To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21082 ) 4/27/2007 8:08:52 AM From: Frank A. Coluccio Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 46821 Lightwave Direct Newsletter of April 26, 2007 newsletters.pennnet.com In the News Infonetics: EMEA telecom carrier capex up 7% in 2006 EMEA capex totaled 59.2 billion euros in 2006 and are projected to increase 8% to 63.8 billion euros in 2010. More...lw.pennnet.com Atlas Offshore network lands in Marseille Alcatel-Lucent has completed for Moroccan carrier Maroc Telecom the manufacturing and installation of the Atlas Offshore submarine cable network, linking the cities of Asilah in Morocco to Marseille, France. More...lw.pennnet.com Corning to invest $300M in R&D facility Corning Inc. says that its board of directors has approved a $300 million facility improvement plan for the company's Sullivan Park Research and Development campus. More...lw.pennnet.com China Mobile taps Alcatel-Lucent to enhance mobile service delivery Beijing Mobile and Guangdong Mobile, two subsidiaries of China Mobile, have selected optical equipment from Alcatel-Lucent to enhance mobile service delivery. More...lw.pennnet.com Pulaski Electric System chooses ETI Software Solutions for FTTP billing PES Energize, the telecommunications division of Pulaski Energy Systems, has deployed ETI Software Solutions Inc.'s Triad énConcert billing system to manage, provision, and bill for telecommunication services over its FTTP network. More...lw.pennnet.com New Products Leviton's Fiber Raceway System has been expanded Leviton expands Fiber Raceway System offering Leviton Voice & Data has announced several new additions to its Fiber Raceway product line that will allow customers to tailor the Fiber Raceway System to their specific application. More...lw.pennnet.com Featured Article TODC vendors ready inline and integrated devices By Meghan Fuller, senior editor -- The only tunable optical dispersion compensators (TODCs) deployed in significant numbers today appear only at the receiver to combat residual dispersion. TODCs have yet to be deployed for inline applications. And no integrated TODCs (i.e., within 300-pin MSA transponders) have been deployed to date. But TODC vendors are gearing up to offer such devices now. More...lw.pennnet.com ------