Dell'Oro: Mobile Infrastructure Sales Up 33% in Q4 2010

Mobile infrastructure market revenues increased 33 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 to $11.2 billion, according to a recently published report from Dell'Oro Group. The report indicates that the market expansion was a result of continued strong WCDMA sales, as well as a pick up in the 2G market. In addition, vendors started recognizing significant LTE infrastructure revenues during the fourth quarter.The report indicates that the positive momentum...

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Interoute Tests Infinera's 100G Transmission

Interoute has completed testing of Infinera's new 500 Gbps photonic integrated circuits (PICs) delivering 100 Gbps channels over a fiber route from Amsterdam to London. The 100 Gbps channels originated in Amsterdam and traveled under the North Sea to London, where they were looped back and returned to Amsterdam, for a total distance of 940 km. The signals were received error-free despite a lengthy unrepeatered subsea link of 210 km between the Dutch...

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Ofcom Finds Broadband Promises Fall Short

Ofcom, the official telecoms regulator in the UK, has found that average broadband download speeds remain less than half of "up to" speeds advertised by some Internet Service Providers (ISPs), particularly for current generation copper-based ADSL services.The research shows that the average broadband speed increased from 5.2 Mbit/s (May 2010) to 6.2 Mbit/s (November/December 2010)* but was less than half (45 per cent) of the average advertised broadband...

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Avago's New mini-SFP+ Enables 30% More Port Density for 10 GigE & Storage

Avago Technologies announced two new fiber-optic transceivers that will enable 30% increased port density in 10 Gbps Ethernet equipment and 8Gbps Fibre Channel equipment. The new mini-SFP+ (mSFP) AFBR-54D7APZ transceiver for 8-Gbps Fibre Channel and AFBR-703SNZ transceiver for next-generation 10-Gbps Ethernet equipment incorporate Avago 850-nm Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) and PIN detector technology. This insures compliance with...

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CableLabs Issues DPoE Specifications

CableLabs issued DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE 1.0) specifications outlining a common approach for cable operators to use existing DOCSIS back office provisioning processes to deliver business services over EPON access networks. CableLabs said DPoE will enable higher velocity and highly scaled access into the business services marketplace because many suppliers already had achieved interoperability on the DOCSIS back office infrastructure. ...

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Nokia Builds Manufacturing in Vietnam

Nokia will invest approximately EUR 200 million to establish a new manufacturing site near Hanoi, Vietnam. The company expects to open the new plant in 2012. The site would further expand Nokia's manufacturing network, which currently consists of ten major facilities in nine countries.Nokia has a global manufacturing network stretching from Latin America (Brazil and Mexico) to Europe (Finland, Hungary, Romania, the UK) and Asia (China, India, Korea)....

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Corning Completes Purchase of MobileAccess

Corning completed its previously announced acquisition of MobileAccess.Financial terms were not disclosed.MobileAccess provides distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions for flexible wireless coverage in the rapidly growing wireless market. MobileAccess is being integrated into Corning Cable Systems as Corning MobileAccess, led by Michael D. Genovese, senior vice president, Wireless Networks. Corning Cable Systems, headquartered in Hickory, N.C.,...

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CyOptics Releases 40/100 Gbps Coherent Receivers

CyOptics announced the availability of its 40Gbps and 100Gbps Polarization-Multiplexed Quadrature Phase-Shift-Keying (PM-QPSK) Integrated Coherent Receivers for 40G and 100G coherent DWDM transmission systems. These optical Receivers expand CyOptics' growing portfolio of component solutions leveraging monolithic and hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).The receivers make use of CyOptics' extensive portfolio of high speed InP based balanced...

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TeraXion introduces Chromatic Dispersion Emulator

TeraXion introduced its CS-CDE compact, low loss chromatic dispersion module that emulates tens of thousands of picoseconds per nanometer and extends its ClearSpectrum dispersion compensator family. The PS-TNL, an ITLA-based Tunable Narrow Linewidth laser, offers white noise suppression using a patented optical filtering technique. Finally, the PS-LS Laser Synthesizer, featuring a high-gain analog optical phase-lock loop (OPLL), is also a new element to the PureSpectrum specialized lasers portfolio.http://www.teraxion....

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Proximion Ramps Production for FBG-based Dispersion Compensation

Proximion Fiber Systems has opened new production facilities in Kista, Sweden that significantly increase its capacity to deliver Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG)-based Dispersion Compensation Modules (DCMs). Proximion's DCMs offer low loss, reduced latency, and no non-linear effects as compared with alternate technology, while simultaneously reducing cost. The company is the only manufacturer of FBG-based continuous band (CB) devices, which provide full...

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Ciena Debuts WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors for 40/100G

Ciena introduced its new family of "WaveLogic" coherent optical processors for enabling 40G and 100G coherent transmission in terrestrial and submarine networks across ultra-long haul distances.Ciena's WaveLogic digital signal processors employ optical modulation for both transmit and receive to mitigate optical impairments. Ciena also uses soft-decision forward error correction (FEC).The latest generation of the chipset – WaveLogic T2 and R2 –...

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Verizon Activates 100 GigE using Juniper + Ciena

Verizon activated a 100 Gigabit Ethernet link for an IP backbone on a portion of its European long-haul network between Paris and Frankfurt, a distance of 893 km.The deployment uses Juniper Networks' routers and Ciena's 100G Ethernet coherent optical transport solution."We don't have to look too far into the future to know that bandwidth needs will continue to grow, so Verizon is taking this next step of deploying a 100G Ethernet link to stay ahead...

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