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    Mergers & Acquisitions

    Ireland's utilities investing in hundreds of fibre-kilometers

    Aug. 1, 2003
    Aurora Telecom, a carrier's carrier owned by Ireland's state-run gas company, plans to build an intercity fibre-optic network called City 2 City that will connect major cities...
    Transmission

    Restoration schemes for agile photonic networks

    Aug. 1, 2003
    Conventional transport systems rely on electrical switching to reroute traffic around facilities failures. Many restoration architectures have been deployed and proposed, including...
    PON/Systems

    PONs, GPONs, implications of new ITU standards

    Aug. 1, 2003
    Passive optical networks (PONs) are being deployed throughout Asia and Europe, and three of the four traditional regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) in the United States...
    Packet Transport

    Italy's Emilia-Romagna aims to be Europe's 'most fibred'

    Aug. 1, 2003
    An intercity and metro fibre-optic project developed by the HERA utility consortium in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy is evolving into one of Europe's most ambitious public...
    Market Research

    Diversity beats adversity

    Aug. 1, 2003
    Southampton Photonics (SPI) seems to have demonstrated several levels of resourcefulness through the tough times and is claiming to have actually doubled its turnover between ...