FTTX

Fiber to the X (FTTX) comprises the many variants of fiber optic access infrastructure. These include fiber to the home (FTTH), fiber to the premise (FTTP), fiber to the building (FTTB), fiber to the node (FTTN), and fiber to the curb or cabinet (FTTC). You'll find FTTX news, FTTX products, and FTTX market research on this page.

FTTX NEWS & PRODUCTS

JT selects Telcordia OSS for roll out of Gigabit Jersey

Telcordia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), says its network planning, e...

Norvado deploys GPON FTTx via Zhone MXK

Zhone Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZHNE) says that Norvado, a telecommunications provider ser...

3M offers Slim Lock Closure for fiber to the antenna

3M says its new Slim Lock Closure for wireless applications weatherproofs coaxial jumper cab...

Corning, Lightwave open FTTXcellece Award nominations

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

Telefonica to bring FTTP to Madrid this year

Telefónica and Madrid City Council have announced that the Spanish communications service pr...

Iskratel jumps into GPON

Communications equipment provider Iskratel has announced the immediate availability of a new...

Corning Cable Systems upgrades fiber-to-the-antenna offering

Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Inc.’s (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, has...

FTTH/smart grid combo benefits Opelika, Alabama

The City of Opelika, AL, will use a new fiber to the home (FTTH) network to provide both bro...

EDitorial GUIDEs

Lightwave Editorial Guide: What's New in 100g?

Lightwave Editorial Guide: What's New in 100G?

A new wave of 100-Gbps technology is about to hit the market. Meanwhile, the foundations of that technology also have indicated how ...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Connecting the data center

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Connecting the data center

With data rate requirements in some data centers approaching 100 Gbps, it’s more important than ever to have an effective cabling an...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Access network advances and alternatives

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Access network advances and alternatives

A variety of new technologies are emerging to help enable carriers keep up with bandwidth demand in the access. Here’s a look at how...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Multi-lane data transmission technology

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Increasing Bandwidth Demand Drive Test Innovation

Both in the lab and in the field, higher data rates are driving requirements and innovation. Test technology has evolved to enable t...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Multi-lane data transmission technology

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Multi-lane data transmission technology

A number of different standards and specifications are taking advantage of multi-lane, multi-fiber, or multi-wavelength transmission...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Fiber meets emerging enterprise network requirements

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Fiber meets emerging enterprise network requirements

Enterprise networks continue to become increasingly complex, which means fiber is finding a bigger role in them from the cloud to th...
Lightwave Editorial Guide: Guide to Meeting High-Speed Requirements in the Data Center

Lightwave Editorial Guide: Guide to Meeting High-Speed Requirements in the Data Center

With demands on data center resources escalating, network managers seek to increase transmission rates while decreasing complexity a...

THE LIGHTWAVE CHANNEL

The Lightwave Blog

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 January 26 after announcing it had exceeded guidance by $1 million (see "Oclaro weathers Thailand flooding in fiscal second quarter"). Here are some statements of interest I didn't...

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. Given the alphabet soup of acronyms one has to wade through when dealing with standards bodies and multisource agreements (MSA), such confusion perhaps is not surprising. For example, I have re...

Featured Buyers Guide Companies