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Posted on 06.04.07
BTI Photonic Systems Inc., a supplier of microWDM networking solutions, has announced it placed 5th in the 19th Annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine. Further numbers from Ottawa Business Journal: Ottawa-based BTI Photonics ranked fifth on the list of top performers with revenue growth between 2001 and 2006 of 5,607 per cent to $12.5 million, despite operating at a loss. Exports for the company represented 95 per cent of sales, and employment grew to 69 staff from 29 employees. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.04.07
This NY Times article summarizers the current projects to link East African countries to the rest of the world with undersea fiber optic cables. Drivers for the push are also discussed: At the moment, the Indian Ocean’s eastern African seabed is the only one in the world without a submarine fiber-optic cable, forcing the region to rely heavily on limited and expensive satellite links. As a result, countries along the coast and in its hinterland have some of the highest communications costs in the world. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.04.07
Optium, a US based maker of optical subsytems, had this to say regarding 40 Gbps components in their latest earnings report: Optium added to its product line with the acquisition of Kailight Photonics Inc of Nes Ziona, Israel (announced at the end of March and completed in May), whose 40Gb/s product line addresses both client-side and line-side applications. “As we connect our strong base of customers to Kailight’s leading technology, we are seeing a very positive response,” claims Gertel. “Customers have been particularly interested in our ability to offer module solutions that can be integrated into line-cards cost effectively,” he adds. “We expect to make our first 40Gb/s product shipments in our current fiscal fourth quarter.” Filed under: ROADMs and WDM Technology and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.31.07
According to Infonetics quarterly research: The down quarter was expected as SONET/SDH equipment makes up 61% of worldwide optical equipment sales and is steadily declining in share, while its replacement —bandwidth-rich, more flexible WDM equipment —continues to increase in share. More at OpticalReports.com Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.31.07
Ciena reported positive results for the quarter. More interestingly were the webcast comments of Ciena’s CEO Gary Smith: “There’s a new market appearing,” he said. “Let’s call it converged Ethernet. You’re seeing a shift toward the compression of layers, from Layer 0 to…call it Layer 2.5. We’re at the fairly early stages of that. There’s no market data around it, so we’re still measuring it in older markets, like metro optical and long-haul optical. But it’s moved on us. We’re all struggling to get our arms around this new market, the combination of switching, transport and Ethernet.” Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.17.07
Here’s some bits from Ovum-RHK Q1 ‘07 optical networking data analysis: Year over year, ON market growth topped 20 percent for $12.3 billion annualized spending "As predicted, the pause in spending in North America in the second half of 2006 ended in 1Q07, with strong spending gains in all product segments except legacy long-haul DWDM," said Dana Cooperson, vice president, Ethernet and 10-Gbit/sec transmission continued to grow strongly, as did both metro WDM and next-gen multi-reach DWDM for network backbone applications. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.16.07
Huawei Technologies and Global Marine Systems, a subsea cable installation and maintenance company, have announced they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the intent to establish a joint venture (JV) to deliver end-to-end submarine network solutions to reliably deliver global communication capabilities. Industry analysts forecast a huge year in 2007 with at least 20 new supply contracts expected to be awarded totaling nearly 100,000 route-kilometers - largely driven by two transpacific cable projects and a number of medium-sized (2,000-10,000 kilometer) systems. Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.16.07
BTI Photonic Systems has announced Telepak Networks Inc. has selected its optical networking solution. Telepak Networks, a service provider in Jackson, Mississippi, is using BTI’s microWDM solution to increase the capacity of existing fiber to deliver multiple streams of 10GbE traffic between major Telepak Network’s sites. Filed under: New WDM Deployments and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.10.07
Fujikura Limited and Nistica, an optical subsystems supplier, have announced a cooperative agreement. As part of this strategic relationship, Fujikura will provide full production manufacturing facilities and processes for Nistica’s volume delivery of Nistica’s series of tunable filters and ROADM modules, as well as future Nistica products. Filed under: ROADMs and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.04.07
Corning Incorporated has announced plans to reopen a portion of its Concord, N.C., optical fiber manufacturing facility. "The optical fiber market has witnessed volume growth of greater than 15 percent in each of the last two years," said Eric S. Musser, vice president and general manager of Corning Optical Fiber. "Over 80 percent of worldwide fiber demand now comes from the access and metro segments, and we expect to see continued market growth. The partial start-up of our Concord facility will ensure that we have adequate capacity to capture this expanding market opportunity." Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Alcatel-Lucent has signed an agreement to acquire Canadian metro WDM networking supplier Tropic Networks, Inc. According to Lightreading "The main thing it was after in acquiring Tropic was not its ROADM but rather Wavelength Tracker, the network management system that allows network operators to monitor and provision optical signals end-to-end across a mesh network." Filed under: ROADMs and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Santur Corporation, a manufacturer of widely tunable transmitters for the telecommunications industry, has announced a strategic long term supply agreement with StrataLight, a provider of 40 Gbps next-generation optical transponders and sub-systems. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.20.07
A new report by Dell’Oro Group, reveals that worldwide sales of Optical Transport equipment reached the highest level in 5 years during the fourth quarter of 2006. WDM system sales grew 42 percent year-over-year and accounted for all of the market increase. “Within WDM Metro we see increasing interest for Multi-haul systems, as their range of flexibility provides another key feature in addition to their high bandwidth capabilities,” Filed under: Uncategorized and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.08.07
Global Crossing has announced it has been awarded the contract to support Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) to consolidate and upgrade its pan-European network. Global Crossing will provide 3,000 km of dark fibre and associated colocation space connecting 36 major points of presence in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Germany, as well as wavelengths on routes that are geographically dispersed from Belgacom ICS’ network. Global Crossing will also take charge of decommissioning existing optical transmission equipment and manage the installation of Siemens’ 40-Gbps compatible Surpass 7500 optical add-drop multiplexers (OADM). Filed under: ROADMs and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.06.07
Worldwide sales of long-haul DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) products grew by more than 30 percent in 2006, to $1.8 billion, as network operators added capacity due to increasing demand for bandwidth, according to a new report from Heavy Reading. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.25.07
Lightreading reports that Chinese telecom equipment vendor ZTE has been reseeling Ciena’s Core Director optical switch for about a year now. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.16.07
This Lightwave article profiles the economic recovery of the global submarine telecom market recovery that commenced in 2006. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.09.07
Huawei Technologies has announced it has been selected by Telecom Italia to carry out Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology projects. Not much further information was given. Filed under: New WDM Deployments and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.05.06
Component and subsystem manufacturer JDSU has announced that it has shipped its 10,000 ROADM. "To put this in perspective, it represents the majority of overall ROADM deployment and the significant role ROADMs play in helping service providers build agile optical networks," said Daryl Inniss, vice president, Communications Components, for Ovum-RHK.
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Posted on 11.21.06
A new report by Dell’Oro Group states that sales of WDM equipment continued to grow in the third quarter, reaching almost $900 million, in part on especially strong European region sales that increased 40 percent year-over-year. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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