Lightwave is pleased to recognize the winners of its fourth annual Attendees' Choice Awards, held at the 2004 Optical Fiber Communications Conference in February. The awards are designed to provide a "grass roots" view of what's hot and what's not, and many OFC attendees took the time to tell us which products impressed them the most at the show. Look for additional Attendees' Choice Awards opportunities at the upcoming NFOEC 2004 in September.
Product information on the more than 60 product nominees that participated in the OFC Attendees' Choice Awards is contained in the February issue of Lightwave and available at www.lightwaveonline.com.The OPTera Metro 3500 next-generation SONET platform enables the creation of new differentiated storage and Ethernet ..services while leveraging existing infrastructure. It provides multiservice aggregation through a wide range of interfaces, including DS-1/-3, Transmux, STS-1, OC-3/-12/-48/-192, 10/100Base-T and 100Base-FX Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and storage (Fibre Channel and Ficon), for optical broadband networking. Nortel Networks, St. Laurent, Quebec
For PC and APC 2.5-mm ferrules in the field or on the production floor, Ferrule Mate can clean connectors plugged into the backside of a panel or inside an enclosure. Its dust cap has a flip-open end for inserting any ferrule or connector for ..cleaning. Features include a spring-loaded tip for consistent cleaning and an adjustable head for angle-mounted adapters.
Seikoh Giken USA, Norcross, GA
For SONET/SDH systems operating from 9.9 to 11.3 Gbits/sec, the VSC8477 16:1 SerDes transceiver includes an integrated multiplexer, an input equalizer, an adaptive demultiplexer, a clock recovery unit, and a clock multiplier unit. A VGA front-end programmable input-signal gain and bandwidth equalization is integrated with the transceiver. It adjusts the threshold and phase sampling points on two internal independent sampling channels. The two-channel architecture enables relative bit-error-rate monitoring without affecting the active data channel's integrity.
Vitesse, Camarillo, CA