In the blog - ECOC & CEWC
There was plenty to report from ECOC last week. Find out what caught our eye on the show floor in the fibresystems blog.
We also have the headline take on the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Berlin courtesy of Mark Lum's daily diary.
News & analysis
Draka, Bell Labs go ultra-long on 40G Sep 24, 2008
A new design of transmission fibre enables 40G transmission over transoceanic distances, as a postdeadline paper at ECOC will report.
JDSU unveils photonic integrated amplifier Sep 24, 2008
JDSU applies photonic integration to cut the size and cost while boosting performance and reliability of its high-end optical amplifier products.
ADVA creates 'plug and play' metro networks Sep 22, 2008
ADVA and CoreOptics have joined forces to develop a 10 Gbit/s optical module that can go 600 km without dispersion compensation.
Nanowires light up photonic crystals Sep 18, 2008
Researchers in the US and Korea have used semiconductor nanowires to couple light efficiently into photonic crystal waveguides.
Blog
Traffic control problems Sep 26, 2008
Mark Lum's diary from CEWC, Berlin.
Hegel's dialectics give way Sep 25, 2008
Mark Lum's diary from CEWC, Berlin.
An inconvenient technology Sep 24, 2008
Mark Lum's diary from CEWC, Berlin.
Products & Services
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New Ethernet Access Solution to Support Bandwidth-Hungry Users
Nortel
Oct 1, 2008
Integrated 40G DPSK Receiver
u2t Photonics AG
Sep 30, 2008
GX6157 Low Vpi Mach-Zender Driver
GigOptix LLC
Sep 30, 2008
X-BERT enters parallel testing
Luceo Technologies GmbH
Sep 18, 2008
u²t Photonics announced next generation 40G receiver
u2t Photonics AG
Sep 17, 2008
40 Gbps L-Band DPSK Product Line
StrataLight Communications
Oct 6, 2008
Current events
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