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Acacia Drives Coherent Technology to Edge and Access Networks with New Pluggable Portfolio

By Optical Connections News Team

For network operators offering 5G, cable, and enterprise services, Acacia recently announced it is sampling new coherent pluggable solutions specifically designed for optimization in edge and access applications. Offered in a QSFP-DD form factor widely used for client-optics, Acacia’s new 100G coherent point-to-point (P2P) edge and access solutions were designed to provide network operators the […]

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CommScope Partners with AltNets to accelerate FTTx Planning

By Optical Connections News Team

CommScope discusses how critical tools can support AltNets plan and develop networks more efficiently, to deliver faster time-to-market. As the world’s fifth-largest economy, Britain ranks 35th out of the 37 OECD countries for the proportion of fibre in its total fixed broadband infrastructure. The nation’s key incumbent providers have worked closely with the government to […]

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Tektronix Introduces the 8 Series Sampling Oscilloscope Platform with Support for 56GBd and 28GBd Applications

By Optical Connections News Team

Tektronix has recently announced the new 8 Series sampling platform, a disaggregated modular instrument series boasting parallel acquisition, with up to 4 channels per mainframe and the highest measurement accuracy for PAM4 optical signals on multiple inputs simultaneously. The 8 Series consists of the TSO820 Sampling Oscilloscope Mainframe, optical sampling modules, and TSOVu, a new […]

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Suncall’s New MPO Products Provide Versatility and Safety

By Optical Connections News Team

Suncall America’s New MPO Multi-Function Connector makes installations simpler, and the Internal Shutter Adapters provide extra protection and safety for front-of-rack usage. The new MPO Multi-Function Connector offers the ultimate versatility and was designed to simplify field installations. It offers an easy push-pull operation with a reinforced boot for insertion and extraction. Polarity change and […]

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Nextrom Helium Recovery System (NHR)

By Optical Connections News Team

Cost saving during the production When manufacturing optical fibers for telecommunications use, the critical factors for success are draw speed, yield, the quality of the fiber, and its optical characteristics. Telecoms optical fibers are usually produced in large quantities and as efficiently as possible. Nextrom has developed a system for fiber draw, where the helium […]

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OOK and DPSK modulation formats evaluation for high data rate laser communication in space

By Optical Connections News Team

iXblue with its partners Airbus D&S and CILAS recently built an engineering bread board (EBB) model of a laser communication system dedicated to high data rate transmission in space. The aimed application was focused on feeder links between low earth orbital (LEO) satellites and ground stations. The goal was to carry out a full evaluation […]

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No data traffic without Axetris microlenses

By Optical Connections News Team

Axetris has been providing microlenses to the communication industry for more than 15 years. Microlenses are omnipresent in telecom and datacom solutions such as wavelength selective switches (WSS), optical transceivers for data centers and long-haul coherent communications components. It all started with Passive Optical Network (PON) components for the megabit telecommunication era. Today, Axetris contributes […]

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CommScope’s FIST™MSC – all-in-one fibre splice closure

By Optical Connections News Team

A significant challenge that network operators face is the ability to respond quickly to new market conditions – they need speed to market when rolling out new equipment and services. Controlling labour and training costs are necessary for efficient deployment. It can be difficult to ensure that the right people with the right training are […]

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Keysight Engineering Education for Data Center Infrastructure

By Optical Connections News Team

Data center infrastructure constantly evolves. Emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, virtual reality (VR), IoT, and autonomous vehicles generate explosive amounts of data in the network and create new computing and performance demands in the data center. We offer the widest array of data center test solutions across all network layers, from physical Layer 1 […]

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Three Key Trends in Data Center Interconnects

By Optical Connections News Team

Download the Data Center Interconnect White Paper Series to learn about emerging technologies that are reshaping data center networks worldwide: Data Center Interconnects Reach 400G Speeds – New Standards Adopt Coherent Optical Technology for DCIs Integrated Photonics Revolutionize Data Center Interconnects Coherent Optical Transforms Data Center Interconnects – Integrated Photonics and New Standards Drive Next-generation […]

