Industry News

Portugal Sonaecom selects Telcordia for FTTH network design

June 3, 2011

LONDON — Worldwide communications service providers (CSPs) that are installing next-generation fibre access networks are increasingly relying on Telcordia for their network design and management needs. Sonaecom, Portugal’s leading provider in the telecommunications, broadband and media market, is the latest operator to select Telcordia for a national Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) rollout, designed to serve more than one million homes.

Fiber is fastest-growing broadband service

June 2, 2011

Fiber is fastest-growing broadband service; subscribers to reach 106 million worldwide by 2014.The number of fixed broadband subscribers worldwide will rise to 501 million at the end of 2014 -- and 106 million of them will subscribe to services delivered via fiber optic cable, say analysts at ABI Research in Singapore.

Single-Crystal Semiconductor Wire Built into an Optical Fiber

June 2, 2011

An international science team from Penn State University in the United States and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom has developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside the tunnel of a hollow optical fiber. The device adds new electronic capabilities to optical fibers, whose performance in electronic devices such as computers typically is degraded by the interface between the fiber and the device. The research is important because optical fibers -- which are used in a wide range of technologies that employ light, including telecommunications, medicine, computing, and remote-sensing devices -- are ideal media for transmitting many types of signals.

2010 market frorecast-Strong quantity growth in fiber connector

June 2, 2011

2010 market frorecast-Strong quantity growth in fiber connector, mechanical splice consumption. The worldwide consumption value of fiber optic connectors and mechanical splices will reach $2.5 billion according to a recent report from Electroni Cast Consultants. The report, which covers the years 2008-2013, pegs consumption at $1.658 billion in 2008 with the expectation of a “relatively flat” 2009, ElectroniCast says, “due to the multi-industry worldwide economic crisis.

Magenta Research Announces Breakthrough in Fibre-Optics Transmission of AV signals

June 2, 2011

LS Cable (Chairman & CEO Christopher Koo) announced on the 10th that the build-out of an open access network for Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, will be completed by the end of December of this year.