June 6, 2011
According to DITTBERNER's "DSL, FTTH and FTTB/LAN Shipment Analysis", FTTH shipments rose 5% Quarter on Quarter to 1.7 Million and 42% for the whole year to 6.3 Million. Both were records.
June 6, 2011
In an never-ending quest for as much bandwidth as possible, Fujitsu and Pacific Crossing announced that they have upgraded the PC-1 trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable mo more than 1 Tb/s.
June 6, 2011
Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, announces that its Plug & Play? Universal Systems are 100G Ethernet ready, capable of reliably supporting transmission speeds up to 100G with laser-optimized 50μm multimode fiber (OM3 fiber).
June 4, 2011
France Telecom (FT) is spreading its bets when it comes to next-generation passive optical network (NG-PON) technologies.
June 4, 2011
PUNE, INDIA — Sterlite Technologies Limited ("Sterlite") BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange): 532374, NSE(National Stock Exchange of India, Mumbai): STRTECH],a leading global provider of transmission solutions today announced that it has won a contract from BSNL, valued at Rs 372 Crores (US$ 77 Million), for enabling a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Network based on Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology. Sterlite was awarded a major share of the total outlay of project, amongst competition from global players. Sterlite has streamlined its efforts to ensure that the contract is executed within FY10.
June 4, 2011
Mountain View, CA - The Ethernet Alliance recently announced that members AMCC, Avago Technologies, Broadcom, ClariPhy, Cortina Systems, ExceLight Communications, Finisar, Gennum, Inphi, Intel, JDSU, MergeOptics, NetLogic Microsystems, Opnext and Vitesse successfully conducted multi-vendor interoperability testing of Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP+) short-reach (10GBASE-SR) and long-reach (10GBASE-LR) optical interfaces.