October 19, 2011
Fujitsu Ltd. has detailed research that could make digital signal processing (DSP) chips for coherent detection significantly smaller, lower cost, and less power hungry. The new chip design can compensate not only for linear distortions of the optical signal like chromatic dispersion, but also for complex waveform distortion caused by nonlinear effects – something that the current generation of DSP chips does not do.
October 19, 2011
PON silicon and software vendor BroadLight says that it now has standards-compliant ITU-T G.987 XG-PON1 OLT and ONT devices commercially available. The company asserts it is the first to be able to make such a claim.
October 18, 2011
FASTWEB, one of Italy's largest broadband providers, is deploying the country's first 100 Gigabit per second (100G) per channel optical fiber network between Milan and Rome. Using Nokia Siemens Networks technology, the network will be capable of simultaneously transmitting up to 40 wavelengths of light, each carrying data at 100G. This will allow a total data transfer speed of up to 4 Terabits per second.
October 18, 2011
Telecoms services enabler Nokia Siemens Networks announced on Thursday that Italian broadband provider FASTWEB is deploying the country's first 100Gb/s (100G) per channel optical fibre network between Milan and Rome.
October 18, 2011
Etisalat has launched 'eLife TV' on its high-speed fibre-optic network. The product is an interactive television available within Etisalat's eLife Triple Play service (fixed line, internet and TV).
October 18, 2011
Italian telecommunications operator Fastweb is deploying a 100 Gigabit per second (100G) per channel optical fibre network between Milan and Rome. Using Nokia Siemens Networks technology, the network is expected to be capable of simultaneously transmitting up to 40 wavelengths of light, each carrying data at 100G.