Friday 5 video for 03.08.19

Mar 8th, 2019
It's the annual OFC edition of the Friday 5! Lightwave Editorial Director Stephen Hardy offers his picks for the Top 5 themes/trends/stories from San Diego this year. Sponsored by HG Genuine.
More in Home
Pro Active is now offering a line of 400 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers in both OSFP and QSFP-DD form factors.
Pro Optix offers 400 Gigabit Ethernet optical transceivers to European market
The company, headquartered in Stockholm and focused on the European market, says the optical transceiver line includes variants compatible with Cisco, Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, and Huawei platforms.
Oct 22nd, 2019
Technology 3243375 1920
Red Deer County, Alberta, grants awards for wholesale fiber-optic network
The network will leverage XG-PON technologies says contractor Valo Networks, which specializes in rural deployments in Canada.
Oct 21st, 2019
Network 4221541 1920
Internet2 to upgrade fiber backbone with Ciena’s 800-Gbps WaveLogic 5
The upgrade will enable Internet2 to deploy 800-Gbps wavelengths in metro locations and support 400 Gigabit Etherent interconnect over native 400G wavelengths.
Oct 21st, 2019
Optical Fiber 2077976 1920
toob taps ADTRAN for UK fiber to the premises roll out
toob plans to roll out a full fiber broadband network capable of supporting gigabit broadband to to more than 100,000 premises by the end of 2021, starting with the South of England.
Oct 21st, 2019
Abstract 3581182 1920
STL offers Stellar Fibre as universal fiber
Stellar Fibre offers ITU-T G.657.A2 bend insensitivity but with a mode field diameter the size of ITU-T G.652.D fiber.
Oct 21st, 2019
Smart Home 4153906 1920
Smartcom offers xCPE customizable home residential gateways
The customizable gateways offer enhanced home internet quality and operational savings for service providers, the company says.
Oct 21st, 2019
List 1030596 1920
Solving Bandwidth Challenges with FPGAs Optimized for Next-Generation Optical Networking
The availability of cost-optimized, low-power FPGAs at mid-range densities with intrinsic burst mode clock data recovery support is facilitating new ways to solve difficult OLT design challenges.
Oct 17th, 2019
This week's High Speed Ethernet Plugfest at UNH-IOL drew more participants than the previous one.
Ethernet Alliance wrapping up latest High-Speed Networking Interop Plugfest
This week’s HSN Plugfest drew a greater number of companies than the previous iteration, including some who joined the Ethernet Alliance just so that they could participate.
Oct 17th, 2019
I Stock 000021777803 Small
Verizon teams with Lanner Electronics for universal CPE
The collaboration will see Verizon’s enhanced uCPE program run on Lanner’s hardware platforms and integrate with existing virtual network service (VNS) applications on Verizon’s global network.
Oct 17th, 2019
Approved 29149 1280
PacketLight Networks earns NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 2 compliance for fiber-optic network encryption
The certification makes PacketLight’s encryption-enabled products eligible for deployment by financial institutions, healthcare facilities, enterprises, and United States federal agencies and government service providers.
Oct 17th, 2019
Pr20 Zxa10 C620
ZTE unveils ZXA10 C620 2U-high OLT based on TITAN platform
Oct 17th, 2019
MPO-to-MPO is one of several cable assembly categories covered by L-com's recent portfolio expansion.
L-com offers 50/125 OM3, OM4, and OM5 multimode fiber cables
Oct 17th, 2019
Wallet 2668502 1920
KKR buys majority stake in UK FTTP network operator Hyperoptic
Oct 15th, 2019
There were smiles all around during the unveiling of the Tejas Networks TJ1600S/I disaggregated packet-optical switch at India Mobile Congress 2019.
Tejas Networks debuts TJ1600S/I disaggregated packet-optical switch at India Mobile Congress 2019
Oct 15th, 2019