EDUCATION: TRAINING, STANDARDS & ASSOCIATIONS

Education in optical communications takes a variety of forms and comes from many sources. Training classes are an obvious way to keep abreast of new standards and practices. Associations often see education of their memberships as an important part of their mandates. Regardless of the educational source, keeping up with the latest standards is crucial to success.

Education NEWS & PRODUCTS

IEEE standardizes body area networking

The IEEE has announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6-2012, designed to support the design of...

OIF launches 56-Gbps electrical interface projects

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has announced the start of three new electrical inte...

Corning, Lightwave open FTTXcellece Award nominations

Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) and Lightwave will honor an individual for leadership in the deploy...

MEF launches Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has launched a Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program for...

New IEEE standard targets smart-grid communications; more on the way

The IEEE has announced publication of a new standard intended to improve the communications ...

Gigabit FTTH service users profiled in FTTH Council report

The Fiber-to-the-Home Council Americas has announced a report that attempts to profile users...

North American FTTH connections up 13%, says FTTH Council

The study, which covers the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, indicates that FTTH rea...

MEF offers MEF-CECP Study Guide

Those of you cramming for your Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional (MEF-CECP) certificat...

Metro 100G: An OFC/NFOEC Reporter's Notebook

As is the case every year, OFC/NFOEC 2012 in Los Angeles last week featured a variety of tec...

Ethernet over OTN interoperability subject of second OIF demo

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) will use next month’s OFC/NFOEC conference to showca...

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TIA 2012: Inside the Network

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June 5, 2012 - June 7, 2012

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

Oclaro 2Q12 earnings call tidbits

February 2, 2012
Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts ...

Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Swimming in 100GbE’s alphabet soup

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. Giv...

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