Lightwave Direct Newsletter or May 23, 2007
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In the news
VNPT upgrades national backbone with Nortel equipment
By upgrading its 3,000-km north-south optical transmission network from 20 Gbits/sec to 40 Gbits/sec, VNPT says it will be able to provide ADSL broadband access to more residential and enterprise customers and deliver quality teleconferencing capabilities for business customers. More...
New Zealand's Transpower taps Alcatel-Lucent for network transformation
Transpower New Zealand has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deliver, operate, and maintain a new IP-based private communications network connecting 192 sites across New Zealand. More...
Adesta completes Five Colleges Fiber-Optic Network in Western Massachusetts
The new $3.6-million network will connect Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst into a primary carrier hotel in Springfield, MA. More...
TXP enters reseller agreement with telecom OEM
TXP Corp. has entered into a reseller agreement with a leading OEM to distribute TXP's BPON ONT units. More...
New products
Harmonic increases bandwidth with CWDM forward path transmitters
Harmonic's use of CWDM technology in its new transmitters offers an alternative by providing two or more wavelengths in the 1310-nm frequency band that can be combined onto a single fiber for forward transmission and then separated at the node to be demultiplexed and processed by different receivers. Thus, without any change in the fiber links or node locations, capacity can be greatly expanded, says the company. More...
Transition Networks adds CWDM to its media converters, switching products
Transition's passive optical CWDM devices utilize thin-film filter technology and are available in various wavelength combinations based on the entire wavelength spectrum defined by the ITU G.694.2 CWDM standard. More...
Tellabs multi-service access platform delivers fiber closer to users
Tellabs says its 1134 multi-service access platform enables service providers to deliver fiber where it makes sense, so they can choose to deploy fiber to a region, a neighborhood, or all the way to a home. More...
Nanotech Semiconductor intros multi-gigabit laser driver ICs
The NT25L31 edge-emitting laser driver and NT25L32 VCSEL driver are designed to support 125-Mbit/sec to 2.5-Gbit/sec fiber-optic transceiver applications for datacom, telecom, and storage markets. More...
Featured article
Service-enabled networks aid convergence
By Andy McCormick, Ciena -- Today, network operators continue to seek convergence of their networks to reduce operational expenses and eliminate unnecessary additional capital expenditures on multiple parallel networks. More...
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