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RENCI selects Infinera for 'Breakable' N.C. research network.(CONTRACTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) has selected Infinera to support its research on the experimental network testbed dubbed BEN (Breakable Experimental Network), which links RENCI to sites at three universities in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. In addition, ...
Occam Networks signs contract with Telecarrier in Panama.(CONTRACTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Telecarrier, a telecommunications service provider in Panama, has selected Occam Networks as the principal broadband access supplier in a program designed to increase broadband services and push broadband access throughout the country. This expansion is intended to help meet the needs of ...
National LambdaRail chooses Cisco's ONS 15454 for optical network upgrade.(CONTRACTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... National LambdaRail, a consortium of US research universities and private-sector technology companies, announced that it has chosen the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM system for its strategic Internet Protocol next-generation network (IP NGN) upgrade. NLR says its nationwide optical infrastructure, ...
Optelian nabs contract award in Czech Republic.(CONTRACTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Czech-based services provider OptoNet Communication has selected Optelian's active CWDM and management system to provide services to Ceske Radiokomunikace, the second-largest telecom provider in the Czech Republic. OptoNet is using Optelian's LightGAIN RGN-3GSF CDWM system to provide STM-1 ...
Bresnan increases capacity.(CONTRACTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Harmonic Inc. announced that Bresnan Communications, a cable service provider in the United States with more than 300,000 subscribers, has increased its video-on-demand (VoD) service capacity with the addition of Harmonic's Narrowcast Service Gateway (NSG) 9000 and 9116 edgeQAMs with ...
JDSU test solutions selected by Carphone Warehouse Networks.(CONTRACTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... JDSU announced that it has entered into a contract to provide service-assurance test solutions to The Carphone Warehouse Networks (CPWN), one of the largest and most advanced telecom networks in the UK and a wholly owned division of the fixed-line and broadband business of The Carphone ...
Nortel lands Deloitte.(CONTRACTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Deloitte's global organization has chosen Nortel as a global managed services provider for telepresence, videoconferencing, and associated multimedia services. Under a new managed services agreement with Nortel, Deloitte's global organization and as many as 130 Deloitte member ...
GEANT2 gets upgrade.(NETWORKS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Researchers across Europe are now benefiting from faster collaboration, thanks to upgrades to the high bandwidth pan-European research network GEANT2. The upgrades were announced by DANTE, an international research and education network provider working alongside the National Research and ...
Verizon introduces FiOS for Business.(FTTX)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Verizon on July 10 launched FiOS TV for Business, a new subscription-television service designed for small and medium-sized businesses, delivered exclusively by Verizon's advanced all-digital, 100 percent fiber-optic network. The new offering makes the picture quality and reliability of ...
Suo Cable Net taps Alcatel-Lucent for Japanese GPON.(FTTX)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Suo Cable Net, a Japanese cable TV operator, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to design, integrate, and deploy a GPON. The new network, which will enable Suo Cable Net to begin rolling out high-speed Internet and video services in July, will be the first commercial GPON deployment in Japan, the ...
Nokia Siemens Networks announces plans to prioritize wireline broadband access R&D investments.(FTTX)
Jul 01, 2008 ... An enormous hunger for bandwidth is driving the fixed broadband access networks and will lead into a hundredfold traffic growth until 2015. This development and the operators' need for revenue growth are driving Nokia Siemens Networks' investment in fiber-based next-generation optical ...
Verizon FiOS TV offers more channels.(FTTX)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Verizon FiOS TV has launched 22 new channels, including 15 additional high-definition (HD) channels. FiOS TV customers in Oregon now have more than 440 HD choices available at any time, with a total of 42 HD channels and more than 400 HD video-on-demand (VoD) titles offered each month. ...
Ignis Photonyx receiving EU support.(FTTX)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The European Commission has through the ICT program recognized Ignis Photonyx for their next-generation WDM PON technology. Together with other leading European telecom system providers like Ericsson AB, Ignis Photonyx will lead a joint development effort for enabling more ...
FTTH group studies usage.(FTTX)
Jul 01, 2008 ... According to a new report from the FTTH Council Europe, improvements in broadband connectivity speeds are having a direct impact on consumer bandwidth usage, with demand per broadband home growing at almost 20 percent per annum over the last five years. The research, undertaken with ...
BT links to Scottish Isles.(SUBMARINE CABLES)
Jul 01, 2008 ... BT is laying a new fiber-optic submarine cable between Orkney and the Scottish mainland to help bring its 21st Century Network to the Northern Isles. The 70km cable will run from Skaill Bay in Orkney under the Pentland Firth to Dunnet Bay, around five miles east of Thurso. BT ...
Japan-Russia cable lit.(SUBMARINE CABLES)
Jul 01, 2008 ... TransTeleCom Company CJSC (TTK), a Russian telecommunications backbone operator, and NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced that the Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS)--which directly links the two companies' telecom networks via an undersea cable between Nevelsk, Sakhalin, ...
Keyed LC System ensures network physical-layer security.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Panduit Keyed LC Fiber Optic System is designed to facilitate secure, modular, end-to-end keyed connectivity for all LC cabling and interconnect elements in the enterprise--from the main equipment room to the desk. The system comprises keyed LC versions of Panduit OPTI-CORE ...
BTI Systems debuts Intelligent Ethernet Access portfolio.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... BTI Systems has introduced its Intelligent Ethernet Access portfolio--the BTI 700 Series. This new product portfolio is designed to tightly integrate with the company's Packet Optical Edge platform, the BTI 7000 Series, to provide customers with end-to-end Carrier Ethernet technology, ...
CyOptics introduces 10G TOSAs with a wide operating temperature range.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CyOptics' new 10Gbps Miniature Device (XMD) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) TOSAs, 1625L3 for 40km and 1626L3 for 80km applications, are available for an extended operating temperature range of -40 to +90 degrees C, while the 10Gbps TOSAs with integrated driver IC, 1635L7 (40km) and 1636L7 ...