Migration to GPON: Practical considerations from the central office to the outside plant
Posted: August 26, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: APC, BPON, CO to OSP, Connectivity Solutions Group, fiber optics, fiber products, fiber-optic networks, fibre optic, ftth council, GPON, Migration-ready PONs, OLT, OmniReach, OSP 1 Comment(By Patrick J. Sims and Pat Thompson, ADC)
Practical considerations—based on informed decision-making—provide the foundation for a cost-effective transition between legacy and future access technologies.
Service providers need not look too far in the past to find examples of networks built without consideration for future technologies. While our telecommunications forefathers may not have predicted today’s broadband revolution as they designed the copper telephone network, this legacy infrastructure still enabled a rough deployment of xDSL technologies.
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Optical transport grows sharply in 2Q – 2008
Posted: August 21, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Dell Oro, DellOro, fiber optics, Huawei, Nortel Leave a comment(courtesy of Lightwave – Pennwell)
According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide optical transport equipment market grew to a new quarter high of $3.5 billion. The top vendors in the quarter were Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, and Nortel, which garnered nearly 50 percent of the market share.
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Just wanted to introduce myself
Posted: August 21, 2008 Filed under: surpluseq | Tags: fiber optics, GPON, new blogger 3 CommentsHi all
My name is Travis and I’m one of the new fiber optic bloggers here at Fiber Optic Community. I haven’t really been working with fiber optics long but I really enjoy it. I’m usually in constant contact with the industry leaders and working on the distribution at the office. I do the catalogs for our company and I’m quick at finding an item.
I will be trying to help out here if you have any questions on categories for fiber optics. When I finish with the current catalog, I will be adding tutorials for you.
Thanks for visiting! – Travis user – zgermanz
Fibre Splicing
Posted: August 19, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: cleaver, fiber optic, fibre splicer, Fujikura, fusion splicer 1 CommentHe’s using an old cleaver with a newer fusion splicer.
2008 FTTH Conference & Expo
Posted: August 16, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, EMBARQ Logistics, EXFO, fiber optics, ftth council, Furukawa America, Lightwave Magazine, NEC Corporation of America, Nortel, Pannaway Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, Taikan Company Inc., Tyco Electronics, Vermeer Corporation & HammerHead, Windstream Supply Leave a comment
September 22 – 24, 2008 is going to be full of action when the 2008 FTTH Conference & Expo comes to Nashville, TN. Come by and visit if you live close or are around for business. There are going to be lots to do there. Many fiber optic companies will be attending this year. We put together a small list of just some of the companies that will be attending this year.
We will be attending. We’re at Booth 317 this year. Come say hi and register your company with us. It’s about time you did some networking. Learn about our new products and see some live demos on many of the products we carry in stock. This year we will have a tech on hand that can answer your fusion splicer questions, 2 sales members, our spokesmodel and one of our buyers. We’re friendly people so drop by and tell us about your company and learn more about ours. We would love to hear from you.
Other companies you will see at the 2008 FTTH Conference this year –
Alcatel – Lucent
EMBARQ Logistics
eFiberTools.com
EXFO
FTTH Council
Furukawa America
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc
our friends at Lightwave Magazine
NEC Corporation of America
Nortel
Pannaway Technologies
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave
Taikan Company Inc.
Tyco Electronics
Verizon Enhanced Communities
Vermeer Corporation & HammerHead
Windstream Supply
and many others.
Will you or your company be attending? Tell us and we will post you on our blog!
Freescale intros new SoC to spur GPON adoption
Posted: August 16, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news, semiconductors | Tags: fiber optics, Freescale, Freescale Semiconductor, FTTX, GMII, GPON, IDC, MII, MSC7104, OpenCon, Power Architecture, PowerQUICC II Pro, RGMII, Semiconductor Team Leave a comment(courtesy of Lightwave – Pennwell)
Freescale Semiconductor, developer of GPON silicon, today introduced what it claims is a cost-effective, highly integrated system on a chip (SoC) designed to help lower costs for carriers and spur adoption of GPON equipment in markets worldwide.
