SyntheSys Offers BERTScope with Jitter Analysis Covering 80 MHz

SyntheSys Research introduced a new BERTScope Digital Communications Receiver with Jitter Analysis (DCRj) for telecom applications and developers of XFP and SFP+ transceivers.The DCRj, which is capable of showing the full 80 MHz spectrum, is a standalone jitter measurement solution with built-in compliant clock recovery that also provides OC-192/STM-64 and 10GbE reference receiver capability to the BERTScope series of analyzers and third-party instruments...

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Equinix Completes Acquisition of IXEurope, Raises Guidance

Equinix completed its previously-announced acquisition of IXEurope Plc, which operates 14 data centers across Europe. IXEurope's 14 data centers comprise more than 380,000 square feet of net sellable space throughout Europe, including centers in London, Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Dusseldorf and Geneva. The company serves more than 450 enterprise and Internet customers, including Merrill Lynch, Avis Europe, Deutsche Boerse, Citigroup, Rackspace...

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ITU Focuses on Connect "Africa" Initiative

This week the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is hosting a series of events at U.N. headquarters in New York aimed at building support for the "Connect Africa Initiative", whose mission is to bridge major gaps in ICT infrastructure in Africa with the aim of supporting affordable connectivity, applications and services. Connect Africa aims to promote the private sector investment required for sustainable network infrastructure development....

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NeoPhotonics Unveils "Ultra" Tunable Laser covering 200 Wavelengths

NeoPhotonics unveiled a new tunable laser that can be tuned to any of 200 wavelengths and is suitable for metro, long-haul and ultra long-haul DWDM networks with data rates from 2.5G to 40 Gbps.NeoPhotonics' new ultra widely tunable NTL2000 laser features an 80 nm tuning range, enabling it to transmit virtually the same output waveform at every frequency in the C-band, L-band, extended L-band (XL-band), or both C+L bands (tuning over 80 nm with channel...

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Opnext Releases XENPAK 10G LRM Modules

Opnext announced the release of a second form-factor in its 10G LRM optical pluggable module family. Opnext said the modules offer very low power consumption, superior transmission characteristics and high temperature performance for enterprise and campus networks which want to upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. http://www.opnext....

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Xilinx Opens Regional Headquarters Building In Singapore

Xilinx opened a new, expanded regional headquarters in Singapore. Located in the Changi Business Park, the new 20,000 square meter Xilinx Asia Pacific (XAP) headquarters can house up to 500 employees, providing four times the capacity of its previous on-site manufacturing facility and three times the in-house process development resources.http://www.xilinx....

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Gemfire Raises $37 Million for Integrated Photonics

Gemfire, a start-up based in Fremont, California with manufacturing in Scotland, raised $37 million in funding for its integrated photonics sub-systems and planar lightwave circuits for telecom and defense related applications.The Gemfire "PhotonIC" planar technology platform enables wafer-scale processing to produce optical components, such as VMUXs, Athermal and standard AWGs, TODCs, and VOAs. Gemfire has been shipping its Telcordia qualified...

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