The worldwide market for telecom infrastructure equipment will exceed $109.9 billion in 2011, increasing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2%, reveals new...
Worldwide sales of metro Ethernet equipment are forecast to nearly double between 2006 and 2010, when they will reach $18.8 billion, according to “Metro Ethernet Equipment,” a...
It’s a paradox that our “fair play” mentality in Europe can be virtuous about protecting the rights of individual parties at one level while compromising at another an emerging...
COMPONENTSThe second-generation compact CWDM Mux and Demux (multiplexer/demuliplexer) module features not only the smallest footprint for a CWDM product, but also the lowest insertion...
The global fibre-optic test equipment (FOTE) market registered revenues of $586.1 million in 2006, up 4.4% over the previous year, reports market research firm Frost & Sullivan...
Market researchers suggest that when the final numbers are counted, 2007 will have been the best year for optical communications hardware since 2001. Most of these analysts limit...
The increasing number of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) being deployed in today’s networks provides increased flexibility to network operators. At the same...
On the eve of the FTTH Council Europe conference, real FTTH competition has arrived. For the first time since the council was created, an incumbent—Orange—is driving the FTTH ...
2007 was the year that the phrase “fibre to the home” (FTTH) started to mean something in Europe. Before 2007, FTTH was viewed by many as a high-end technology aimed at the far...
With the rapid adoption of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) by wireline carriers, optical switching is being widely deployed across metro core, regional, ...
At the same time some of our readers will be in Paris for the FTTH Council Europe’s conference, others will be at OFC/NFOEC in San Diego. While at the show in California, attendees...
As the FTTH Council Europe prepares to host its annual conference in Paris on February 27–28, France Telecom’s plans to begin massive commercial FTTH roll-outs nationwide in 2009...
