Volume 3, Issue 1

We’re back!

Dec. 1, 2006

There’s a song from a previous generation (or, depending upon your age, several previous generations) that goes “everything that once was old is new again”. You hold in your hand...

Transmission

Zarlink inaugurates new parallel optical transceiver form factor

Dec. 1, 2006

Zarlink Semiconductor (www.zarlink.com) used last November’s Supercomputing 06 show to unveil the first quad small-form-factor pluggable (QSFP) parallel optical module. Based ...

Market Research

European utility telecom divisions confront new market conditions

Dec. 1, 2006

Unlike European telecommunications companies, who are for the most part developing broadband strategies with similar goals, the communication divisions of Europe’s utilities are...

Electronics

10 Gbit/s dispersion compensation techniques abound

Dec. 1, 2006

While the bulk of today’s networks still operate at 2.5 Gbit/s transmission speeds, more and more carriers are moving to 10 Gbit/s, with an eye towards 40 and even 100 Gbit/s....

FTTH/B

FTTH Conference illustrates applications’ progress

Dec. 1, 2006

The fifth annual FTTH Conference, held October 2-5 in The Venetian Hotel Casino Resort in Las Vegas, saw a record number of attendees and exhibitors. With 2,100 people attending...

More content from Volume 3, Issue 1

Components

Nanofabrication tools promise new laser manufacturing methods

Dec. 1, 2006

The recent advances in nanofabrication provide many new opportunities to develop new devices that are cheaper and better than conventional alternatives. Quantum dot lasers, NanoOpto...

Market Research

Submarine systems supply market rebounds

Dec. 1, 2006

The submarine system supply business has always been a cyclical industry. Nevertheless, the big boom and bust in the early years of this new century have left an indelible mark...

Market Research

Global submarine cable market accelerates on road to recovery

Dec. 1, 2006

New market drivers and new types of customers continue to drive the international submarine market, which began to recover last year after a period of slow growth.The market for...

FTTH/B

France’s Free Telecom sets off FTTH revolution

Dec. 1, 2006

An announcement by the alternative carrier Free to invest €1 billion in FTTH networks across France could be the project that the fibre-optics industry has been waiting for to...

Transmission

Premier Products

Dec. 1, 2006

The HFBR-7934Z four-channel parallel optical transceiver module complies with RoHS 6 and operates at 3.125 Gbit/s per channel for an aggregate bandwidth of 12.5 Gbit/s and a link...

Network Design

ITU revises Recommendation G.655 for non-zero dispersion-shifted fibre

Dec. 1, 2006

Earlier this year ITU-T SG15/Q5 consented to a modified version of Recommendation G.655, “Characteristics of a Non-zero Dispersion-shifted Single-mode Optical Fibre (NZDSF) and...