Lightwave Direct Newsletter of May 21, 2007
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In the news
Hibernia Atlantic taps Huawei for subsea network upgrade
Hibernia Atlantic has selected Huawei to further upgrade its 24,520-km submarine and terrestrial network throughout the U.S, Canada, UK, and Europe. Additionally, Hibernia has named Huawei the provider of choice for the submarine segments of its fiber-optic cable routes. More...
Columbus Networks, Tyco install Columbia-FL subsea network
Columbus Networks' Colombia-Florida Sub Sea Fibre Project, dubbed CFX-1, includes more than 2,400 kilometers of high-strength, high-capacity fiber-optic cable and will have a branch into Jamaica. It seamlessly connects with the ARCOS-1 undersea ringed network forming two large sub-rings for alternate routing and redundancy, say Columbus representatives. More...
Children's Hospital Boston selects Ciena's CN 4200
Children's Hospital Boston has deployed Ciena's CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to enable high-speed optical connections between multiple locations throughout its Boston campus and facilities in nearby Waltham and Needham, MA. More...
Emtelle and Dantex to merge
The merger of Emtelle and Dantex will result in a combined company that specializes in the delivery of ducted fiber networks from city rings to customer premises. More...
NTT America selects XO Communications for 10-Gbit wavelength services
NTT America says it will use the XO wavelength services to expand the capacity of its network, connect multiple data centers and points of presence on its backbone, and support the delivery of services it currently provides to its customers. More...
Make Fiber Optic Troubleshooting Easy
How much money would you save if you could determine the health of your fiber LAN quickly, with the touch of one button? Automated OTDR trace analysis lets network owners rapidly determine the health of a fiber LAN by translating raw data into simple PASS/FAIL results. This Fluke Networks' white paper, "Become an Expert Troubleshooter with Advanced OTDR Trace Analysis," explains how an OTDR detects and analyzes test results.
New product
Cisco and Nokia Siemens Networks collaborate on OSS platform
With the increasing challenges associated with delivering converged services across multi-vendor networks and the high cost of custom integration, the jointly developed Operations Support Systems (OSS) platform will help the entire service provider community better align network capabilities and costs with business demands, say the companies. More...
Featured article
Multiservice switching platforms enable global Ethernet services
By Kevin Wade, Turin Networks -- Increasing business globalization and the rapid adoption of high-capacity, IP-based services continue to drive the growth and transformation of international optical networks. Ethernets role in this transition has also evolved in recent years. Once viewed solely as a new high-speed interface for data services, Ethernet is now broadly accepted as a convergence-layer technology for delivering the full array of packet-based voice, video, and data services. More...
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