Lightwave Direct Newsletter of April 27, 2007
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In the news
AT&T CEO Whitacre to retire
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., who led the transformation of the smallest "Baby Bell" into the world's largest communications company, today announced that he will retire as chairman of the board and chief executive officer effective June 3. More...
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Alcatel-Lucent, NEC win $500 million submarine cable network contract
Alcatel-Lucent and NEC will supply more than 20,000 km of fiber for the Asia America Gateway, a direct submarine cable network that will span almost half the length of the equator between Southeast Asia and the U.S. More...
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FTTH Council Europe elects new president, calls for ten-fold Increase in FTTH penetration by 2010-2012
"With FTTH deployment now recognized as 'the choice' for real broadband access within Europe, and as major implementations of the technology begin to approach, the Council has decided to shift to the next gear in order to ensure that the decision makers across Europe choose FTTH as their access technology," reports new president Joeri Van Bogaert. More...
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Emtelle completes aerial blown fiber installation in Australia
Emtelle installed approximately 4,000 m of aerial blown fiber for County Energy, a leading Australian energy utility that serves 870,000 customers in the New South Wales region. More...
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Svedice AB announces new investor
SFO Technologies will join Svedice's existing Swedish investor consortium as a co-investor. More...
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New product
EXFO intros portable IPTV test set
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has announced the release of a suite of IPTV quality-of-service (QoS) test capabilities for its Packet Blazer Ethernet test module product line. More...
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Featured article
Ethernet eats everything
By David King, Gridpoint Systems -- Improvements to Ethernet technology -- including intelligent tunnels, end-to-end traffic management, and greater resiliency to hard and soft failures -- promise to make the protocol better able to replace SONET/SDH. Connection-oriented Ethernet platforms that support today's standards (PWE3/MPLS) and are field software upgradeable to emerging standards (PBT and T-MPLS) will provide service providers the flexibility they seek. More...
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