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Huawei boosts photonic integration know-how with CIP acquisition
Huawei has acquired UK photonic integration specialist, the Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP), from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition of what was once BT's fibre-optics group, gains the Chinese system vendor a wealth of optical component expertise as well as participation in several leading European Union R&D projects.
By Roy Rubenstein
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Optelian acquires Versawave for its 100G expertise
Optical transport systems vendor Optelian has acquired Versawave Technologies of Vancouver, British Columbia. Versawave develops ultra-high bandwidth gallium-arsenide optical modulators based on a patented polarization modulation technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
By Pauline Rigby
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Could all-silicon devices replace lithium niobate?
A consortium of researchers in Italy has observed second-harmonic generation in a silicon waveguide. It is an important step towards making silicon devices in the mid- and far-infrared region of the spectrum, as well as extremely fast optical modulators and switches.
By Pauline Rigby
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Newport buys ILX Lightwave for $9.3M
Photonics giant Newport Corp. says it has completed the previously announced acquisition of ILX Lightwave. Newport reported that it paid $9.3 million (€7.2 million) in cash, subject to an adjustment based on ILX's net assets at closing.
By Pauline Rigby
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Operators favour moving to 100G optical transmission
Operators prefer to deploy 100Gbps technology as they upgrade their networks. That is a main finding of a study by market research firm, Infonetics Research.
By Roy Rubenstein
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Expect 2012 to be a year of change
Industry commentators – CEOs, executives and analysts – are upbeat about telecoms' prospects in 2012 while expecting the year to be one of change. As operators continue to struggle with traffic growth, the expectation is that network configuration and management must change. More intelligence and multi-layer optimisation will be needed in the network and even application awareness.
By Roy Rubenstein
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Marvell acquires network processor start-up Xelerated
Marvell Semiconductor announced that it has completed the acquisition of Xelerated, a Swedish vendor of network processors and programmable Ethernet switching silicon.
12 January 2012
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Adtran moves for NSN's fixed broadband business
Adtran has announced that it plans to buy the fixed-line broadband access business of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).
By Roy Rubenstein
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FPGAs lead the way as chip design turns to optics
Altera has demonstrated a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype with optical interfaces. The technology demonstrator uses 12x10Gbps parallel optical interfaces from Avago Technologies.
By Roy Rubenstein
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Southern Cross picks Ciena for 40G subsea upgrade
Ciena has secured a major contract to upgrade capacity on the Southern Cross submarine cable in the South Pacific. The cable links California in the US with Australia and New Zealand stopping off at Hawaii and Fiji along the way.
By Pauline Rigby
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Tera Santa Consortium targets terabit optical networking
A project to enable one terabit transmission over an optical wavelength has been announced by a consortium of Israeli companies and universities. The Tera Santa Consortium will develop a terabit optical platform using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) .
By Roy Rubenstein
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Entering the Terabit Era: Verizon, NEC complete high-speed field trial
Verizon and NEC Corporation of America have demonstrated simultaneous transmission of 100Gbps, 450Gbps and 1Tbps optical signals over an installed fibre network. The results of the trial, which was performed last year on 3,560 kilometres (2,212 miles) of fibre of Verizon's network in the Dallas area, were outlined in a post-deadline paper at the recent OFC/NFOEC Conference in Los Angeles.
By Pauline Rigby
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Xilinx buys optical transport chip start-up Omiino
Xilinx, a company best known for its programmable logic devices, has purchased Belfast, Northern Ireland, start-up Omiino for an undisclosed amount. The start-up develops silicon intellectual property for packet-optical transport network (P-OTN) applications at speeds up to 100Gbps.
By Pauline Rigby
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Google kicks off bids for Nortel’s patent portfolio
The final piece of bankrupt telecoms equipment company Nortel has come up for sale – its vast patent portfolio. Google has entered a stalking horse sale agreement with Nortel that could see it acquire all the firm’s remaining telecoms and technology patents for $900m (€622m) in cash.
By Pauline Rigby
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Finisar plans to bring tunable lasers in-house with Ignis buy
Optical components maker Finisar has increased its stake in Norwegian firm Ignis ASA, and has put in an offer to buy the remaining shares for a cash consideration of NOK 8 (€1.02) per share. However, it’s not the only company interested in buying the firm.
By Pauline Rigby
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Start-up Kaiam claims photonic integration breakthrough
Optical start-up Kaiam made its debut by announcing Series A funding and demonstrating its first products – 40Gbps optical transmitter and receiver subassemblies for QSFP modules. The start-up says it has a novel way of aligning the individual components on a hybrid photonic integrated circuit, which delivers high manufacturing yield, high performance and low cost.
By Pauline Rigby
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Optical processors from Ciena deliver flexible modulation
The latest 100 Gigabit ASICs from Ciena support programmable modulation schemes that trade transmission speed for optical reach. The WaveLogic coherent optical processors are already shipping inside Ciena’s ActivFlex 6500 packet-optical platform and will be added to the ActivSpan 4200 advanced services platform in the coming months.
By Roy Rubenstein
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Optical components and transceiver market growth to continue in 2011
Optical transceiver sales worldwide will exceed US $3 bilion in 2011 (€2.11 billion), an increase of 10%, according to market research firm LightCounting. Growth will be slower than 2010, however, when optical transceiver sales grew 35%. Market research firm Ovum reports similar market dynamics for optical components where the global market also grew by 35% in 2010 to reach $5.6 billion.
By Roy Rubenstein
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JDSU: sales of tunable XFPs exceed 300-pin devices
Components vendor JDSU announced that shipments of its tunable XFP products exceeded those of its legacy 300-pin transponder for the first time in financial Q2 2011 (October to December 2010). This marks the beginning of a major shift in the optical transponder market as larger, legacy form factors are replaced with pluggable modules about one quarter of the size.
By Pauline Rigby.
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DT signals go for FTTH expansion
Deutsche Telekom says it will begin to expand its fibre-optic network this year. The company expects to deploy FTTH in 10 cities in 2011, with the aim of passing 160,000 homes by the end of the year. This is the first step in the operators’ plans to connect 10% of all households in Germany within five years, as announced at the end of last year.
By Pauline Rigby
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Heavy Reading: 2011 will be the year for 100G
An explosion of 100Gbps field trial activity, product announcements and commercial shipments is coming in 2011, signalling the start of serious commercial activity in 2012, according to a new report from Heavy Reading. Now is the time for suppliers to engage their customers about 100G products and roadmaps, says Sterling Perrin, senior analyst at Heavy Reading and author of the report.
By Pauline Rigby.
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Google’s optical shopping list
Over the last few years, Google has been doing the conference circuit to talk about its technological desires, to make sure the market responds to its need. And the Optical Society of America (OSA) Executive Forum, a one-day seminar that precedes OFC/NFOEC, was no exception, with Google senior network architect Bikash Koley appearing twice.
By Pauline Rigby.
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Infinera details terabit photonic chips
Infinera has given first details of its terabit coherent detection photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The transmitter and receiver PIC pair implement ten 100Gbps channels over a fibre. Infinera has also demonstrated its 5x100Gbps PICs carrying traffic on Interoute Communications’ pan-European network.
By Roy Rubenstein
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ADVA adds reach and agility to its optical platform
ADVA Optical Networking has entered the long-haul market by enhancing the wavelength provisioning and performance of its established FSP 3000 platform. Three technology components – an advanced reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM), 100 Gpbs transport and an advanced control plane - have been added to enable more flexible provisioning of high-speed DWDM lightpaths.
By Roy Rubenstein.
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