Some of the excesses of the optical communications euphoria have proved easy to erase. Product lines, networks, and even entire companies have disappeared. The equipment vendors...
The submarine system supply business has always been a cyclical industry. Nevertheless, the big boom and bust in the early years of this new century have left an indelible mark...
Zarlink Semiconductor (www.zarlink.com) used last November’s Supercomputing 06 show to unveil the first quad small-form-factor pluggable (QSFP) parallel optical module. Based ...
The fifth annual FTTH Conference, held October 2-5 in The Venetian Hotel Casino Resort in Las Vegas, saw a record number of attendees and exhibitors. With 2,100 people attending...
An announcement by the alternative carrier Free to invest €1 billion in FTTH networks across France could be the project that the fibre-optics industry has been waiting for to...
There’s a song from a previous generation (or, depending upon your age, several previous generations) that goes “everything that once was old is new again”. You hold in your hand...
New market drivers and new types of customers continue to drive the international submarine market, which began to recover last year after a period of slow growth.The market for...
The HFBR-7934Z four-channel parallel optical transceiver module complies with RoHS 6 and operates at 3.125 Gbit/s per channel for an aggregate bandwidth of 12.5 Gbit/s and a link...
The recent advances in nanofabrication provide many new opportunities to develop new devices that are cheaper and better than conventional alternatives. Quantum dot lasers, NanoOpto...
