OFS Introduces TrueWave Medium and Long Haul Ocean Fiber

OFS introduced a new fiber for use in submarine cables engineered for long and medium haul ocean repeatered systems utilizing advanced modulation formats, e.g., RZ-DPSK, in dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) systems.The new TrueWave HD ocean fiber offers a large negative dispersion value of -14 ps/nm-km, taking advantage of the fact that newer modulation formats allow for larger values of accumulated dispersion without deleterious non-linear...

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Cisco Connects umi and TelePresence Platforms

Cisco is enabling businesses to connect with consumers via full interoperability between Cisco umi and the Cisco TelePresence portfolio for businesses. Cisco is also announcing an expansion of its umi product line with a range of options, from free HD desktop video to high-quality immersive telepresence experiences on an HDTV. Cisco umi is a consumer product that delivers a high-quality, immersive video calling experience that goes beyond just...

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Facebook to Offer Movie Streaming

Facebook will begin streaming full-length Hollywood movies on its site beginning with "The Dark Knight" from Warner Bros., which will cost $3 in Facebook credits to rent for a 48-hour period. http://www.facebook....

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Sprint and T-Mobile Consider Possible Merger

Deutsche Telekom and Sprint are reportedly in talks over a possible combination of Sprint + T-Mobile USA, according to various media reports. Such a deal would have approximately 84 million mobile users but be running GSM and CDMA. A spokesman for Deutsche Telekom said T-Mobile USA is in a flexbile negotiating position as it has several options to explore. http://www.sprint.com http://www.telekom...

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Napatech Announces 40GE Adapter for Network Monitoring

Napatech introduced a 40 Gbps Ethernet adapter for network monitoring and analysis. The adapter provides a single QSFP-based 40 GbE port and can be used for both packet capture and transmission.Napatech focuses exclusively on the needs of network appliance vendors for full packet capture and transmission with zero packet loss.Intelligent features are provided in the NT40E2-1 for frame decoding, intelligent flow detection and distribution to up to...

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NetLogic Showcases 10G/40G/100G Ethernet PHY/SerDes

NetLogic Microsystems is showcasing its portfolio of high-performance 10-100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) PHY/SerDes devices, including:Quad-channel 10G PHY devices with SFP+ SR and direct-attached copper40G PHY devices with QSFP+ 40G optical modulesQuad-channel 10G PHY/SerDes devices with EDC (10GBASE-LRM) 10GbE devices for backplane applications (10GBASE-KR)40GbE/100GbE applications with MLD interfaces.NetLogic Microsystems' portfolio of devices supports 10Gbps SFI-to-XFI, SFI-to-XAUI and RXAUI, nPPI to nAUI, 10GBASE-KR and KR4 to XFI, XAUI and RXAUI,...

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Ralink Enters VDSL Market with 100Mbps Home Gateway Solution

Ralink Technology Corporation made its entry into the VDSL market with the introduction of a VDSL2/ADSL2+ processor. It supports the VDSL2 30a profile with up to 100 Mbps upstream/downstream throughput, and that enables ADSL fallback for backward compatibility. The chip includes a 32-bit MIPS 34Kc CPU and a VDSL Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) engine. It provides data rates of up to 100 Mbps symmetrically to support high-performance broadband gateway applications. http://www.ralinktech.com...

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Mindspeed Releases 10G-EPON Burst-Mode Receiver Chipset

Mindspeed Technologies announced commercial availability of its 10 Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (10G-EPON) burst-mode receiver chipset. Mindspeed's 10G burst mode dual-rate transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and burst mode multi-rate limiting amplifier work together provide a solution for 10G-EPON Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) while being backward-compatible with existing GEPON designs. The M02138 TIA device features dynamic rate selection...

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Orange Business Signs GDF Suez for Managed Services

Orange Business Services announced a six-year deal with GDF SUEZ, a French energy group and the world's second-largest energy company, for the management of its information system. The partnership not only includes standard facilities management such as hosting, infrastructure operation and running ERP applications, but also covers setting up a shared engineering team in charge of developing the Group's solutions to match the needs of its business...

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Avago: Optical Innovations Drive Data Center, Storage, Telecom

Avago Technologies introduced a number of optical innovations at this week's the 2011 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), including::Sampling availability of its small-footprint MiniPOD embedded parallel optical transmitters and receivers that enable bandwidth of up to 120 Gigabits per second (Gbps). The embedded parallel optics allow fiber optic interfaces to be located close to an ASIC or FPGA. Applications could include next-generation supercomputers,...

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Menara Offers Tunable XFP and XENPAK Modules with Integrated OTN

Menara Networks announced general availability of its full C-band Tunable OTN XFP and OTN XENPAK with integrated G.709 OTN framing and forward error correction.The Full C-band 50GHz Tunable OTN XFP and OTN XENPAK transceivers offer complete high performance optical networking functions including integrated ITU-T G.709 OTU-2 framing, OTN alarms and performance monitoring processing, Forward Error Correction for OSNR gain, automatic receiver threshold adaptation based on Forward Error Correction feedback and SBS suppression for ultra long reach systems....

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OFS and Furukawa Launch 100 Gbps Coherent Tunable Laser

Furukawa Electric Co. and OFS announced a high-output narrow-linewidth full-band tunable laser for ultra-high bit rate 100-Gbps digital coherent transmission. The full-band tunable laser provides superior performance as a signal light source and/or a local light source for digital coherent communication systems. Furukawa Electric has begun shipping commercial samples. http://www.furukawa.co.jp/englishhttp://www.ofsoptics....

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Opnext's 40GBASE-LR4 QSFP+ Transceiver Spans 10km of SMF

Opnext introduced a quad small form factor pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceiver module that uses single mode optics to transmit 40GbE traffic over a distance of 10km. The 40GbE QSFP+ module extends an existing 40G family of products offered by Opnext, including the 40GBASE-LR4 module in the larger CFP form factor which is seeing initial deployments in customer systems now and has recently been announced as production released. 40GBASE-LR4 technology offers OEMs a lower cost, longer reach alternative to traditional 40G Sonet/SDH client interfaces...

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Semtech Ships First 100G MUX/DEMUX chipset

Semtech has begun shipping a 100Gbps gearbox chipset for 100Gbps CFP MSA applications. The CFP (100G Form-factor Pluggable) transceiver MSA (Multi-Source Agreement) defines a hot-pluggable optical transceiver form-factor for 100Gbps, high-speed Ethernet applications for data and telecommunication networks. Semtech's Theta SR SMI10021 multiplexer (MUX) and SMI10031 demultiplexer (DEMUX) gearbox ICs provide bandwidth of up to 113Gbps to support 100GbE...

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NeoPhotonics Develops Coherent Receiver with Polarizing Beam Splitter

NeoPhotonics introduced an Integrated Coherent Receiver (ICR) for 40 and 100 Gbps DWDM transmission systems that incorporates an integrated polarizing beam splitter (PBS), eliminating the need to place a PBS externally.The NeoPhotonics ICR is designed to provide advanced demodulation to analyze the state-of-polarization and optical phase of a phase-modulated signal relative to an externally supplied optical reference signal, enabling recovery of...

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