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The Day Ahead: ONI, Sonus IPOs Could Be Hits
News Fibre optic networking company ONI raised is set to price 8 million shares in a price range of $21 to $23 (£14 to £15.5). ONI makes equipment, operating software and protocols to help roll out optic networks.
[May 23, 2000, 12:14]
The Day Ahead: Lucent Ups Fibre Optic Ante
News Lucent Technologies entered the fibre optic game with its $4.5bn acquisition of privately held Chromatis Networks, which makes metro optical networking systems. Here's the fibre optic scorecard. If you had to pick the current fibre optic leader...
[June 1, 2000, 12:14]
Critics Carp At Cisco; Chambers Shrugs
News The deals represent one of Cisco's most aggressive moves yet into the hot market for optical networking, which uses fibre-optic cables to transmit data, voice and video across phone and data networks.
[August 27, 1999, 8:47]
Laser Startup Garners $50m In Funding
News AirFiber is one of a handful of companies developing "free space" optical hardware, which transmits information over fibre-optic lasers in the open air. Without the need to dig up streets to lay fibre-optic wires, carrier customers are expected to...
[April 5, 2001, 14:09]
IBM Turns Up The Transistor Heat
News The first chips to use the new technology will likely be networking chips that help guide data on and off of high-speed fibre-optic lines. Now, with this technology, [Applied Micro Circuits] can continue to use silicon for the highest-performing...
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
Cisco Adopts ISCSI To Aid SAN Growth
News The usual method of ferrying the information is over fibre-optic connections that are much more costly to build or lease. This specification allows data travelling on fibre-optic cables to hop onto the Internet if need be.
[April 14, 2003, 16:03]
The Day Ahead: New Focus Eyes Strong IPO
News Research firm Ryan, Hankin & Kent estimates that the market for fiber optic components will top $22.5bn by 2003, up from $6.6bn in 1999. We compete with these companies with respect to the development, marketing and sale of fiber optic components...
[May 16, 2000, 12:37]
Supercomm Diversifies As Telcos Suffer
News Last Thursday, BellSouth, SBC and Verizon said they've agreed to use the same framework of fibre-optic hardware and software, and do much of the legwork together, as they expand their networks. Another economic salve to be suggested at Supercomm...
[June 3, 2003, 12:26]
Fiber Optic Test Issues - What To Measure And Why?
White Papers Fiber optic networking applications, such as Gigabit Ethernet, the emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Storage Area Networks (SANs) are focusing much of the industryÂ’s attention on the need to properly evaluate fiber optic installations.
[June 25, 2007, 0:00]
The Day Ahead: Ciena, Sycamore Stoke Fibre Optic Love Affair
News Not to be outdone by Ciena, Sycamore Networks, which also makes fibre optic networking gear, checked in with third quarter earnings of a nickel a share, excluding charges. That's why investors are jumping all over new fibre optic companies such as...
[May 19, 2000, 11:25]
Fiberdyne Labs Enhances Sales Effectiveness And Expands Sales Force With Siebel CRM OnDemand
White Papers Fiberdyne Labs, Inc.manufactures and markets fiber optic and laser networking products used by cable television companies, telecommunications providers, and utility companies, as well as in corporate business environments.
[December 9, 2004, 23:00]
Digital Signal Processing Solutions In Optical Networking
White Papers Optical networking applications discussed include fiber-optic control loops for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and MEMS-based optical switches. This white paper introduces Texas Instruments (TI) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions for optical...
[October 29, 2007, 23:00]
TelCove's Sweet Deal With Hershey Foods
White Papers TelCove's full suite of high-end telecommunications services, including Data Networking Services, Internet, and Voice, when transported across its own secure fiber optic network, provided the value and flexibility to meet Hershey Foods' needs.
[October 31, 2004, 0:00]
Ciena Selects Marimba's Castanet As A Vehicle For Efficient Delivery Of Customer Care, Fiberoptic Tool Set
White Papers CIENA wanted to leverage the delivery system used to provide their fiber-optic diagnostic tools, called SmartTools to field service staff when they do not have direct access to the corporate intranet.
[June 8, 2005, 0:00]
Silicon Photonics: New Opportunities For Silicon
White Papers Future photonics technology evolution promises high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic Internet communications for use in next-generation applications in education, medicine, entertainment, and commerce.
[July 8, 2004, 0:00]
Trendmaster Pro Wireless System Provides Big ROI For Large US Industrial Customer
White Papers Since the customer has an Ethernet network, several architectures were considered for this application, including CAT-5, fiber-optic, and wireless. The best choice in terms of both cost and ease of installation turned out to be standard Cisco...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Tropos Networks Signs Sumitomo Densetsu As Distributor In Japan
White Papers Sumitomo Densetsu's main business is construction and installing electrical systems, information networks, communications systems (mobile communications, radio train control, fiber optic cabling) and broadcasting systems (antennas, CATV) for...
[October 25, 2005, 0:00]
Creating An Arkansas Research And Education Optical Network
White Papers The purpose of this white paper is to introduce the reader to AREON - Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network - a new education and research fiber optic network that will span the state of Arkansas and join with surrounding states to form...
[September 1, 2005, 0:00]
'Opto-chip' Could Revolutionise Telecommunications
News While networking companies have been pushing the levels of data that can be sent over fibre optic cables, this switching problem has prevented them from having a tangible impact. These so-called optical chips are in fact polymeric electro-optic...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
Peregrine Optical Chips Ready To Fly
News The new chip will translate light pulses received via a fibre-optic cable into electrical data or vice versa. A follow-on optical networking chip, due in 2002, will boast 10-gigabit speeds. The communications chipmaker will announce next week plans...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
