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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Daniel MahgereftehFor the past two decades, high–performance optical transmitters for 10–Gbit/sec telecommunications systems have relied upon external modulators to maintain...