2003, 09

Market Research

'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...'

Sept. 1, 2003
This time of the year is often marked with nostalgic references to the opening words (see headline) of John Keats's famous poem, "To Autumn." As well as being a classic description...
PON/Systems

In Brief

Sept. 1, 2003
Specially enhanced versions of Marconi's (London) MSH family of optical switches have been selected by Deutsche Telekom AG to form the intelligent core of its Global Seamless ...
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Transmission

Ireland's optoelectronics sector bucks the trend

Sept. 1, 2003
The Irish government's Department of Finance last month warned that the Republic's economy, which boomed in the late 1990s and started to wane in 2001, is unlikely to recover ...
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Network Design

ECOC product preview

Sept. 1, 2003
The compact high-performance arrayed-waveguide gratings are based on advanced technologies and meet diverse customer needs.NTT Electronics (NEL), TokyoCombining high performance...
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Design & Manufacturing

Used test equipment challenges, opportunities

Sept. 1, 2003
Many test equipment vendors over the past 12–18 months have increased publicity for their trade-in/trade-up programs and refurbished equipment sales, even though some of these...

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Packet Transport

Network edge fosters new generation of access devices

Sept. 1, 2003
A quartet of California-based companies—ANDA Networks (Sunnyvale), Atrica (Santa Clara), Larscom (Milipitas), and Luminous Networks (Cupertino)—recently unveiled compact, low-...
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Electronics

Improving optical 40-Gbit/sec signal generation

Sept. 1, 2003
The conventional on-off keying method for the nonreturn to zero (NRZ) signal format is a cost-effective solution in optical systems. However, we anticipate that other signaling...
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Transport

Erbium developments drive multiport amplifiers

Sept. 1, 2003
Optical-network designers can solve power budget problems in restricted spaces by using multiport optical amplifiers. These erbium-doped waveguide-amplifier (EDWA) arrays of individuall...
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Network Design

Meeting metro capacity with cost-reducing fibre infrastructure

Sept. 1, 2003
Though difficult to quantify, signs indicate that some level of infrastructure growth is likely the latter half of this year and into next year. Networks are running at historically...