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  1. Tiny Circuits, Long Distances: Smaller Light Processing Devices For Fiber-Optic Communication 8/28/2020

    Optical signals produced by laser sources are extensively used in fiber-optic communications, which work by pulsing information packaged as light through cables, even at great distances, from a transmitter to a receiver.

  2. MetroNet Completes Construction Of 100% Fiber Optic Network In Lexington 8/25/2020

    Evansville, Ind.-based MetroNet today announced the completion of its citywide, 100% fiber-optic network in Lexington, Ky., earning Lexington, with a population of 325,000, the title of largest Gigabit City in the U.S. For the last 2.5 years, MetroNet has been hard at work laying 4.4 million feet of fiber in neighborhoods across the city.

  3. Hitron Launches Family Of 10G Fiber ONT/ONUs 8/25/2020

    Hitron Technologies, the fastest growing DOCSIS customer premise equipment (CPE) manufacturer in North America, today announced the launch of its NOVA family of 10G fiber devices.

  4. No Limit Yet For Carbon Nanotube Fibers 8/19/2020

    Carbon nanotube fibers made at Rice University are now stronger than Kevlar and are inching up on the conductivity of copper.

  5. Transition Networks Debuts PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Network Interface Card Optimized For Data Centers With Connectivity Flexibility And Virtualization Support 8/13/2020

    Transition Networks, Inc., a leading provider of IoT and edge connectivity solutions, today released its PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Network Interface Card (NIC) (N-TGE-SFP-02), a PCIe 3.0 x8 bus card supporting faster transfer speeds of up to eight Giga Transfers per second (GT/s) for servers or high-powered work stations

  6. Tripp Lite’s New Cable Management Systems Reduce Cable Clutter In Data Centers 8/11/2020

    Tripp Lite, a global manufacturer of power protection and connectivity solutions, makes it easy to reduce cable clutter in data centers, server rooms and other IT environments.

  7. Using Air To Amplify Light 8/11/2020

    “The idea had been going around my head for about 15 years, but I never had the time or the resources to do anything about it.” But now Luc Thévenaz, the head of the Fiber Optics Group in EPFL’s School of Engineering, has finally made it happen: his lab has developed a technology to amplify light inside the latest hollow-core optical fibers.

  8. L-com Launch’s New Line Of Passive Optical Fiber Taps For Monitoring And Testing Of Fiber Optic Links 8/6/2020

    L-com, a preferred manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, announced today that it has just launched a new line of passive fiber optic taps to address telecommunications, test and measurement, R&D, fiber network maintenance and optical system design applications

  9. CommScope Announces Turn-Key AgileMax Field Solution For RFoG Deployments 8/5/2020

    CommScope announced today the FDH3000 AgileMax Cabinet for RF-over-Glass (RFoG) deployments. The solution combines CommScope’s proven AgileMax active optical distribution technology which prevents Optical Beat Interference (OBI) in RFoG deployments with its FDH3000 fiber distribution hub and integrated splitter cabinet

  10. NeoPhotonics And Inphi Complete The First Successful Interoperability Demonstration Of 400ZR Over 120km 7/28/2020

    Inphi Corporation, a leader in high-speed data movement interconnects, and NeoPhotonics Corporation, a leading developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced that the companies completed the industry’s first interoperability demonstration of OIF 400ZR Implementation Agreement compliant coherent transceivers, operating successfully across the C-Band over 120km of optical fiber.