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Manage your high-density fiber network with FACT™

By Optical Connections News Team

Significantly enhance your speed of installation with plug-and-play philosophy Network’s speed and bandwidth demands are ever-evolving in today’s always connected world. Versatility in central offices and data centers to expand, reconfigure, and roll out new network services to consumers, is a must for today and to support their network requirements for years to come. FACT™ […]

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HellermannTyton’s End to End Fibre Network Solutions

By Peter Dykes

HellermannTyton provides a complete end to end range of Fibre to the X (FTTX) solutions, delivering flexible fibre connectivity across every stage of the last mile network. The comprehensive range of street cabinets, fibre splice closures, MDU enclosures, customer connection points and wall outlets, delivering fibre to the home in both underground or over-ground (aerial) […]

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Fire Clips for Fibre Optic Cables

By Optical Connections News Team

Getting to grips with the 18th Edition Wiring Regulations: new Firefly clip range from SWA offers ideal solution for fibre optic cabling. SWA’s ingenious Firefly Push Grip Clips are fast proving popular as the perfect solution for compliance with new BS7671 regulations prohibiting the use of plastic clips or glues in fibre optic cable installations. […]

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New multiplexers and de-multiplexers from NeoPhotonics

By Peter Dykes

NeoPhotonics Corporation has announced the introduction and initial shipments of new Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) multiplexers and de-multiplexers for high capacity, high baud rate, coherent transmission systems. The new AWGs are based on NeoPhotonics high volume, high reliability Planar Lightwave Circuit platform and offer channel spacings from 75 GHz to 150 GHz and channel counts […]

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ECOC 2019: QSFP-DD Pluggable Module Connector and Cage Assembly

By Optical Connections News Team

400G capable high-speed connector system for Data Networking market Yamaichi Electronics has expanded its high-speed connector product portfolio with a new small form factor connector for 400 Gigabit data networking applications and cage assembly mechanical parts. QSFP-DD is one of the new small form factors. It was standardised by QSFP-DD MSA. Yamaichi Electronics is one […]

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Overcoming 400G measurement challenges

By Dean Miles

The rapid worldwide growth in cloud computing is driving massive demand for high-performance datacenter infrastructure. To keep pace with this relentless demand, developers are transitioning to 400G technologies enabling smaller, faster, lower cost-per-bit solutions. There are several core technologies that are enabling 400G, including the use of higher order modulation and higher data rates up […]

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Faster Networking Speeds Require Faster Memory

By Optical Connections News Team

Data centers need 400GE speed and faster memory to support 5G applications. DDR5 promises data rates up to 6.0 GT/s, effectively doubling the data rate of DDR4. DDR5 reduces footprint and improves power efficiency, but these improvements introduce new design and test challenges for chip designers and device manufacturers. Keysight’s white paper, DDR5 – Full Speed […]

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Ten Things You Need to Know About Data Center Innovation

By Optical Connections News Team

The demand for data is exploding, and data center operators are bombarded daily with new information about emerging technologies. Keysight’s new poster, Ten Things You Need to Know About Data Center Innovation, is the calm in the storm, putting the essential information you need today front and center. Need to make decisions about 400GE and […]

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Get on the Fast Track to PCIe 5.0

By Optical Connections News Team

Data center operators must embrace next-generation technologies to support the response times and bandwidth requirements of 5G and IoT. 400GE requires faster memory and faster serial bus communications. PCIe 5.0 is on track for release in 2019. Are you ready? Get Keysight’s white paper, The Fast Track to PCIe 5.0 Doubling the Throughput of PCIe […]

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5th Generation Computing Standards

By Optical Connections News Team

Data centers must reach 400GE speeds to support emerging technologies such as 5G and IoT. Faster networking speeds require faster memory and serial bus communications. Designing at these faster speeds requires full compliance testing to the latest standards. Download Keysight’s white paper, Evolution of High-speed Computing Interfaces: Paving the Way for 400GE in the Data […]