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Prysmian to sell Draka Fileca to Carlisle Companies

Draka Fileca provides cabling and connectivity products for harsh environments, including aerospace, space, and defense applications.

Pro Active is now offering a line of 400 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers in both OSFP and QSFP-DD form factors.

Pro Optix offers 400 Gigabit Ethernet optical transceivers to European market

The company, headquartered in Stockholm and focused on the European market, says the optical transceiver line includes variants compatible with Cisco, Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, and Huawei platforms.

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STL offers Stellar Fibre as universal fiber

Stellar Fibre offers ITU-T G.657.A2 bend insensitivity but with a mode field diameter the size of ITU-T G.652.D fiber.

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Solving Bandwidth Challenges with FPGAs Optimized for Next-Generation Optical Networking

The availability of cost-optimized, low-power FPGAs at mid-range densities with intrinsic burst mode clock data recovery support is facilitating new ways to solve difficult OLT design challenges.

This week's High Speed Ethernet Plugfest at UNH-IOL drew more participants than the previous one.

Ethernet Alliance wrapping up latest High-Speed Networking Interop Plugfest

This week’s HSN Plugfest drew a greater number of companies than the previous iteration, including some who joined the Ethernet Alliance just so that they could participate.

MPO-to-MPO is one of several cable assembly categories covered by L-com's recent portfolio expansion.

L-com offers 50/125 OM3, OM4, and OM5 multimode fiber cables

Options for the new assemblies include OFNR or low-smoke zero-halogen (LSZH) jackets; connector pins or no pins; choice of OM3, OM4, and OM5 multimode fiber; and fiber counts of 8, 12, and 24 channels, says the company.

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Nokia touts Quillion fixed access network chipset family

The chipset family will support GPON and 10G PON architectures on the fiber side and a variety of approaches, including Gfast, on the copper side.

Sales of Ethernet optical modules are expected to decline in 2019 for the first time since 2009. But growth should return next year, LightCounting predicts.

Ethernet transceiver sales to decline 18% in 2019: LightCounting

However, LightCounting states in its new “High Speed Ethernet Optics Report” that purchases of Ethernet optical transceivers should rebound through 2024.

The teams of Etisalat UAE and Nokia that carried out the successful trial.

Nokia, Etisalat conduct single-carrier terabit optical transmission field trial

As part of the trial, Nokia and Etisalat transmitted a total of 50.8 Tbps via multiple wavelengths, each with a net information rate of 1.3 Tbps, over a 93-km fiber route.

The IC-TROSA was one of several elements of its work OIF display at ECOC 2019 in a manner to its demos at OFC 2019 recorded in these photos.

OIF approves IC-TROSA Implementation Agreement to pave road to 400ZR modules

The IA describes two types of IC-TROSA, each of which is expected to accelerate the development of 400-Gbps coherent optical modules, including those based on the 400ZR IA, in pluggable form factors such as QSFP-DD and OSFP.

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Jabil Photonics demos 100G/200G CFP2-DCO coherent optical transceiver

The device leverages a silicon photonics coherent engine from Elenion Technologies and is nearing sampling, according to Jabil Photonics sources at ECOC 2019.

CS Consortium forms to promote use of data center 400G fiber-optic connector

The CS high-density fiber-optic connector was developed to meet the needs of data center 400-Gbps connectivity applications.

Infinera sees XR optics as a more efficient means to support hub-and-spoke network architectures.

Infinera unveils XR optics single-source coherent point-to-multipoint transmission technology

Infinera sees XR optics, which it plans to make available to optical transceiver vendors and perhaps other partners, as a more efficient means to support hub-and-spoke network architectures than the present point-to-point approach.

Left to right, Boudewijn Docter, CTO EFFECT Photonics; Dennis Maas, CFO EFFECT Photonics; and Joachim de Sterke, CFO PhotonDelta at EFFECT Photonics headquarters in Eindhoven.

EFFECT Photonics adds €5 million via PhotonDelta

The company, which focuses on an InP-based approach to the development of DWDM optical chips, says it will use the money to accelerate product development and business expansion with an eye toward serving the 5G mobile and data center network markets.