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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SFP+ is the latest pluggable optical module form factor for use in 10 Gbit/s Ethernet and 8.5 Gbit/s Fibre Channel systems. The objectives of this new form factor are to increase...
As you might expect from a predominantly LAN-based technology that has migrated into the WAN, Ethernet has suffered from a relative lack of standardisation when it comes to test...