ADVA Joins C3PO Project Developing Next Gen Optical Components

ADVA Optical announced its participation in C3PO, a project co-funded by the European Commission that aims to design and develop a new generation of energy-efficient photonic and electronic components.The C-3PO project is working on silica-based integrated components that are not wavelength-specific (e.g., colorless) but that have high performance for DWDM applications. The deliverables at the end of the three-year project will include low-cost,...

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Zarlink Intros OTN Timing Chip

Zarlink Semiconductor introduced two new single-chip ClockCenter universal clock translator products for multiservice platforms targeting optical transport network (OTN) expansion.Zarlink's ClockCenter universal clock translator provide translation from any input frequency to any output clock frequency with jitter performance that can directly drive 10G PHY devices. The devices synchronize "any rate, any port, all the time", meaning a single-chip ClockCenter solution accepts and generates any frequency (1 kHz to 720 MHz) required to support all...

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Global Crossing Supplies IP-VPN for Major League Baseball

Global Crossing has provided an IP-VPN linking all 30 Major League Baseball ballparks and the MLB.com servers in New York City. The network enables live streaming video on MLB.com. Global Crossing installed 155Mbps fiber optic access loops at each ballpark and a 2.5 Gbps access loop in New York. The VPN runs over Global Crossing's global, IP-based MPLS network. "Adopting managed services allows us to focus our internal resources on core competencies while servicing day-to-day requirements through technology delivered as a service," said Joe Choti,...

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IPWireless and Altair Show Multi-Band, Multi-Mode LTE Modem

IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor announced an LTE USB modem that will support multiple frequency bands including the 800MHz digital dividend band, 1800 MHz and 2.5 GHz. Subsequent devices will also support the entire US 700MHz and AWS frequency. Samples of the device will be available by September, 2010, with commercial availability before the end of the year.IPWireless' LTE device will incorporate Altair's FourGee-3100 baseband and FourGee-6200...

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Roke Develops 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell

Roke Manor Research announced a small form factor 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell with a 40km range. The product supports up to twelve simultaneous users, with Release 5 HSDPA, and a software upgrade to Release 6 HSUPA. It is based on picoChip's silicon. Roke said its solution could be used to cost-effectively serve sparsely-populated rural areas that are conventionally thought of as uneconomic, or to quickly deploy cellular coverage, for example...

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Sagem Wireless and ST-Ericsson Partner on LTE

ST-Ericsson and Sagem Wireless are collaborating on the development of multimode LTE/HSPA+ reference designs, devices and modules. Specifically, the companies are working on a multimode platform, which can connect to LTE, HSPA+, 3G and GSM networks, to develop a mobile broadband modem to be launched before the end of 2010. Supporting downlink speeds of up to 100 Mbps via LTE and 21 Mbps via HSPA+, Sagem Wireless' dongle modems will enable Internet...

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Zayo Forms Dark Fiber Solutions Group

The Zayo Group has formed a new Fiber Solutions business unit to design, build, and manage unlit fiber-optic networks (or dark fiber services) for wholesale, enterprise, and government customers. On July 1, 2010, Zayo completed its acquisition of AGL Networks (AGL). Dark fiber based services made up 100% of AGL's revenue. On June 30, 2010, Zayo announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire American Fiber Systems Holding Corporation (AFS)....

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Fujitsu Adds Syringa to STAR Program

Syringa Networks, which operates a fiber optic network across Idaho, has joined the Fujitsu Strategic Authorized Reseller (STAR) program. This reseller partnership combines marketing and educational support from Fujitsu with distribution expertise from Syringa Networks. The Fujitsu STAR program aligns business objectives with program components such as direct marketing campaigns, demonstration equipment, training, certifications and sales lead generation.http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom http://www.syringanetworks....

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Orange Business Services Establishes Telepresence Community

Orange Business Services announced several new enhancements to its Telepresence portfolio aimed at encouraging enterprise adoption. These include the addition of a Telepresence Community that provides direct access to Cisco's 800 Telepresence rooms.Orange Business Services is currently working on pooling Telepresence infrastructure in hosted and managed modes, ultimately offering Telepresence as a cloud service. A launch is expected in the near...

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Qwest Offers IPv6 to Government and Corporate Customers

Qwest Communications is offering public and private IPv6 addresses to its government and business customers. Key functionality includes the ability to use the next generation of addressing protocol to run both IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses via either a Dual Stack approach -- which offers the ability to run both IPv4 and IPv6 -- or Native IPv6 -- which allows Qwest customers to adapt to the next-generation IP protocol as they build new locations and...

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NEC to Upgrade APCN2 Cable to 40 Gbps DWDM

NEC was awarded a multi million-dollar contract to upgrade the existing APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2) with 40 Gbps DWDM technology.APCN2, which spans over 19,000km and connects 10 landing stations in the Asia Pacific region, was originally supplied by NEC in 2001 with a 10 Gbps DWDM system design. In response to the rising transmission demands in the region, NEC proposed its 40 Gbps DWDM technology to expand capacity. NEC estimates that by...

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Internet2 Appoints Dave Lambert as CEO

Internet2 has appointed H. David (Dave) Lambert as its new president and CEO, replacing Douglas Van Houweling. Lambert currently serves as the Vice President for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at Georgetown University. He is a founding member of the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), a regional advanced Internet consortium, which provides critical connectivity for the research and education community and for many government agencies...

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