Cable&Wireless Worldwide, whose addition of 100-Gbps to certain European routes was announced last month (see “Cable&Wireless Worldwide chooses Ciena for 100-Gbps link”), has added similar capabilities to metro networks in Hong Kong and Singapore. As with the European deployment, Cable&Wireless will leverage Ciena Corp.’s (NASDAQ:...
Kabel Deutschland achieves 4.7 Gbps downstream with ARRIS gear/Cablenet of Cyprus taps Ekinops for capacity upgrade
ARRIS Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) says that German cable MSO Kabel Deutschland has used a EuroDOCSIS 3.0-based ARRIS C4 CMTS and 12 ARRIS Touchstone Cable Modem CM820S units to deliver 4.7 Gbps of aggregated downstream data. Kabel Deutschland conducted the tests at a school in...
Dell’Oro: 1Q12 access equipment revenue slips slightly/Verizon boosts top FiOS FTTH speed to 300 Mbps
The Dell’Oro Group says in a newly published report that first quarter 2012 revenue for access equipment (cable, DSL, and PON) including infrastructure equipment and CPE declined 8% sequentially. The shrinkage was significantly smaller than reported by Infonetics Research, which pegged the dropped at 22%...
IFN taps Ciena for packet-optical upgrade/IFN taps Ciena for packet-optical upgrade
Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) says Indiana Fiber Network (IFN) will deploy Ciena’s 5430 Packet-Optical Reconfigurable Switching System (RSS) and OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane software to expand the capacity and service flexibility of its backbone network, and provide assured service delivery. IFN is a statewide fiber-optic...
Pacnet and Infinera demo 500G optical superchannels in Asia/PacketLight Networks enhances video support
Pacnet and Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ: INFN) have completed a joint demonstration in which they transmitted more than 3 Tbps of optical capacity over 4,500 km of Pacnet’s C2C undersea network using Infinera’s photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and FlexCoherent superchannels. Infinera is one of the first...
AFOP releases improved small form factor VOA/Telco Systems announces temperature-hardened demarcation device
MARCH 3, 2010 — Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. (AFOP) has unveiled an improved small form factor pluggable (SFP) variable optical attenuator (VOA) that integrates an electrically controlled VOA into a standard SFP module. The SFP VOA incorporates the company’s iC|VOA technology, which is designed...
New Maxim SFP+ optical module controller with analog LDD interface is SFF-8472 compatible/Cortina touts low latency of new CS4315 EDC chip
MARCH 15, 2010 — Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) has introduced the DS1873 SFP+ controller with analog LDD interface. Combined with the MAX3736 laser driver, the DS1873 is designed to control and monitor all functions for SFF, SFP, and SFP+ optical modules, while fully supporting...
Luxpert Technologies announces XFP, 80-km SFP+, single channel EDFA/OE Solutions showcases 10Gb/s single-fiber, bi-directional SFP+ transceiver at OFC 2010
MARCH 19, 2010 — LuXpert Technologies of Korea has announced three new products ahead of OFC/NFOEC. They include a 10-km XFP optical transceiver, an 80-km SFP+ optical transceiver, and a single channel miniature EDFA. The DLXP-x31xx7-3G 10-km XFP is the first of a family of...
AppliedMicro’s PQX debuts high-density framer/PHY SoC for multi-10G/40G/100G Carrier Ethernet and OTN applications/Global optical transceiver market continues recovery
MARCH. 22, 2010 — Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AppliedMicro) announced the PQX, which the company describes as the industry’s highest-density, lowest-power 10G/40G Optical Transport Network (OTN) framer/PHY System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for Carrier Ethernet router and WDM transport systems. With 60 Gigabits of total capacity, the PQX...
Broadcom introduces all DSP 40nm 10GbE SFP+ PHYs/ClariPhy granted patents enabling standards-based testing of networking components
MARCH 31, 2010 — Broadcom Corp., maker of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, announced its 40 nanometer (nm) quad-channel 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) devices. The products are designed to provide ultra low power consumption and savings of approximately 30 percent over...
