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The Lightwave editorial staff uses The Lightwave Blog to share their thoughts on optical communications and whatever else might be the current topic of conversation from cubicle to cubicle. Feel free to add your own opinions. If you'd like to become a guest blogger, contact Editorial Director Stephen Hardy at stephenh@pennwell.com


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FTTH boom: Fun while it lasted?
by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave
January 16, 2012
One tidbit from last month that slipped under the radar (to the point where the source decided to retweet it today) was the release December 13 of details from Infonetics Research's third quarter 2011 PON, FTTH, and DSL Aggregation Equipment and Subscribers report. The report states that revenues in the third quarter declined sequentially. But it is the quote from analyst Jeff Heynen that... Read more

Labels: FTTH ,  Infonetics Research
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Swimming in 100GbE’s alphabet soup
by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking
January 11, 2012
Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Given the alphabet soup of acronyms one has to wade through when dealing with standards bodies and multisource agreements (MSA), such confusion perhaps is not surprising. For example, I have recently seen multiple reputable news sources report that IEEE... Read more

Labels: 100 Gigabit Ethernet ,  ADVA Optical Networking ,  10X10 MSA ,  CFP MSA ,  Ethernet Alliance
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Verizon’s new cableco spectrum deal does not doom FiOS
by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave
December 5, 2011
Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks announced a market-changing alliance last Friday. The cable companies agreed to sell 122 Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum licenses covering 259 million PoPs to Verizon for a whopping $3.6 billion – or slightly less than what AT&T will have to pay Deutsche Telekom as a breakup fee if it can’t convince the U.S.... Read more

Labels: Verizon ,  FTTH ,  Comcast ,  Time Warner Cable ,  Bright House
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