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NeoPhotonics introduced an Integrated Coherent Receiver (ICR) for 40 and 100 Gbps DWDM transmission systems that incorporates an integrated polarizing beam splitter (PBS), eliminating the need to place a PBS...

OFS introduced a new fiber for use in submarine cables engineered for long and medium haul ocean repeatered systems utilizing advanced modulation formats, e.g., RZ-DPSK, in dense wave division multiplexing...

Ciena reported revenue of $433.3 million for its Q1 of fiscal 2011, representing a 4% sequential increase from fiscal fourth quarter 2010 revenue of $417.6 million. Ciena's net loss (GAAP)...

Smartphone penetration is rising rapidly in the U.S. market, according to newly released data from the comScore MobiLens service. A total of 65.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones...

Xilinx introduced its Virtex-6 HXT FPGA Optical Transport Network (OTN) Targeted Design Platform for supporting faster market implementation of 100G line cards and demonstrating the key technology for a smooth...

Skorpios Technologies, a start-up based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has signed Nokia Siemens Networks as a strategic development partner. Skorpios Technologies has developed an advanced Composite Semiconductor on Insulator Technology...

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has shipped 1 million 10G Optical Transport Network (OTN) ports and the company believes the technology has reached an inflection point for the industry. Shipments of...

PMC-Sierra expanded its FTTH portfolio with a new line of 10G-EPON OLT devices in 40nm featuring traffic management, packet processing, on-chip redundancy and advanced optical diagnostic capabilities built-in. PMC-Sierra also...

Huawei introduced its OSN8800 T Series next-generation metro and core Optical Transport Network system for the North American market. This new transport system integrates WDM/OTN transmission, ROADM, T-bit switch, ASON/GMPLS,...

Huawei announced an Optical Burst Transport Network (OBTN) prototype. Huawei said its OBTN all-optical switching technology will enable the convergence of Layer 0 (optical layer), Layer 1 (electrical physical layer)...

Oclaro introduced its third generation 40G PM-QPSK transponder featuring an integrated modulator, receiver and the industry's first single-chip ASIC solution for enabling coherent detection. Oclaro said PM-QPSK modulation, coupled with...

Altera introduced enhanced forward error correction (EFEC) IP cores optimized for its high performance Stratix IV and Stratix V series FPGAs and specifically designed for 100G applications such as metro...

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a multi-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Optical Transport Network (OTN) mapper family (VSC8492 and VSC8494) that supports both IEEE 1588v2 and Y.1731 time stamping. This enables timing,...