BroadLight Partners with Korea's ETRI on XGPON

BroadLight is collaborating with Korea's National Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to develop and promote XGPON technology. The partnership aims to ensure a fully standardized XGPON (ITU-T G.987) initial deployment in Korea. BroadLight and ETRI are using their existing XGPON OLT and ONT technology for end to end interoperability testing. The test plan is based on efforts by FSAN to launch the first worldwide XGPON interoperability event. BroadLight plays an instrumental role in preparing this test plan as part of its...

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Infinera Unveils Next Step in Photonic Integrated Circuits -- 500 Gbps

Infinera introduced its third generation, 500 Gbps photonic integrated circuit (PIC) -- the foundation for its new DTN-X multi-terabit switching platform designed for scaling core networks. The 500 Gbps PIC integrates more than 600 optical functions and works by converting light waves into electrical circuits, which can then be switched and groomed with digital signal processing.The DTN-X combines three core functions-- a) a DWDM transmission system,...

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Verizon Wireless Launches LTE In 26 New Markets

Verizon Wireless announced the launch of its LTE service in 26 additional cities and the expansion of its network in San Francisco, Indianapolis and Cleveland/Akron. Verizon Wireless is now delivering LTE in a total of 143 markets across the United States. The carrier is currently offering 11 4G LTE-enabled device, including the new DROID BIONIC by Motorola which is the first Verizon Wireless smartphone to combine 4G LTE with the power of dual-core...

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AT&T Confirms LTE Launch for Sunday

AT&T confirmed plans to launch its first five LTE markets this Sunday, September 18.While AT&T believes the pending T-Mobile acquisition will be approved and implemented, AT&T is not standing still but pushing forward in a number of areas, said John Stephens, CFO at AT&T, speaking at the Bank Of America Merrill Lynch Conference. The company is not discussing any Plan B regarding the acquisition. Among the hottest areas of growth,...

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ZTE Wins China Unicom Transmission Contract

ZTE announced a contract with China Unicom to provide more than 70% of the transmission equipment for network upgrades in 15 provinces across China. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the project, ZTE will provide its ZXONE 8000 series OTN and ZXONE 5800 MSTP equipment. The contract covers 70% of the China Unicom OTN and WDM contracts and over 90% of its MSTP deployments. As a result of a rapid increase of WCDMA users and in-depth...

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Skorpios Raises $19 Million for Silicon Photonics

Skorpios Technologies, a start-up based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, raised $19 million in Series B round of financing for its composite silicon photonic technology.Skorpios Technologies has developed an advanced Composite Semiconductor on Insulator Technology promising lower cost, reduced size, and decreased power dissipation compared to traditional technology approaches. The technology allows the generation, detection and modulation of light to be monolithically integrated with high-speed electronic circuits in a standard CMOS-compatible process...

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Australia's Optus Sets LTE Launch for April 2012

Optus announced plans to launch commercial LTE service in April 2012. The rollout will begin with Newcastle, Port Stephens, the Hunter Valley and Lake Macquarie areas. A 4G capital city rollout will begin next month with Phase One to deliver LTE services in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth from mid-2012. Phase Two of the rollout will see an expansion of 4G LTE services to other capital cities and selected regional centres.Optus also announced that it...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Cites Packet Core Dominance in India

Nokia Siemens Networks announced that its intelligent mobile packet core solution has been selected by five mobile operators in India: with Bharti Airtel, Datacom, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and Uninor. Its platforms are carrying data traffic from all 22 circles in India serving around 250 million subscribers, the highest in the country. The Nokia Siemens Networks Evolved Packet Core solution consists of Flexi NS (Network Server) and Flexi...

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Alcatel-Lucent Tests 400G Network Processor with Spirent's Gear

Alcatel-Lucent is using Spirent Communications' testing tools to validate the performance of its new FP3 400G network processor in advance of its commercial introduction. Specifically, the Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics mX 40/100G is being used to test the FP3-based Service Router modules under real-world scenarios with high-scale services and traffic.http://www.spirent.com/ethernethttp://www.alcatel-lucent.com/fp3/In June 2011, Alcatel-Lucent unveiled its 400 Gbps, "FP3" network processor for enabling the full stack of services over IP routers....

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