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  • Volume 25, Issue 3

    Transmission

    Tuning in to 2008

    March 1, 2008
    by Stephen HardyThe year may be almost a quarter old, but it's still young enough that component suppliers continue to test the assumptions on which they based this year's plans...
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    FTTX

    OTDR vendors continue to specialize, innovate

    March 1, 2008
    by Meghan Fuller HannaAn optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) is used to characterize optical fiber and, by extension, optical fiber networks. It measures end-to-end loss,...
    Transmission

    update

    March 1, 2008
    NEC Corp. (www.nec.com), Fujikura Ltd. (www.fujikura.co.jp), and eGtran (www.egtran.com) have announced the formation of a new multisource agreement (MSA) for a compact small-...
    FTTH/B

    Five-year acceleration expected for N. American FTTH

    March 1, 2008
    The North American FTTH market will accelerate in the next five years, according to a new report from RVA Market Research (www.rvallc.com). The current annual numerical increases...
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    PON/Systems

    Asia-Pacific PON vendors see sales jump 50%

    March 1, 2008
    PON equipment manufacturers in Asia-Pacific were expected to see a 50% jump in revenue overall between 2006 and 2007, according to a report released by Infonetics Research (www...

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    Market Research

    Global connector/splice market to top $1.4B in 2011

    March 1, 2008
    According to a recent five-year forecast and report from ElectroniCast Consultants (www.electronicastconsultants.com), global fiber-optic connector and mechanical splice consumption...
    Network Design

    ROADMs now mainstream, but innovation continues

    March 1, 2008
    by Meghan Fuller HannaBy all accounts, reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology has become mainstream. First adopted by the cable multiple-system operators...
    Market Research

    Execute or execution

    March 1, 2008
    by Stephen M. HardyLast month in this space I discussed how fears of economic recession might affect the optical communications industry. I concluded that while the market could...
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    DWDM & ROADM

    Bandwidth virtualization enables a programmable optical network

    March 1, 2008
    by Serge Melle, Rick Dodd, Chris Liou, and Vijay VusirikalaAverage annual Internet Protocol (IP) traffic increases of 75% per year on average have significant implications on ...
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    Design & Manufacturing

    Vitesse embeds waveform viewing into chip architectures

    March 1, 2008
    by Stephenm HardyVitesse Semiconductor Corp. (www.vitesse.com) says it has developed a technology that enables design engineers and end users to view waveforms within an IC, thus...
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    FTTH/B

    Fiber innovation optimizes FTTH reach, reduces installation cost

    March 1, 2008
    by Paulo Dainese, Merrion Edwards, Todd Rhyne, and David ChenEconomic modeling of the business cases for FTTH has revealed that it is most cost effective to concentrate initial...