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  • Volume 4, Issue 10

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    No mixed signals

    Oct. 1, 2002
    If sending an optical signal down a strand of fiber were a simple task, we wouldn't have so many companies with so many technologies competing for the honor—and the reward. The...
    Components

    Modular subsystems will play a key role in future network architecture

    Oct. 1, 2002
    The applications driving the growth of the Internet are globally distributed, interactive, and bandwidth intensive. They are diverse in their demands on the network in terms of...
    Transmission

    Modular instrumentation speeds BER and insertion-loss testing

    Oct. 1, 2002
    Modular instrumentation can be defined as hardware and software platforms that allow a variety of functionally specific modules to be rapidly and easily incorporated to deliver...
    Transmission

    Electronic equalization enables high-speed metro networks

    Oct. 1, 2002
    The continuous growth of bandwidth demand in the access network places pressure on the capabilities of metropolitan communication networks. Optical links in metro/regional core...
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    New Products

    Oct. 1, 2002
    The CQF 874 semiconductor optical amplifier measures 58 x 10 x 15 mm and can be used as an in-line amplifier to compensate for losses from components in the optical path, or as...