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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

Cisco Segmented Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching for the IP Next-Generation Network :  This paper presents details of S-GMPLS, an innovative technology from Cisco Systems developed for se...more
Transport Network Convergence: Operational Benefits :  Convergence of Network Operations Centers (NOCs) is often viewed as an opportunity to reduce costs a...more

::: E-Zines

Laser Focus World Magazine :  Magazine providing expertise in laser technology advances, photonics technology, photovoltaic techno......more
Converge! Network Digest :  A daily journal providing executive overviews of the most important developments in broadband networ......more

::: Industry Forums, Standard Bodies and Technical Groups

Telecommunication Industry Association :  TIA is the leading trade association for the information and communications technology (ICT) industr...more
Optical Society of America (OSA) :  Founded in 1916, the Optical Society of America (OSA) was organized to increase and diffuse the know...more

::: Magazines and Journals

Journal of Optical Networking :  JON is an online-only, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of optical networking including ne...more
Optical Networks Magazine :  Optical Networks Magazine is an international, peer-reviewed magazine that gives you timely reports ...more

::: Online Seminars and Tutorials

Lightreading Webseminar :  Webinars are free sponsored educational seminars that are accessed over the Internet. You can regist...more
The Edge: Optical networking :  Optical networking resources from The Edge, Network World and the 'Net. ...more

::: Books

Introduction to DWDM Technology:  "Companies and research labs worldwide are racing to develop Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing ...more
ATM & MPLS Theory & Application:  Solve all your networking problems and improve overall performance using this detailed guide to ATM ...more

::: Network Planning and Simulation Tools

Network Simulator - ns-2 :  Ns began as a variant of the REAL network simulator in 1989 and has evolved substantially over the p...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

ITPapers search :  White paper search ...more
Bitpipe :  Whitepaper search engine...more

::: Free Patent Search

Delphion Intellectual Property Network (US) :  Delphion Intellectual Property Network (US)...more
WIPO Patent Database (International) :  The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to intellectual property data col...more

::: Technical Writing and Research Skills

Paul Hensel's Writing Tips :  The primary purpose of this web page is to give students easy access to tools that might help their ...more
Writing Technical Articles :  The notes below apply to technical papers in computer science and electrical engineering, with empha...more

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