Built on third generation Freescale PON technology, the MSC7104 is a cost reduced version of the company’s MSC7120 device, which Read the rest of this entry »
Fiber to the Telecommunications Enclosure
Posted: August 9, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: Fiber-to-the-Telecommunications-Enclosure, FTTE, telecommunications enclosure, TIA/EIA-568-B.1, TIA/EIA-569-B 1 CommentFrom Wikipedia –
Now we don’t usually quote anything from Wikipedia, but are you a little interested in FTTE? This is what they have to say about it.
Fiber-to-the-Telecommunications-Enclosure (FTTE) is a standards-compliant structured cabling system architecture that extends the optical fiber backbone network from the equipment room, through the telecom room, and directly to a telecommunications enclosure (TE) installed in a common space to serve a number Read the rest of this entry »
US Conec unveils singlemode, thermoplastic MT ferrules
Posted: August 8, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: ferrules, fiber optic, fiber optics, FTTH, FTTX, IBC brands, MTP Brand, MTP Brand MPO, OptiPop, polyphenylene sulphide, PPS, singlemode PPS MT ferrules, thermoplastic MT ferrules, US Conec Leave a comment(courtesy of Lightwave – Pennwell)
US Conec Ltd. has announced the immediate availability of singlemode-capable thermoplastic MT ferrules.
According to the company, the extremely low hygroscopic properties of its glass filled, polyphenylene sulphide (PPS) MT ferrules offer an environmentally superior singlemode MT, which can be produced with large volume injection molding. The highly stable PPS material enables the preparation of fiber tip protrusion with both reduced polishing time and force, resulting in improved endface geometry control. Singlemode PPS MT ferrules are available in high volume, are compatible with MTP Brand MPO connector components, and are fully compliant with IEC 61754-7, says the company.
US Conec Ltd. manufactures singlemode and multimode MT style and contract multifiber ferrules, the MTP Brand MPO connector family, concours optical flexible circuits and fanouts, and contract precision molded parts for optical packaging. The company also sells OptiPop and IBC brands novel dry cloth connector cleaning products.
Qwest touts FTTX Internet milestone
Posted: August 8, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: FTTH, FTTX, FTTX internet, Qwest, Qwest Communications 3 Comments(courtesy of Lightwave – Pennwell)
Qwest Communications International Inc. has announced that it can now offer its FTTX-based Internet services — with connection speeds of up to 20 Mbits/sec – to more than 1 million potential customers in 18 markets.
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LightPath Technologies completes $2.9 million financing
Posted: August 4, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: CDGM, fiber optic, fiber optics, lightpath, LightPath Technologies, optical products 1 Comment(courtesy Lightwave – Pennwell)
AUGUST 4, 2008 – LightPath Technologies Inc. , a manufacturer of precision optical products, announced that it has raised gross proceeds of approximately $2,929,000 through the sale of 8% convertible debentures to a group of institutional and private investors. LightPath says it will use the funds as working capital.
Jim Gaynor, president and CEO, said, “We are pleased that in this difficult financial environment we were able to complete our offering. The proceeds will help us continue to fuel our marketing efforts and increase our growth in China. We will be announcing our interim financial results for the fourth quarter in August and final results are planned for the second half of September. We anticipate that those results will reflect continued progress on our expanding revenue base and sustained reductions in our fixed overhead structure as well as our variable costs.”
Bob Ripp, chairman, commented, “As a sign of confidence five directors of the board as well as two of LightPath’s senior executives have invested in this financing. This represented 12% of the total amount raised. LightPath has the cost structure in place to pursue its new business model, and with the Read the rest of this entry »
LG-Nortel acquires Novera Optics
Posted: August 4, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: FTTX, FTTx networks, Korea Telecom, LG Electronics, LG-Nortel, Nortel aquires Novera, Novera Optics Leave a comment(courtesy Lightwave – Pennwell)
AUGUST 04, 2008 – LG-Nortel says it has closed the acquisition of Novera Optics Inc., a developer of fiber-optic access technology known most prominently for its work in WDM PON. LG-Nortel is a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel.
The acquisition costs, including employee retention and transaction costs, were approximately $16 million in cash, plus up to an additional $10 million to Novera security holders based on achievement of future business milestones over the next 18 months.
