Volume 5, Issue 1

FTTH in Europe: One year later

Jan. 1, 2008

2007 was the year that the phrase “fibre to the home” (FTTH) started to mean something in Europe. Before 2007, FTTH was viewed by many as a high-end technology aimed at the far...

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France helps cross the chasm to mass market fibre

Jan. 1, 2008

On the eve of the FTTH Council Europe conference, real FTTH competition has arrived. For the first time since the council was created, an incumbent—Orange—is driving the FTTH ...

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Four hot topics for 2008

Jan. 1, 2008

At the same time some of our readers will be in Paris for the FTTH Council Europe’s conference, others will be at OFC/NFOEC in San Diego. While at the show in California, attendees...

FTTH/B

France Telecom plans massive FTTH roll-out in 2009

Jan. 1, 2008

As the FTTH Council Europe prepares to host its annual conference in Paris on February 27–28, France Telecom’s plans to begin massive commercial FTTH roll-outs nationwide in 2009...

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Edge-to-core optical switching in metro apps

Jan. 1, 2008

With the rapid adoption of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) by wireline carriers, optical switching is being widely deployed across metro core, regional, ...

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Packet Transport

End-to-end Ethernet testing matures

Jan. 1, 2008

As you might expect from a predominantly LAN-based technology that has migrated into the WAN, Ethernet has suffered from a relative lack of standardisation when it comes to test...

Electronics

The road to SFP+: Examining module and system architectures

Jan. 1, 2008

SFP+ is the latest pluggable optical module form factor for use in 10 Gbit/s Ethernet and 8.5 Gbit/s Fibre Channel systems. The objectives of this new form factor are to increase...

Design & Manufacturing

Vitesse embeds waveform viewing into chip architectures

Jan. 1, 2008

Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (www.vitesse.com) says it has developed a technology that enables design engineers and end users to view waveforms within an IC, thus improving signal...

Network Design

Update

Jan. 1, 2008

iamba Networks (www.iamba.com) has teamed with a European sales representative, Scantec (www.scantec.de/us/), to advance its strategy to bring iGES (iamba GPON Eco-System), its...

Market Research

Global equipment market to exceed $109.9B in 2011

Jan. 1, 2008

The worldwide market for telecom infrastructure equipment will exceed $109.9 billion in 2011, increasing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2%, reveals new...

Transmission

Taking the guesswork out of PMD tolerance testing

Jan. 1, 2008

The dynamic nature of polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) makes system tolerance measurement and evaluation of systems and transponders particularly difficult. Simply defined, ...

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