After four interoperability demonstrations following the launch of specification in February 2011 CableLabs has created a qualification program DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE) equipment....
[UPDATED] Optical systems vendor Ekinops has unveiled a 20-Gbps transponder, which can transmit a pair of 10-Gbps in 50 GHz of spectrum on existing fiber-optic networks. The transponder not only...
EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO, TSX: EXF) has added WDM-Aware testing capabilities to its FTB-5240S/B-P optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), together with additional features such as referencing, on-graph...
UK cable operator Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED; LSE: VMED) says it is doubling the broadband speeds of over 4 million of its customers and will be increasing its top speed tier from 100 Mbps to 120...
ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) says the new Total Access 1600 packs a high-density FTTH punch in a small form factor. The new product line is a family of 1RU form-factor OLTs supporting either GPON or...
Orckit-Corrigent Ltd. (NASDAQ: ORCT) has teamed up with TELSOL, a turn-key telecommunications provider in Central America, to provide new packet-transport networking (PTN) equipment for cable...
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) says it has deployed the first 100G-capable cable-TV network in South America. Cablevision Argentina has selected the vendor’s 100-Gbps coherent...
In response to the increasing use of fiber optics in wireless backhaul networks as well as on cell towers themselves, Sunrise Telecom Inc. (OTC:SRTI) has unveiled the RxT-4000 Fiber Optics Toolkit...
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has unveiled a new 100-Gbps line card for its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) designed to offer extended reach and better spectral efficiency. The...
Those in the optical communications industry who believed an eventual move to 10G EPON would trigger massive fiber builds for cable MSOs might want to reconsider. The IEEE has announced work on a...
