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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

Enabling VoIP: Data Considerations and the Evolution of Transmission Network Design :  Voice services are again undergoing a major transition, this time from fixed digital circuits to Voi...more
Enabling Business Continuity Using Optical Ethernet Over SONET :  The objective of this white paper is to provide best practices and guidelines for building a Gigabit...more

::: E-Zines

Lightreading :  Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), owned by CMP Media, is the ultimate source for technology and......more
Cabling Installation & Maintenance Magazine :  Cabling solutions for fiber and copper communications systems. Cable installation issues cover coaxi......more

::: Industry Forums, Standard Bodies and Technical Groups

Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) :  The MultiService Forum is a global association of service providers, system suppliers & test equipme...more
Telecommunication Technology Committee :  The purpose of this committee is to contribute to standardization in the field of telecommunications...more

::: Magazines and Journals

IEEE Optical Communications :  The mission of IEEE Optical Communications is to publish quality papers in the area of optical com...more
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications :  Each issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC) is devoted to a specific ...more

::: Online Seminars and Tutorials

The Edge: Optical networking :  Optical networking resources from The Edge, Network World and the 'Net. ...more
Beginner Guides :  Beginners' Guides...more

::: Books

Connection-Oriented Networks:  “This book presents a unique perspective on the various flavours of connection-orientated networks.”...more
IP over WDM: Building the Next Generation Optical Internet (Hardcover):  The key technology to delivering maximum bandwidth over networks is Dense Wave-length Division Multi...more

::: Network Planning and Simulation Tools

WANDL NPAT and IP/MPLSView :  NPAT is a comprehensive off-line network design, planning and optimization solution for ATM, FR, IP,...more
Network Simulator - ns-2 :  Ns began as a variant of the REAL network simulator in 1989 and has evolved substantially over the p...more

::: Techincal Paper Search Engines

Computer Science Biblio. :  http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/...more
Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library :  This is a collaborative project involving NASA Langley, Old Dominion University, University of Virgi...more

::: Free Patent Search

U.S. Patents :  A comprehensive bibliographic database containing records for each of the 2.6 million U.S. patents i...more
Delphion Intellectual Property Network (US) :  Delphion Intellectual Property Network (US)...more

::: Technical Writing and Research Skills

Research Resources (complied by Richard G. Baraniuk) :  Useful tips on how to succeed in graduate school and your subsequent research career ...more
Writing Technical Articles :  The notes below apply to technical papers in computer science and electrical engineering, with empha...more

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