAGPI/University of Pennsylvania Connect to New Internet2 Network
PR Newswire (press release), NY:  Internet2 today announced that the MAGPI advanced networking hub at the University of Pennsylvania has connected to the new Internet2 Network, providing the research and education community in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware region access to the most high-performance nationwide networking capabilities available. The new network node located in Philadelphia extends the reach of Internet2's 100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) nationwide network to its members in the region. With ov...more
Asia’s Communications System Begins to Return to Normal
Asia Sentinel, China:  As the New Year dawns, Asia’s telecommunications and cable companies appear finally to be making progress in returning the region’s communications structure to normal in the wake of the December 26 earthquake that damaged undersea cables on the sea floor thousands of meters below the surface a few kilometers south of Ta...more

::: White Papers

Storage Transport - Cisco's Storage + Optical Advantage :  Enterprises appreciate the cost and administrative advantages of consolidating storage platforms and...more
Pondering Passive Optical Networking Deployment :  This paper will assess the key considerations in selecting among alternatives for PON, and propose a...more

::: E-Zines

Cabling Installation & Maintenance Magazine :  Cabling solutions for fiber and copper communications systems. Cable installation issues cover coaxi......more
Industrial Ethernet Book :  The Industrial Ethernet Book is a leading international publication dedicated to Industrial Etherne......more

::: Industry Forums, Standard Bodies and Technical Groups

Metro Ethernet Forum :  The Metro Ethernet Forum is a non-profit organization chartered with the mission of accelerating Wor...more
SPIE-The International Society of Optical Engineering :  SPIE-The International Society of Optical Engineering...more

::: Magazines and Journals

IEEE Network :  The primary purpose of IEEE Network, which is published bimonthly, is to inform readers on topics of...more
IEEE JSAC OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING SERIES :  Starting from the second half of 2003, the regular issues of J-SAC will be supplemented each year by...more

::: Online Seminars and Tutorials

Beginner Guides :  Beginners' Guides...more
International Engineering Consortium :  The IEC Web ProForum tutorials feature the latest technical and business issues of vital concern to ...more

::: Books

Network Recovery:  Network Recovery is the first book to provide detailed information on protecting and restoring commu...more
Metro Ethernet:  Metro Ethernet looks at the deployment of metro data services from a holistic view. It gives a descr...more

::: Network Planning and Simulation Tools

VPI transportmaker :  With an array of powerful network planning capabilities, VPItransportMaker can produce optimal netwo...more
DeriveIt ASON/GMPLS/MPLS Simulator :  DeriveIt, a leader in carrier-class network control plane software and simulation tools, offers a co...more

::: Techincal Paper Search Engines

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library :  This is a collaborative project involving NASA Langley, Old Dominion University, University of Virgi...more
IETF Search :  IETF draft Search...more

::: Free Patent Search

Delphion Intellectual Property Network (US) :  Delphion Intellectual Property Network (US)...more
Complete list: Patent Search Engines :  Complete list: Patent Search Engines...more

::: Technical Writing and Research Skills

Advice on Research and Writing (compiled by Hui Zhang) :  A collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively (primarily for co...more
Writing Technical Articles :  The notes below apply to technical papers in computer science and electrical engineering, with empha...more

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