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September 25, 2008
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The Lightwave group of publications, the leading source of information on fiber-optic communications since 1984, is pleased to deliver today's Lightwave Direct. Each day Lightwave Direct brings you the latest in optical communications systems and components news, new products, and trends. Here are the day's top stories from around the world, as selected by the editors at Lightwave.


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In the News

On the Lightwave Channel: The FTTXcellence Award
 Jim Hansen, senior vice president of Network Services at Embarq, received the 2008 FTTXcellence Award during the opening general session of the 2008 FTTH Conference & Exposition in Nashville, TN. Watch a video from the awards presentation here. More...
Verizon, Nokia Siemens Networks claim new record for 100G transmission
 Verizon and Nokia Siemens Networks carried out a successful field trial of 100-Gbit/sec transmission on a single wavelength for more than 1,040 kilometers of field fiber, setting a new distance record and demonstrating better performance than conventional transmission, they claim. More...
FTTH Council: 3.76 million North American households connected
 The upgrading of North America's last mile networks with end-to-end fiber is continuing at a robust pace, with FTTH arriving at more than 1.6 million households over the past year, according to a study released this week by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council. More...
Monitoring Division completes customer trials of multi-impairment monitoring device
 Monitoring Division Inc. has successfully completed four customer trials of its prototype multi-impairment monitoring device, which it claims is the first sensor capable of simultaneously assessing critical optical impairments such as chromatic dispersion (CD) and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) on live network traffic. More...

New Products

VPIsystems intros all-in-one software for optical systems design
 VPIsystems says Version 8.0 of its photonic design automation software provides new modeling features, improved usability, and advances in design process and data analysis. In addition, the new all-in-one VPItransmissionMaker Optical Systems software for optical systems design addresses the convergence of optical technologies and architectures for access, aggregation, and core networks. More...
Finisar debuts 50-GHz WSS with dynamic reconfigurability
 Finisar says it's next-generation ROADM leverages Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) technology to improve reliability, increase flexibility, and lower cost for 10- and 40-Gbit/sec telecom and data-communications networks. More...
Anritsu adds Ethernet OAM software for MD1230B Data Quality Analyzer
 Anritsu has introduced Ethernet OAM software for its MD1230B Data Quality Analyzer that provides communications carriers and transmission equipment makers with a test option that can accurately evaluate Ethernet OAM equipment and networks in accordance with ITU-T Recommendation Y.1731 and IEEE801.1ag, says the company. More...

FTTx Products

ZTE unveils hybrid TDM/WDM PON prototype
 ZTE Corp. recently unveiled what it claims is the world's first Hybrid TDM/WDM-PON prototype based on all-optical wavelength conversion. More...
AOI touts new transceiver for WDM-PON
 Applied Optoelectronics Inc. this week announced a small form-factor pluggable transceiver designed for operation in colorless optical networking terminals (ONTs) used in WDM-PON networks. More...
Enablence's ONT-G888 now commercially available
 Enablence Technologies Inc. this week announced the addition of the ITU G.984 GPON standard-compliant ONT-G888 series ONTs to its TRIDENT7 product line. The product is now commercially available and shipping to customers, notes the company. More...
FibroLAN launches Falcon line NTUs
 As an NTU for carrier Ethernet services for business customers, the Falcon facilitates the delivery of multiple Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services to business customers requiring both high bandwidth and compliance with service level agreements and reduces operating expenditures, say FibroLAN representatives. More...




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