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KITCO experts seek to reduce costs of fiber optic components as part of Navy contract

MARCH 14, 2010. Photonics experts at KITCO Fiber Optics in Virginia Beach, Va., will find ways to reduce the costs of fiber optic component manufacturing and repair under terms of a $9.8 million...

Lightwave Logic verifies electrical, optical performance of prototype phase modulators

MARCH 12, 2010 -- Lightwave Logic Inc., a technology company focused on the development of the Next Generation Electro-Optic Polymer Material Platform for applications in high-speed, fiber-optic...

Fujitsu introduces compact integrated DP-QPSK receiver for 100Gbps digital coherent receiving systems

MARCH 12 , 2010 -- Fujitsu Optical Components Limited will be releasing, on May 1, a compact integrated DP-QPSK receiver that supports 100Gbps digital coherent receiving systems. This new product...

Mitsubishi Electric develops new optical transmission devices for next-generation 100 Gb Ethernet applications

MARCH 11, 2010 -- Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has developed transmission devices featuring characteristics for super high-speed, 100 Gb Ethernet applications that multiplex four wavelength channels...

Virgin Media to trial ultra-fast broadband over telegraph poles

MARCH 11, 2010 -- Virgin Media announced a new trial using telegraph poles to deliver ultra-fast 50Mb broadband to the Berkshire village of Woolhampton. By connecting homes directly to Virgin...

MSOs continue to avoid salary freezes

MARCH 11, 2010 -- The Cable and Telecommunications Human Resources Association (CTHRA) reports that while 30 percent of employers in the United States froze salaries in 2009 and 14 percent...

Cox Business wins VITA telecommunications contract

MARCH 11, 2010 -- Cox Business won from the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) statewide contracts for Internet services in selected speed tiers and zip codes. The contract provides a...

VI Systems launches VCSEL driver IC for 25 Gbit/s and 28 Gbit/s

MARCH 11, 2010 -- VI Systems GmbH, maker of ultra-high-speed optical components for data communications, introduces the A25-120C VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) driver integrated...

RED-C introduces the UltraSpan High Power Amplification Terminal

MARCH 10, 2010 - RED-C Optical Networks Ltd. (RED-C), a provider of EDFAs, Raman amplifiers and optical monitoring devices for all optical network applications, today announced the launch of the...

TeraXion extends tunable dispersion compensation module suite

MARCH 10, 2010 - TeraXion Inc., maker of products for the generation and conditioning of light signals for telecommunications and defense & aerospace markets, is launching a new tunable...