EQUIPMENT DESIGN

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Equipment Design NEWS & PRODUCTS

Mellanox to buy silicon photonics developer Kotura

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), which focuses on interconnect for se...

OIF to explore Transport SDN, CFP2

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has decided to dip its toes into software-defined ne...

Acacia Communications adds funding, hints at new products

Coherent transmission technology developer Acacia Communications has closed a new $20 millio...

MOSIS collaboration with ePIXfab boosts access to silicon photonics prototyping

Semiconductor development foundry MOSIS had teamed up with ePIXfab, the European silicon pho...

AFOP launches LC and SC adapters with external or internal shutters

Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. (AFOP) has launched a new series of fiber-optic LC and S...

MoSys samples MSR620 Bandwidth Engine 2 Burst IC

Communications IC vendor MoSys (NASDAQ: MOSY) says it has begun sampling its MSR620 Bandwidt...

VI Systems awarded three US patents for its optical interconnect technology

VI Systems GmbH (VIS) says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued notices o...

Huawei unveils photonic integrated device for metro networks

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd., has unveiled a new photonic integrated device (PID) aimed at me...

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Equipment Design Featured Articles

Bend matters, Part 2: Microbending in optical fibers
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Optical network trends for 2013
Combining 40G DP-QPSK with 10G OOK channels on metro/regional networks

Editorial Guides

	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 sys...
	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...
	The year ahead in optical communications Of course, no one truly knows all that the future will bring – but that won’t stop us from making predictions. Here’s a compendium o...
	Fiber optics for the data center As capacity demands climb and footprints grow in the data center, fiber-optic technology becomes increasingly appealing for communic...
	High-Speed Packet Transport Service providers of all stripes – from telcos to cable operators and wholesalers to managed data services providers – are seeing an...
	Fiber-optic advances for the enterprise With bandwidth demands growing in enterprise networks, fiber-optic technology development is keeping pace. From finding ways to mini...
	Integration as an enabler for next-generation equipment design Next-generation optical communications systems have to keep pace with the ever-increasing data rate and functionality requirements o...