Fibre is fit for last mile infrastructure
Electronics Talk (press release), UK: Prysmian Cables and Systems announces CasaLight, its new 'bend-insensitive' optical fibre in accordance with ITU-T Recommendation G.657. With the current rapid growth in broadband services and the corresponding need to upgrade last mile telecomms infrastructures, there is a growing trend to take the optical fibre in these networks closer and closer to the end user. This transition towards the ultimate goal of FTTH (fibre to the home) means that the more
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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
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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
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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
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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 world’s 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
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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
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