Novera has supplied its WDM PON technology to KT Corp. ADC’s PONy Express WDM PON offering is also based on Novera’s technology.
“Novera’s goal has always been to develop technologies that make it easier for carriers to deliver Ethernet-class FTTx services to their customers,” said John Barton, president and chief executive officer of Novera. “Our technology is a natural complement to Nortel’s and LG-Nortel’s Carrier Ethernet solutions. Nortel’s strong technology base and extensive distribution channels will ensure that service providers around the world can use our WDM-PON technology to more easily deliver high-speed FTTx services to their own customers.”
“We are always looking for new ways to help our carrier customers deliver innovative new services to customers,” said Jae Ryung Lee, chief executive officer of LG-Nortel. “Novera’s technology will be indispensable for our carrier customers because it will simplify delivery of carrier-class Ethernet FTTx services to their own customers.”
How our posts make it on this blog
Posted: August 2, 2008 Filed under: surpluseq | Tags: buy fibre splicer, buy fusion splicer, fiber optic news, fiber optics, fiber splicer software, fiber splicing, fuber splicer, fusion splicer, fusion splicer manual Leave a commentWe really take a lot of pride in finding relavent and informational fiber optic and semiconductor news to post about here. We try to make sure all pictures are clear and if not, we enhance them or remake them if needed. We don’t just have a script that cuts and pastes information into our blog every day. Checking for spelling errors and actually writing some of our own posts. Posts that are courtesy of another company, we read first to see if information is relevant and going to be interesting to our readers. If not, we just don’t post it here.
Why we take the time to post
It really is all about the audience. We know you all our using your own precious time to come and read what we post here. Let’s make it fun and worth the visit! What a pain it is to go to a blog and see it was last updated 2 years ago and many of the posts were just generated by a feed from any source that had the tag “fiber optics” in it. It’s not only annoying but we all have more productive things we could be doing.
Glad you come by to read :)
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Green is PON’s color
Posted: August 2, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: ADSL2, Broadlight, carbon footprint, E-FTTH, energy consumption, energy saving, environmental impact, EPON, GPON, how to be green, VDSL2 3 Comments(courtesy of Dan Parsons of BroadLight – images enhanced by SurplusEQ)
In the past 15 years, the telecommunication industry has been intensely focused on supplying more bandwidth to satisfy the ever-increasing consumer demand for high-speed internet, IPTV, gaming, and whatever other service that can be delivered satisfactorily over the network. The fallout has been a drastic increase in the power consumed at the central office (CO), along with a similarly drastic increase in the costs of supplying that power, both in terms of dollars and ultimately the far-reaching effects on the environment.
How much impact does the telecommunication industry’s drive for higher access speeds have on the planet? Is there a technology that can slow the trend of higher power for higher speeds?
Erlang To Always On
As has been thoroughly discussed elsewhere, the public switched telephone network (PSTN) was not originally engineered for Internet traffic. The PSTN capacity was based on a voice traffic density probability model as defined by the Erlang. In essence, for cost optimization, the telephone network was Read the rest of this entry »
What is FTTH or FTTP?
Posted: August 1, 2008 Filed under: fiber optic news | Tags: ADSL, CATV, fiber optic, fiber optics, fttp description, PSTN, what is fttp Leave a comment(courtesy of FTTH World)
It stands for:
Fiber To The Home or Fiber To The Premises (offices, high rises). FTTH refers to a broadband telecommunications system based on fiber optic cables and associated optical electronics for delivery of multiple advanced services such as triple play of telephone, broadband internet and television to homes and businesses. This new communication medium will be provided by optical fiber systems to residential communities and commercial developments by partnering with developers and/or constructors.
Today, only 6 million users are connected worldwide which is an increase of 140% since 2004. We have made the assumption that the replacement of current substitute occurs at the same pace that Broadband (ADSL) replaced dial-up (conventional telephone connection), if not faster, full replacement would be expected to be completed by 2013.
How it works?
In a FTTH system, the equipment at the head end or Center Office is interfaced into the public switched telephone network (PSTN) using DS-1s and is connected to ATM or Ethernet interfaces. Video services enter the system from the cable television (CATV) head end of from the satellite feed.
Surplus High-Tech Equipment 