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1. NEC Completes ‘ATISA’ Submarine Cable
   6/22/2017

   NEC Corporation announced recently that the 280 kilometer ATISA submarine fiber optic cable system connecting Guam to the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) is complete and operational

2. nbn Selects Coriant CloudWave Optics To Cost-Efficiently Scale Nationwide Backbone Network
   6/20/2017

   Coriant, a leading supplier of packet optical, IP, and SDN solutions to Tier 1 global service providers and web-scale Internet operators, recently announced that nbn, the company building and operating Australia’s national broadband network, has selected the Coriant CloudWave Optics solution to cost-efficiently scale its existing nationwide optical transport backbone network in response to growing demand for broadband network capacity

3. Applied Optoelectronics Announces 1.4 Million 25 Gbps Lasers Produced
   6/19/2017

   Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI), a leading provider of fiber-optic access network products for the internet datacenter, cable broadband, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and telecom markets, today announced it has produced over 1.4 million 25 Gbps Distributed Feedback (DFB) laser diodes, since first shipping the products in late 2015

4. Parker Aerospace And Oxsensis Sign An Exclusive Aero Engine Agreement For Advanced Sensor Technology
   6/19/2017

   Parker Aerospace, a business segment of Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global leader in motion and control technologies, and Oxsensis Ltd. are developing harsh environment instrumentation including static and dynamic pressure and temperature sensors for aerospace engine applications, based on innovative fiber optic sensor technologies

5. Bodkin Design Builds Custom Microscope For FiberQA Fiber Optic Inspection System
   6/13/2017

   Bodkin Design & Engineering has custom-engineered an optical inspection camera for FiberQA, including design, prototype, and manufacturing of pre-production units. BD&E’s camera sub-assembly is part of a larger system that includes automated functions for translation, inspection, and cleaning of ganged fiber optic connectors

6. COTSWORKS® Named New Distributor And Value-Added Reseller Of GORE® Aerospace Fiber Optic Cables For Civil And Military Aircraft Applications
   6/13/2017

   W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) is pleased to announce that COTSWORKS® has been recently named an authorized distributor and value-added reseller of GORE® Aerospace Fiber Optic Cables for civil and military aircraft applications in Europe and North America

7. High-Speed Fiber Networks Explode Throughout Arizona, Five More K-12 School Districts Select WANRack To Build Private Fiber WANs
   6/12/2017

   Five more Arizona school districts have selected WANRack to build district-wide private fiber optic Wide Area Networks (WANs), extending the company’s dominance as a private network supplier to schools in Arizona and nationwide

8. Mussels Add Muscle To Biocompatible Fibers
   6/9/2017

   Rice University chemists can thank the mussel for putting the muscle into their new macroscale scaffold fibers.

9. ViaWest Data Center In Hillsboro, Ore. To Offer High Speed, Low Latency, Direct Network Connection To Asia
   6/5/2017

   ViaWest announced that later this year it will begin offering access to the New Cross Pacific subsea cable, the fastest low-latency, fiber-optic cable between the United States and Asia

10. Micron Optics' Fabry-Perot Accelerometer Ushers In A New Era Of Optical Sensing
    6/5/2017

    Micron Optics, Inc., the leading provider of innovative equipment for fiber optic sensing equipment, today announces the launch of the os7510 and os7520 Fabry-Perot Accelerometers