To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21173 ) 5/1/2007 6:05:48 PM From: Frank A. Coluccio Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 46821 Lightwave Direct Newsletter of May 1, 2007 newsletters.pennnet.com In the news Corning and Lightwave open nominations for fourth-annual FTTXcellence Award Corning and Lightwave are honoring an individual for his or her contributions to the deployment of optical access networks in North America with the fourth-annual FTTXcellence Award, to be presented October 1, 2007, FTTH Conference in Orlando, FL. More...lw.pennnet.com Verizon Business deploys high-capacity optical network for Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center The new Maimonides network also will serve as the foundation for the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIE), a regional health care network scheduled for launch in 2008. More...lw.pennnet.com Nortel equipment tapped for XXI Olympic Winter Games The 2010 Winter Games will be the first ever to converge all of its voice, video, and data traffic over a single IP-based network backbone. More...lw.pennnet.com Internet2 FiberCo, Ciena announce partnership for R&E Networking FiberCo says it will offer Ciena's basic and professional services to provide Internet2 members with end-to-end equipment and support all components of their dynamic research networks, including network management and maintenance. More...lw.pennnet.com Iowa Telco LISCO deploys FTTH with Occam Networks Local Internet Service Company (LISCO), a CLEC serving in the Fairfield, IA, area has begun purchasing Occam Networks's BLC 6000 Fiber products as part of a strategy to overbuild Fairfield with a fiber-to-the-home network. More...lw.pennnet.com New products WTD's 10-Gbit/sec tunable transponder now available According to the company, the new 10-Gbit/sec tunable transponder is full C- and L-band tunable. More...lw.pennnet.com Anritsu intros all-band optical component tester The MT9820A's patented configuration enables continuous sweeps over several lasers--from 1250 nm to 1650 nm--to characterize any CWDM, FTTx, or WDM optical component, say company representatives. More...lw.pennnet.com Ixia launches portable ultra-high density chassis The 20-lb., 4.5-in high chassis supports up to 32 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, six 10-GbE ports, or four packet-over-SONET (POS) or ATM ports, says the company. More...lw.pennnet.com Featured article RPR simplifies campus communications By Vinay Bannai, ADTRAN -- RPR provides survivable dual counter-rotating optical rings with several advantages over traditional enterprise network architectures, including support of oversubscription and variable bandwidth per span as well as the provision of advanced traffic routing capabilities. More...lw.pennnet.com ------