Cisco's 100G CPAK CMOS-based Transceivers Deliver 70% Space and Power Savings

Cisco showcased its new 100 Gbps, CMOS-based transceiver technology at this week's OFC/NFOEC 2013 event in Anaheim, California. The new technology, which Cisco describes a breakthrough for the rollout of 100G services, is powered by Cisco’s nLight silicon. By integrating advanced optics in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, Cisco is able to significantly increase face-plate density for 100G pluggable optics. The Cisco...

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China Mobile and Ericsson Test Uplink Coordinated Multipoint in the TD-LTE

China Mobile and Ericsson have verified the performance of Uplink Coordinated Multipoint (UL CoMP) in a TD-LTE trial network. The companies confirmed that in cell edge areas, UL CoMP can achieve 50-100 percent uplink throughput gain. Ericsson said UL CoMP is one of the key technologies of LTE Advanced that can greatly improve network capacity and coverage.  The technology enhances uplink signal strength and effectively suppresses interference...

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Huawei Shows WDM Prototype Carrying 20x 2 Tbps Channels

Huawei is showcasing a 40T Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) prototype at this week's OFC/NFOEC 2013 event in Anaheim, California. The prototype supports simultaneous transmission of 20 C-band optical channels running at 2 Tbps, providing an industry-leading capacity of up to 40 Tbps per fiber. Huawei cited three innovations in its platform: The combined use of Electrical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (eOFDM) and frequency-domain...

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Huawei Develops All Optical Switching

Huawei showcased prototypes of an All-Optical Switching platform at this week's OFC/NFOEC 2013 event in Anaheim, California. The Optical Burst Transport Network (OBTN) prototype joins a Petabit Photonic Cross-Connect (PPXC) prototype showcased at earlier OFC/NFOEC events. This new All-Optical Switching Network architecture makes further advances in any-topology networking and coherent transmission for optical bursts. Huawei said All-Optical...

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Proximion Launches 16-port Flexible-Grid Optical Layer Monitor

Proximion AB, which develops optical modules and sub-systems based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) technology, introduced a 16-port, flexible-grid Optical Layer Monitoring product as part of its "WISTOM" line.  An 8-port version was already available. The 16-port WISTOM measures channel power, frequency, OSNR, wavelength drift, line-width & capacity utilization of 16 DWDM ports independently of channel plan, channel grid, modulation format...

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CommScope Acquires iTracs for Data Center Mgt

CommScope has acquired iTRACS, a company that specializes in open, enterprise-class data center infrastructure management (DCIM). Financial terms were not disclosed. iTRACS, which is based in Tempe, Arizona, offers a Converged Physical Infrastructure Management (CPIM) solution that provides a holistic view of the entire physical data center and that dynamically understands how a change or failure of a single device in the ecosystem affects the performance...

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South Korean Banks Hit in Cyber Attack

South Korean banks and TV broadcasters suffered a coordinated cyber attack on Wednesday afternoon.  Impacted organizations include Shinhan Bank, Nonghyup, KGS, MBC and YTN, with outages lasting several hours. North Korea is suspected in the attacks. http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=201303200007...

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Robert McDowell to Step Down from FCC

Robert McDowell announced plans to step down as FCC Commissioner in the coming weeks. In 2009, President Obama will renominated Robert M. McDowell for a second term as FCC Commissioner. McDowell, who is a Republican, was first nominated by President George W. Bush in 2006. Immediately prior to joining the FCC, Commissioner McDowell was senior vice president and assistant general counsel for COMPTEL, an association representing competitive facilities-based...

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QualiSystems Hits Testing Milestone -- 5 Million Devices

QualiSystems' TestShell Framework now manages more than five-million devices worldwide in the testing labs of network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), storage manufacturers, telecom operators, data center providers, Fortune 500 enterprises and electronics device manufacturers. The company said its TestShell is now installed in over 100 test labs worldwide and managing nearly $1 billion in lab equipment. TestShell enables test engineers to inventory,...

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ADTRAN Enhances its Total Access 5000 with 8x10GE Module

ADTRAN is enhancing its Total Access 5000 platform for the metro core with a new module that offers 8x10GE optical transport with Ethernet switching.  This expands the service delivery, aggregation and transport capacity of the Total Access® 5000, a 21 usable slot system, to more than 200 Gbps per slot. ADTRAN’s ONE solution suite integrates a packet optical solution with Broadband Access and Carrier Ethernet service delivery enabling seamless...

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Sunrise Telecom Adds OAM and MPLS-TP Test Capabilities

Sunrise Telecom has aded OAM (Operations, Administration and Management) and MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) capabilities to its RxT Smart Productivity Test Platform. The new features, which are integrated into the RxT 10GE module, enable service providers to successfully and efficiently deploy and maintain advanced Carrier Ethernet services such as LTE, IPTV and mobile backhaul. The OAM features of the RxT 10GE include connectivity check messages,...

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Cambium's High Capacity Line-of-Sight Radio Selected by USAF

The U.S. Air Force has selected Cambium Networks' point-to-point (PTP) 45600 High Capacity Line-of-Sight (HCLOS) radio for its Theater Deployable Communications (TDC PMO) program of record. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cambium said its PTP 45600 HCLOS radio will be used to provide reliable and secure voice, video and data functions for both deployable warfighters and first response missions anywhere in the world.  The Theater Deployable...

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Blackberry Founders Establish Venture Fund

Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, who together founded BlackBerry, announced Quantum Valley Investments, a new, $100 million private fund that will provide financial and intellectual capital for the further development and commercialization of breakthroughs in Quantum Information Science. Quantum Valley Investments is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. http://www.quantumvalleyinvestments.c...

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