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    by Stephen HardyNext month will bring not only a new year, but a new look to Lightwave Europe. The reformatting of the publication is inspired by the fact that most of you now...
    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Mark Donovan and Keith ConroyWith new data and video applications driving massive increases in Internet traffic, service providers and telecom and datacom OEMs have been under...
    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Meghan Fuller HannaAmong readers of Lightwave Europe, the acronym "FTTH" is well–understood to mean fibre to the home. But for subscribers of Amsterdam's CityNet network, the...
    Nov. 1, 2008
    Israeli–based Ethos Networks (www.ethos–networks.com) was founded in 2004, several years before the concept of Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) was conceived. At the time, there...
    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Meghan Fuller HannaThe Optical Internetworking Forum (www.oiforum.com) this summer agreed to begin work on a project framework for 100–Gbit/sec long–haul transmission, focusing...
    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Kurt RudermanEfforts by the European Commission (EC) to put in place a new telecoms framework that focuses on broadband fibre access technologies have raised optimism at the...
    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Stephen HardyThe need to lower cost, power consumption, and package size has led to significant advancements in photonic integration. Infinera (www.infinera.com) has made the...
    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Daniel MahgereftehFor the past two decades, high–performance optical transmitters for 10–Gbit/sec telecommunications systems have relied upon external modulators to maintain...
    Nov. 1, 2008