China Mobile Awards $46 Million Contract to Nortel Networks

China Mobile awarded a contract valued at US$46 million to Nortel Networks to expand and optimize its GSM digital wireless network in Hebei province. When completed, the expansion is expected to increase Hebei Mobile's subscriber capacity by approximately 880,000. It is also expected to provide Hebei Mobile with a smooth migration path to 3G. http://www.nortelnetworks....

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Santur Announces Small Form-Factor Tunable Laser Products

Santur Corporation introduced smaller and lower cost versions of its widely tunable, DFB array-based laser products, which are designed into many transponders and linecards for both metro and long-haul DWDM systems. The products are capable of on-demand tunability across the C- or L-band at CW power levels up to 20 mW. Santur said its latest design is the size of a standard 12.7 x 30 mm butterfly package, enabling easier integration into the tight confines of today's transponders and line-cards. Nevertheless, it contains the same basic internal...

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OCP Announces OC-48/STM-16 SFP Transceivers

Optical Communication Products announced the availability of its 40km and 80km OC-48/STM-16 small form pluggable (SFP) transceivers. They feature integrated optical isolators and digital diagnostics monitoring (DDM) to support long distance metropolitan area networking (MAN) applications. OCP's OC-48/STM-16 SFP transceivers are available to support short, intermediate and long reach applications at both 1310nm and 1550nm. The DFB lasers used in intermediate and long reach transceivers utilize an integrated optical isolator for stable transmitter...

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Pulver Comments on FCC Ruling

In a press statement, Free World Dialup (FWD) Founder Jeff Pulver said: "By declaring Free World Dialup's end-to-end IP communications as an unregulated interstate information service, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has set the first critical brick of our broadband future, affirming its commitment to keep the Internet free from unnecessary regulation. .....We will watch with interest how the impact of this classification evolves in the VoIP rulemaking process, and reaffirm our commitment to working with policymakers on these issues....

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Sumitomo Electric to Demonstrate New Range of 10G Transceivers

ExceLight Communications, a U.S.-based unit of Sumitomo Electric, is showing a 40-km XFP transceiver for SONET OC-192 IR-2 applications at this week's OFC in Los Angeles. A companion transceiver for 10GBASE-ER is also available. The XFP models can operate up to 70 degrees C using Sumitomo's temperature-controlled 1550-nm EML TOSA and PIN-TIA ROSA. They also feature a newly developed mini thermoelectric cooler (TEC), which requires only 60% of the power used by a conventional TEC. Sumitomo is already shipping samples of these 40-km products, as...

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TIA Marks One Year Anniversary of FCC's Triennial Review

The pick-up in economic activity among broadband access suppliers is a result of the FCC's vote one year ago to approve a report and order in its Triennial Review of the Network Unbundling Rules proceeding, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). The FCC decision included significant relief from the unbundling rules for investment in last mile broadband access facilities. However, TIA observed that uncertainty remains from the ongoing court challenges to the order and pending reconsiderations. Matthew J. Flanigan, president...

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FCC Spells Out Pulver.com Ruling in 29-Page Order

The FCC released its 29-page Declaratory Ruling in which it finds that Pulver.com's Free World Dial-up (FWD) is neither "telecommunications" nor a "telecommunications service." The ruling declares FWD to be an unregulated information service and subject to federal jurisdiction. FCC Commissioners voted 4-to-1 to approve pulver.com's petition on 12-February-2002. The newly released order spells out in detail how the decision was made.The FCC noted that its classification of FWD as an unregulated information service was based on the fact that FWD...

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Tokyo Electron Teams with Procket and Fujitsu for Media Exchange Backbone

Media Exchange Inc. is working with Procket Networks, Fujitsu Ltd. And Tokyo Electron to build what is described as "the highest performance Internet backbone in the world" in Tokyo. Media Exchange's backbone will integrate Procket Networks' PRO/8801 40 Gbps router and Next Generation Switch. In addition to commencing test operations, the participants will conduct technical verifications including the operation of the Procket Networks router with edge routers for peering with other Japan carriers. http://www.procket.comhttp://www.fujitsu....

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Bookham Introduces 2.5 Gbps Directly Modulated Laser with 360 km Reach

Bookham Technology introduced a 2.5 Gbps directly modulated laser (DML) that is tunable over eight adjacent 50GHz ITU DWDM channels. The laser has a 360km reach and is available in 2, 3 and 4mW peak-power versions. Bookham said the 360km reach is a record for an eight channel thermally tunable DML, and mounts a serious challenge to the electro-absorption (EA) modulation designs that currently dominate this transmission distance. EA modulated lasers are more expensive than its new device, which is better suited to automated card set-up, tuning and...

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BT hits Two Million Wholesale ADSL Customers

BT passed its target of two million wholesale broadband connections. The latest million connections have come in little more than eight months. BT credited several factors for quick pace of adoption:two major wholesale broadband price cuts helping to make UK retail prices among the best value in Europe. Broadband in the UK costs only the equivalent of nine SMS text messages or "less than half a pint of beer a day."a registration and trigger scheme that has helped identify where demand is strongest. BT has worked with more than 600 local action...

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