Volume 4, Issue 4

Europeans impress at North American FTTH Conference

Dec. 1, 2007

by Stephen HardyJust as the European FTTX community will convene in Paris this coming February for the FTTH Council Europe’s FTTH Conference, those interested in the North American...

Design & Manufacturing

Polatis hopes to latch onto carrier switch market

Dec. 1, 2007

by Stephen HardyThe use of optical switches in test environments has increased over the last several years, particularly in lab applications. Carriers also can benefit from using...

FTTH/B

Wait till next year

Dec. 1, 2007

by Stephen HardyI used this space in the Q1 issue to proclaim 2007 the Year of Making Money. Given the increasing health of the optical communications market, it was time for ...

Transmission

Premier Products

Dec. 1, 2007

High-density LC adapters Y-connect’s family of singlemode and multimode high-density LC adapter products is available with a patent-pending, modularised multiport dust shutter...

Packet Transport

Carrier Ethernet deployment faces challenges, opportunities

Dec. 1, 2007

by Ralph SantitoroEthernet has been adopted by service providers of all types to enable new services and simplify network infrastructure. There are, however, a number of implementation...

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FTTH/B

Regulation must play a role in the breakthrough of fibre

Dec. 1, 2007

by Gabrielle GautheyWe are on the eve of an evolution that is essential, and somewhat revolutionary, in the history of telecommunications: the transition from broadband to very...

Mergers & Acquisitions

Update

Dec. 1, 2007

Neotel (www.neotel.co.za), the first national infrastructure-based competitor in the fixed-line telecommunications sector in South Africa, has selected ECI Telecom’s (www.ecitele...

Packet Transport

Carrier Ethernet nears MAN/WAN tipping point

Dec. 1, 2007

by John SauerGiven Ethernet’s proven track record, it comes as no surprise that enterprise customers want to take the traditional benefits of Ethernet in the LAN-speed, scalability...

Packet Transport

PONPs optimised for legacy and packet transport

Dec. 1, 2007

by Meghan Fuller HannaThe traditional multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) was developed primarily as a lower-cost alternative to the legacy add/drop multiplexer (ADM). Over...

Transmission

Whatever your perspective, ATCA300 can help

Dec. 1, 2007

by Niall RobinsonOpen industry standards have brought tremendous value to the telecommunications industry. For optical networking, the definition of the ITU DWDM wavelength grid...