Volume 5, Issue 2

by Stephen HardyMuch of the talk among executives and observers at OFC/NFOEC in San Diego centered on the economy; would recession in the U.S. trigger another downturn in the ...

10GEPON reference designsTwo 10GEPON reference designs, the PAS8001 OLT and PAS9001 ONT, have been created for central office optical line terminals (OLTs) and premises optical...

by Richard Jensen and Andrew LordThe recent explosion in access bandwidth for Internet and other services is driving carriers to provide a greater level of optical layer flexibility...

by Stephen HardyThe IEEE doesn�t expect to ratify the standard for 10 Gbit/s Ethernet PON (10GEPON) until late in the fall of 2009. However, as has become customary in the optical...

Glimmerglass (www.glimmerglass.com) says that it has now shipped 20 Intelligent Optical Switches to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), the world�s largest public Internet...