Fiber to the X (FTTX) comprises the many variants of fiber optic access infrastructure

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
The Lightwave Channel
Senior executives Arvind Chhatbar and Tom Tighe of Enablence offer their perspectives on the U.S. broadband stimulus effort, including the impact on their business and whether $7.2 billion is just s drop in the bucket.
The Lightwave Blog
Yeah, we've got a lot of big names from the vendor community on the speaker roster for Lightwave's Optical Networks for Enterprises Conference (Lightwave...
Roy Rubenstein
Skype’s planned initial public offering doesn’t directly call to mind the travails of the optical component industry. But the hope of raising...
FTTX Product Showcase
Sponsor: ULTRA TEC Mfg., Inc.
The ULTRA TEC CTC polishes up to 4 connectors,
temini, or contacts at a time. This makes it perfect
for small to medium production batches. Using
economical 2" lapping films, CTC includes an
automatic oscillating polishing
motion and a process timer
for defining exact polishing
processes.
Sponsor: ULTRA TEC Mfg., Inc.
ULTRA TEC is a major stocking distributor of most sizes and types of premium lapping films — diamond, aluminum oxide, silicon carbide and final finish films are available in 2, 4, 5 and 8 inch diameter sizes to suit both ULTRA TEC polishing products and systems from other manufacturers.
Sponsor: ULTRA TEC Mfg., Inc.
The ULTRA TEC ULTRAPOL Sculpted End polisher provides the means to produce accurate profiles on the ends of bare optical fibers. Full angular and pressure control, in conjunction with an unique fiber mounting machinism, enables the production of tapers, chisel tips and bevels.
Sponsor: New Ridge Technologies, LLC
NRT-2500 performance stands alone among polarization control devices and development platforms. The network proven technologies and control algorithm make it the perfect platform upon which to develop and implement very fast and very reliable polarization tracking and control applications such as:

  • Polarization demultiplexing of DP-QPSK signals,
  • PMD compensation,
  • Coherent detection, and
  • General lab applications

Sponsor: ULTRA TEC Mfg., Inc.
The ULTRA TEC Cleaving Tool provides the fiber user with high quality, low damage cleaved surfaces for subsequent termination processes, whether polishing or splicing. The unit is
designed to be used like a pen and can be stored just as easily between uses.
Ultra Polisher
Sponsor: Ultra Tec Manufacturing, Inc.
Ultra Tec Manufacturing, Inc.
5 resilient polishing platens, 12V converter, battery pack & charger, carrying case for FTTx, LAN, CATV, and aircraft/shipboard applications
Single Mode Splitter
Sponsor: Vitex LLC
PLC single mode splitters divide power among multiple outputs from 1270nm to 1610nm. 1xN or 2xN (up to 32). Packages options include stainless steel housing, LGX and 19” rack mount.
Ultratool Manual Polisher
Sponsor: Ultra Tec Manufacturing, Inc.
Height adjust feature, supported (connectorized) or non-supported (bare fibers), various replaceable modules for all types of connectors, custom modules.
FTTX White Papers
LW ONE Conference
FTTX Webcasts