Equipment Design News

Mindspeed adds TIAs for PON equipment

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 -- Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:MSPD) has announced the company’s latest generation of high-sensitivity 1.25-Gbps and 2.5-Gbps transimpendance amplifiers (TIAs). The...

Achronix, Opticomp demonstrate multipath 40-Gbps optical networking development platform

AUGUST 30, 2010 -- FPGA maker Achronix Semiconductor and module optical supplier Opticomp have demonstrated a platform for developing, characterizing, and demonstrating high-speed optical data...

GigOptix samples quad 7.5-Vpp DWDM driver for 100G

AUGUST 24, 2010 -- GigOptix, Inc. (OTCBB:GGOX) has announced the availability for sampling of its new GX62455, a quad channel 7.5-Vpp Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) driver designed for 100G...

FOSS acquires Ibsen Photonics

AUGUST 23, 2010 -- FOSS A/S has become main shareholder in Ibsen Photonics A/S through a purchase of an additional 73% of Ibsen Photonics shares from existing shareholders. FOSS now owns...

AFL Telecommunications intros specialty fusion splicers

AUGUST 23, 2010 -- AFL Telecommunications is launching two new fiber-optic fusion splicers: the FSM-100M and the FSM-100P for splicing polarization maintaining (PM) fibers. Both new specialty fiber...

MRV SFPs earn US Patent for HD-SDI video over fiber transport

AUGUST 23, 2010 -- MRV Communications Inc. says that its line of digital video small form-factor pluggable (SFP) interfaces used for transporting serial digital interface (SDI) and high-definition...

Advantech, NetLogic Microsystems collaborate on 40-Gbps AdvancedTCA

AUGUST 23, 2010 -- Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multi-core network platforms, and semiconductor electronics supplier NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL)...

Xelerated samples AX programmable Ethernet switches

AUGUST 23, 2010 -- Xelerated has begun sampling its AX family of programmable Ethernet switches. Based on Xelerated’s wirespeed dataflow architecture, the AX family is designed to enable...

Centellax releases small 40G DPSK 8-V modulator driver

AUGUST 20, 2010 -- Centellax Inc. has released the OA4MVM4 44G modulator driver amplifier to production. The OA4MVM4 is designed to be used in 40G differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) telecom...

Small form factor 300-pin 10-Gbps transponders from CIVCOM use GigOptix GX6155 drivers

AUGUST 19, 2010 -- GigOptix, Inc. (OTCBB:GGOX) says that CIVCOM has adopted the GigOptix GX6155 modulator driver for the module developer’s small form factor (SFF) 10-Gbps 300-pin...