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BT infringed on ASSIA DSL patent rules UK High Court

DSL technology provider ASSIA Inc. says it has convinced the High Court of Justice in London...

SDN moves into transportation business

Software-defined networking has already begun to prove its worth in data centers. Now it's t...

Infonetics survey says volume metro 100G coming in 2016

Last year, Infonetics Research told us that 100G wavelengths would take over in the core by ...

Interview with Andre Kriger -- FTTXcellence Award winner fibers Brazil

With both the World Cup and Olympics coming to Brazil, the country's service providers are f...

Competition, regulation boost FTTx growth in Latin America

A combination of supply-push and demand-pull will boost the embryonic fiber broadband market...

ElectroniCast: Fiber-optic attenuator market worth $370M in 2018

According to the latest report from ElectroniCast Consultants, the use of component-level fi...

Strong North American sales can't stop 3Q13 optical network market decline says Ovum

Echoing the sentiments of other market research firms, Ovum reports that global spending on ...

400 Gigabit Ethernet represents watershed opportunities says CIR

While standards work on 400 Gigabit Ethernet has just begun, market research and analysis fi...

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Editorial Guides

	Advances in optical design testing Demands for support of 100 Gbps data rates in smaller packages have challenged technology developers’ creativity. Optical communicat...
	Passive optical LANs bring fiber to the desktop economically A growing number of enterprises have discovered the benefits of using passive optical LANs to meet the high-bandwidth needs of their...
	The Expanding World of Data Centers Data center requirements have grown increasingly complex, requiring new technology that operates at higher speeds. Whether it’s serv...
	What’s new in FTTH? With broadband access demands increasing, fiber to the home (FTTH) technology is improving to meet operator requirements. Recent adv...
	Coherent 100 Gbps: The Basics Want to get up to speed on multi-level modulation formats and coherent detection? These articles describe how coherent transmission ...
	New perspectives on OTN Optical Transport Network (OTN) technology is rapidly replacing SONET/SDH in packet-optimized networks. As new network needs arise, ...
	New era emerges for submarine networks We are currently in a new era of submarine network construction and upgrade. New systems are being constructed, and established syst...
	The next generation of 100G Now that 100-Gbps transmission is reaching the field, work is already underway on the second generation of the technology. Upcoming...
	Fiber powers mobile backhaul The traffic demands mobile broadband have created have driven operators to rethink their mobile backhaul strategies. Many have concl...