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  • Volume 25, Issue 2

    • Volume 25, Issue 2

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    Transmission

    �Plug and tune�: A new slogan for optical transceivers

    Feb. 1, 2008
    by Pierluigi Franco, Marco Romagnoli, and Francesco TassoneIn the market for optical transceivers for WDM applications, pluggability and tunability hold the key to achieving cost...
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    PON/Systems

    PONs offer higher speeds, lower price per megabit

    Feb. 1, 2008
    by Tom AndersonPassive optical networks (PONs) are on the cusp of a new generation. Services, bandwidth, and economics are evolving and combining to move PON from being simply...
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    Transport

    Low-loss WSS rduces costs in London regional network study

    Feb. 1, 2008
    The recent explosion in access bandwidth for Internet and other services is driving carriers to provide a greater level of optical layer flexibility in regional and long-haul ...
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    Transport

    Chromatic dispersion compensation improves extended-reach architectures

    Feb. 1, 2008
    Increasing the reach between telecommunication nodes is a very attractive business proposition in many types of telecommunications networks. This article explains how fiber Bragg...
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    High-Speed Networks

    Choices emerge for 40G and 100G applications

    Feb. 1, 2008
    by Ed CornejoSigns everywhere are indicating a new explosion in bandwidth demand. While the rate of increase of IP traffic is debatable, the growth trend is not. Experts -- Cisco...

    More content from Volume 25, Issue 2

    Network Design

    update

    Feb. 1, 2008
    Aegis Lightwave (www.aegislightwave.com) says it has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office entitled �Tunable Optical Filter on a CTE-Matched Transparent...
    Market Research

    Caribbean subsea market on target through 2017

    Feb. 1, 2008
    Pioneer Consulting (www.pioneerconsulting.com) has released a new report that provides a comprehensive view of recent developments, trends, and growth opportunities in the Caribbean...
    Market Research

    How dark are those clouds?

    Feb. 1, 2008
    by Stephen M. HardyLast month in this space I outlined four areas I believe will emerge this year as important trends within the optical communications market. (See �Four Hot...
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    Packet Transport

    New transceivers help IP/Ethernet transport networks evolve

    Feb. 1, 2008
    by Siraj Nour El-AhmadiSince its beginnings as a best-effort LAN protocol in 1973, Ethernet continues its ascension unabated as a widely deployed, simple to use, and yet cost-...
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    Transmission

    2008 OFC/NFOEC Product Showcase

    Feb. 1, 2008
    SC/APC angle splice connectorA no-polish connector (NPC) enables fast, on-site installation of 250- and 900-µm singlemode SC/APC-compatible connections. The connector consists...
    Transmission

    MPO/MTP connectors targeted for high-density parallel optics

    Feb. 1, 2008
    by Meghan Fuller HannaIn its recent report, "New Markets for Telecom & Datacom Lasers: 2007 to 2012," CIR analysts note that parallel optics will dominate short-reach computing...