INDUSTRY NEWS

• Swedish FMV Selects iXblue's Quadrans Navigation System To Equip Its Fleet Of High Speed Crafts

  The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) has recently signed a contract with navigation company iXblue for up to 172 FOG based Quadrans gyrocompasses

• Slice Wireless Solutions Selects FiberLight Network To Deliver Enhanced Airport WiFi Capabilities

  FiberLight, LLC, a fiber infrastructure provider with more than 20 years of construction experience building mission-critical, high-bandwidth networks, announces its network has been chosen by Slice Wireless Solutions to deliver public WiFi and Distributed Antenna System (DAS) wireless capabilities for the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI Marshall)

• Tessy Plastics Expands Relationship With FirstLight

  FirstLight, a leading provider of fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud computing, unified communications, advanced technologies and construction services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast, announced today that it has been selected by Tessy Plastics, a New York-based contract manufacturer, to provide a dark fiber solution to connect their recently-expanded Auburn, New York facility

• Ultraviolet Laser Induces Color Centers In Ytterbium-Doped Silica Glasses

  Ytterbium-doped silica fiber (YDF) has important applications in material processing and scientific research. The photodarkening (PD) effect, which originates from the formation of color centers, can decrease the laser output power over 1,000 h by about 10% and will seriously restrict the power stability of the fiber laser.

• Asia Direct Cable Consortium To Build New Asia Pacific Submarine Cable

  NEC Corporation today announced that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Consortium is building a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam