MONTREAL – WDM-PON, a fiber network technology that dedicates a separate wavelength to each customer, enables vast increases in fiber capacity, but it has not been widely adopted because of its cost. Start-up equipment...
Read MoreROSEBURG, OR – SOLiD Technologies has launched ClearLight ACCESS, a high-capacity digital distribution solution that delivers 16 independent channels of traffic over a single strand of fiber. ClearLight ACCESS helps...
Read MoreESPOO, FINLAND – The next generation of fiber optic networks is fast approaching. Verizon is trying out 10GPON, ADVA is experimenting with WDM-PON, and now the European Union-funded SARDANA project (short for Scalable...
Read MoreNORCROSS, GA and MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, GERMANY – The battle for the next generation of fiber to the home is being fought out among different access technologies. While Verizon is getting attention for testing symmetrical...
Read MoreSTOCKHOLM - Telecom equipment vendor Ericsson, which has bought other assets of the bankrupt Nortel, will now acquire Nortel’s majority share (50 percent plus 1 share) in LG-Nortel, the joint venture of LG Electronics...
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS — Clearfield Inc. announced four application-specific packaging alternatives for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM), in addition to its industry-standard discrete (unpackaged) and LGX-style...
Read MoreCork, Ireland – Researchers at Ireland’s Tyndall National Institute demonstrated a technology that they say will fundamentally change the economics of providing fiber to the home. The new technology uses a...
Read MoreNorcross, GA, and Martinsried/Munich, Germany – ADVA Optical Networking opened a customer solution center in Meiningen, Germany, to demonstrate its WDM-PONÂ (Wavelength Division Multiplexing Passive Optical Networks)...
Read MoreSEOUL – LG-Nortel, the joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel, signed a reseller agreement to distribute its WDM-PON Ethernet Access solutions across North America through solutions provider Telamon. Telamon will...
Read MoreSEOUL – While WDM-PON — fiber to the premises based on wavelength division multiplexing — is often called the “end game” for broadband, one obstacle to its adoption is the lack of interoperable...
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