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...
SFP-based ONUs expand multipoint Ethernet market/Anritsu Company introduces optical spectrum analyzer with fast sweep time
Ethernet is the least common denominator of all wireline network services. Growing from its roots in data communications, Ethernet has become the ultimate de-facto network standard for all data (including Internet), voice, video, and now wireless backhaul. With Ethernet as the basis for interoperability, the...
US Conec develops PRIZM LightTurn connector/NeoPhotonics introduces 10G PON transceivers for FTTP networks
MARCH 28, 2010 — US Conec has announced the immediate availability of its PRIZM LightTurn connector for photonic turn parallel optic interconnect. Designed as a miniature detachable connector for Avago Technologies’ new MicroPOD 120-Gbps board-mounted parallel optic modules (see “Avago Technologies unveils miniature embedded parallel...
Maxim introduces low-jitter, integrated 10 Gbps chipset/Infonetics: SFP+, tunable XFPs to drive 10G/40G/100G transceiver market to $1.44B by 2014
Infonetics: SFP+, tunable XFPs to drive 10G/40G/100G transceiver market to $1.44B by 2014MAY 26, 2010 — Maxim Integrated Products introduces a 1.0625 Gbps to 11.3 Gbps transmit/receive system composed of the MAX3946 laser driver with impedance-mismatch tolerance and the MAX3945 dual-path limiting amplifier. This 10GBASE-SR/LR...
