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  • Volume 5, Issue 6

    • Volume 5, Issue 6

    Market Research

    Is high-speed networking impervious to the downturn?

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Stephen HardyWith the global economy in a tailspin, many optical communications companies have lowered their revenue expectations under the belief that carriers will curb their...
    Transmission

    New Products

    Nov. 1, 2008
    Photonic integrated platformThe HyBoard hybrid photonic integrated circuit (PIC) platform enables systems integrators to offer high–performance, highly functional, custom PICs...
    Market Research

    European utilities require more fibre

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Kurt RudermanFears of dwindling energy sources and a global economic crisis could be the catalysts that telecoms equipment vendors have been waiting for to accelerate the deployment...
    Home

    Events in Brussels provide WDM–PON insights

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Gerlas van den HovenFor two weeks in September, Brussels, the political capital of Europe, also became the fibre–to–the–home (FTTH) capital. The city first hosted the European...
    FTTH/B

    update

    Nov. 1, 2008
    France Telecom's Orange (www.orange.com) and SFR (originally Société Française de Radiotéléphone) have broadened their recent cooperation agreement by planning to implement a...

    More content from Volume 5, Issue 6

    Packet Transport

    Ethos Networks touts 'simple' packet transport

    Nov. 1, 2008
    Israeli–based Ethos Networks (www.ethos–networks.com) was founded in 2004, several years before the concept of Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) was conceived. At the time, there...
    Home

    Is DP-QPSK the endgame for 100 Gbits/sec?

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Meghan Fuller HannaThe Optical Internetworking Forum (www.oiforum.com) this summer agreed to begin work on a project framework for 100–Gbit/sec long–haul transmission, focusing...
    Home

    FEC and EDC drive metro/Carrier Ethernet

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Mark Donovan and Keith ConroyWith new data and video applications driving massive increases in Internet traffic, service providers and telecom and datacom OEMs have been under...
    FTTH/B

    A preview of coming attractions

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Stephen HardyNext month will bring not only a new year, but a new look to Lightwave Europe. The reformatting of the publication is inspired by the fact that most of you now...
    FTTH/B

    Regulatory uncertainty may be clearing

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Kurt RudermanEfforts by the European Commission (EC) to put in place a new telecoms framework that focuses on broadband fibre access technologies have raised optimism at the...
    Home

    In Amsterdam, even houseboats are well–connected

    Nov. 1, 2008
    by Meghan Fuller HannaAmong readers of Lightwave Europe, the acronym "FTTH" is well–understood to mean fibre to the home. But for subscribers of Amsterdam's CityNet network, the...