Fiber cuts cause a significant number of disruptions and outages. As businesses and consumers become increasingly intolerant of network failures, downtime can be very expensive...
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...
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is expected to soon publish the first version of a technical report that gives guidance for measuring the residual stress in...
While the roots of cable multiple-system operators (MSOs) are firmly planted in the delivery of video services, they have emerged as a strong presence in the overall networking...
Neil Salisbury, vice president of marketing at Kailight Photonics (www.kailight.com), believes there are several reasons why 40-Gbit/sec networking has not been more readily adopted...
One of the questions editors field just about every time they wander around an exhibition is, “So, what do you think of the show?” Needless to say, I was asked this question several...
The market for modules and components used in FTTX networks will grow from an estimated $629 million this year to more than $1.5 billion by 2011, contends a new report from CIR...
While the bulk of today’s networks still operate at 2.5-Gbit/sec transmission speeds, more and more carriers are moving to 10 Gbits/sec, with an eye toward 40 and even 100 Gbits...
While the battle for the consumers’ television dollar has gotten most of the ink in the trade press recently, the traditional telcos and cable multiple-system operators (MSOs)...
Bidirectional testerThe CrossFire is an automated dual-wavelength, bidirectional tester that measures insertion loss and optical return loss to -70 dB. It tests multiple wavelengths...
Clock recovery plays a significant role in making accurate test measurements, whether incorporated into the test setup or as part of the device under test. As most gigabit communication...
