There’s a song from a previous generation (or, depending upon your age, several previous generations) that goes “everything that once was old is new again”. You hold in your hand...
Zarlink Semiconductor (www.zarlink.com) used last November’s Supercomputing 06 show to unveil the first quad small-form-factor pluggable (QSFP) parallel optical module. Based ...
Unlike European telecommunications companies, who are for the most part developing broadband strategies with similar goals, the communication divisions of Europe’s utilities are...
While the bulk of today’s networks still operate at 2.5 Gbit/s transmission speeds, more and more carriers are moving to 10 Gbit/s, with an eye towards 40 and even 100 Gbit/s....
The fifth annual FTTH Conference, held October 2-5 in The Venetian Hotel Casino Resort in Las Vegas, saw a record number of attendees and exhibitors. With 2,100 people attending...
The recent advances in nanofabrication provide many new opportunities to develop new devices that are cheaper and better than conventional alternatives. Quantum dot lasers, NanoOpto...
The submarine system supply business has always been a cyclical industry. Nevertheless, the big boom and bust in the early years of this new century have left an indelible mark...
New market drivers and new types of customers continue to drive the international submarine market, which began to recover last year after a period of slow growth.The market for...
An announcement by the alternative carrier Free to invest €1 billion in FTTH networks across France could be the project that the fibre-optics industry has been waiting for to...
The HFBR-7934Z four-channel parallel optical transceiver module complies with RoHS 6 and operates at 3.125 Gbit/s per channel for an aggregate bandwidth of 12.5 Gbit/s and a link...
Earlier this year ITU-T SG15/Q5 consented to a modified version of Recommendation G.655, “Characteristics of a Non-zero Dispersion-shifted Single-mode Optical Fibre (NZDSF) and...
