Volume 5, Issue 6

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 FranÃ§aise de Radiotéléphone) have broadened their recent cooperation agreement by planning to implement a...

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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...

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