Year: 2012

Russian wireline operator Moscow City Telephone Company (MGTS) plans to invest 50 billion rubles into the development of a network built using Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology by 2015, the company’s Marketing Director Roman Plyachenko said late Tuesday. MGTS plans to invest its own...

Opnext (OPXT.O), NASDAQ’s 11th largest lasers systems & components company by market capitalisation, traded between an intraday low of 83.03c and a high of 92.0c, suggesting a trading opportunity between peaks and troughs. The average daily volatility of 7.5% places the stock in the 1st...

In the development of next-generation 100-Gbps transmission systems, the need has emerged for extremely narrow tunable filters used in the investigation of new modulation formats and their sub-bands. Yenista Optics says it has responded to this need by developing an ultrafine option for its XT...

German fiber and cable maker Leoni reveals it purchased all the shares of fiber maker j-fiber GmbH at the end of last year. Leoni had acquired 51 percent of j-fiber, located in Jena, in 2007. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. j-fiber will operate...

Anritsu Co. has introduced 28G/32G multi-channel modules for its MP1800A Signal Quality Analyzer (SQA) BERT system. The new capabilities will aid equipment designers evaluate interconnect interfaces up to 32 Gbps. Among other applications, the new capabilities will play well in dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying (DP-QPSK)...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release: An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring or damaging the...

Russian wireline operator Moscow City Telephone Company (MGTS) plans to invest 50 billion rubles into the development of a network built using Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology by 2015, the company’s Marketing Director Roman Plyachenko said late Tuesday. MGTS plans to invest its own...

Opnext, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and distributes optical modules and components that transmit and receive data delivered via light in telecommunications and data communications applications, as well as lasers and infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs) for industrial and commercial applications. Its transceiver modules, which utilize...

Swisscom and Energie Wasser Bern have reached an accord on amendments to the partnership agreement for fibre-optic expansion in the city of Berne. The amendments were required in the wake of the negative report from the Competition Commission (ComCo). Certain clauses in the agreement have...

Telkom, Nokia Siemens Networks deliver world’s longest repeater-free 40G channel submarine link. A 354 kilometer under-sea link in Indonesia, critical to the country’s international connectivity, has been upgraded by Nokia Siemens Networks. PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (PT Telkom), the largest telecom operator in Indonesia, now benefits...