SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 — Finisar Corp. is demonstrating several new technologies and products at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications (ECOC) in Torino, Italy, including its new Flexgrid technology for next-generation ROADMs, a Board Mounted Optical Engine operating at 240 Gb/s, and a...
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GigOptix debuts low-power 14G VCSEL driver, TIA for SFP+/ADTRAN adds Active Ethernet to FTTP offerings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 — GigOptix, Inc. (OTCBB:GGOX) has announced the sampling of its new pre-production chipset for short-reach 2- to 14-Gbps serial optical interconnects. GigOptix asserts its latest offering provides a complete serial link chipset for applications up to 14 Gbps. The GigOptix chipset comprises...
NeoPhotonics unveils SFP transceivers for bi-directional single-fiber communication/Calix expands residential and business Ethernet fiber access products
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 — NeoPhotonics has debuted at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE 2010) a new line of Compact SFP (C-SFP) transceivers that combine two bi-directional Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) or Gigabit Ethernet transceivers in a single SFP package. NeoPhotonics says its C-SFP’s compact...
ADTRAN offers NetVanta 1534, NetVanta 1544 managed Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet switches/Preparing for the bandwidth explosion
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 — ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) has unveiled its second generation of high-density, managed Layer 3, 28-port Gigabit Ethernet switches. The new NetVanta 1534 and NetVanta 1544 platforms are designed to deliver greater bandwidth and feature enhancements that optimize business communications, mission-critical network...
Centec Networks intros CTC6048 packet-processing silicon for Carrier Ethernet/GigOptix intros low-power SMART optical subassemblies
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 — Centec Networks, a Chinese IP/Ethernet switching silicon and ODM/OEM system products company, says it has expanded its family of packet-processing chipsets with the CTC6048. The second-generation IP/Ethernet switching processor integrates a Layer 2 through Layer 4 packet-processing engine, traffic manager, and...
BroadLight launches BL23500 40-nm GPON processor family/Vitesse PHYs target high-density Carrier Ethernet, mobile backhaul, and enterprise networks
AUGUST 2, 2010 By Stephen Hardy — GPON chip vendor BroadLight has unveiled the BL23500, its third-generation GPON processor family. The BL23500 devices, made via a 40-nm process, will combine a MIPS controller, the in-house developed RunnerGrid Network Processor, and a VoIP DSP, says Didi...
Cable&Wireless adds 100 Gbps to Hong Kong and Singapore nets/LION2 submarine network consortium uses Ciena switching gear
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...
