TRANSPORT

Optical transport equipment includes multiplexers of all types (OADMs, ROADMs, and other CWDM and DWDM platforms), amplifiers, crossconnects, and others, including the emerging packet optical transport platforms. The information provided here will aid the designers of these systems.

Transport NEWS & PRODUCTS

Fujikura to acquire WSS vendor Nistica

Fujikura Ltd. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Nistica. Based in ...

ROADM advances: An OFC/NFOEC 2012 Reporter's Notebook

Despite what previous editions of this notebook series might lead you to believe, not everyt...

NTT trials optical amplifier technology for next-gen PON

NTT Group (NYSE: NTT) says it has carried out a successful field trial of an optical amplifi...

Nistica offers high port-count waveblocker array

Nistica Corp., a supplier of agile optical networking modules, announced its entry into high...

Proximion launches continuous band dispersion compensator

Proximion Fiber Systems AB, a provider of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based dispersion compens...

Calient debuts high-density photonic switch for data centers

Calient Technologies Inc. has revamped its all-optical switch, s omething it promised to do ...

NeoPhotonics offers Multicast Switch for CDC ROADMs

NeoPhotonics Corp (NYSE: NPTN) says it has begun sample deliveries of its Multicast Switch b...

IPG enhances long-haul optical amplifier portfolio

IPG Photonics Corp. (NASDAQ: IPGP) says it has expanded its optical amplification and transm...

Capella, Boston University use quantum photonics to test PMD

Capella Intelligent Subsystems Inc., a provider of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technol...

Oclaro delivers intra-node amplifiers for next-gen ROADM architectures

Optical components vendor Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) has introduced what it claims is the i...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

Oclaro 2Q12 earnings call tidbits

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

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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