Volume 2, Issue 8

"When the market comes back" is a turn of phrase heard often in telecoms circles. None of us knows exactly what that market will look like if and when it appears. But the market...

Passive optical networks (PONs) are being deployed throughout Asia and Europe, and three of the four traditional regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) in the United States...

Southampton Photonics (SPI) and the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK, demonstrated over 600 W from a single fibre laser. The results, which...

Aurora Telecom, a carrier's carrier owned by Ireland's state-run gas company, plans to build an intercity fibre-optic network called City 2 City that will connect major cities...

Conventional transport systems rely on electrical switching to reroute traffic around facilities failures. Many restoration architectures have been deployed and proposed, including...