June 23, 2011
Draka Communications won a European consulting, licensing, and training contract with e.wa riss Netze, a fiber services venture jointly owned by the public utility of the city of Biberach and EnBW, an energy provider for southwest Germany.
June 23, 2011
Zhone Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:ZHNE), a provider of FTTx network access systems, is working with Pulaski-White Rural Telephone Cooperative to build a fiber network that will support the delivery of more affordable, more reliable, high-speed Internet access, VoIP, and video services to subscribers.
June 23, 2011
ZTE Corp. says it will supply GPON fiber to the home (FTTH) equipment for BelTelecom’s national broadband network project in Belarus.
June 23, 2011
SureWest Communications (Nasdaq:SURW) says it will increase the number of homes in Olanthe, KS, it plans to connect with fiber to the home (FTTH) in 2011. The target number will rise 5,000, to 15,500 new FTTH home connections, SureWest says.
June 22, 2011
Opnext Inc. (NASDAQ:OPXT) says it has demonstrated a single-wavelength, real-time coherent 127G PM-QPSK (polarization multiplexed quadrature phase-shift keying) modem on the TeliaSonera network running through Sweden. The TeliaSonera trial represents the first real-time, single-wavelength 100G field trial in Europe, Opnext asserts.
June 22, 2011
VOSCOM’s new fiber transmission system released atVOSCOM TECHNOLOGIES, the leading supplier of advanced digital video fiber transmission products, has launched its second generation drop and insert fiber optic transmission system,VOS-DC400, at the IFSEC2010, which is held on May 10 to 13th in Birmingham, UK.