Newsletter – 5 Sept

Technologies and Products

CST Global’s XG-PON 1270nm 2.5G Lasers show ‘outstanding’ eye diagram performance up to 85°C.

By Peter Dykes

Scotland-based CST Global has announced that samples of its UK-manufactured 1270nm 2.5Gb/s lasers have shown ‘outstanding’ Eye Diagram performance, with Eye Mask Margins of 34% and Extinction Ratios up to 9.3dB. The lasers significantly performed over and above XG-PON, ITU-G.987 specification requirements at temperatures up to 85°C and have exceeded 2000 hours in accelerated life […]

Technologies and Products

Deutsche Glasfaser taps Emtelle for €63 million FTTH rollout

By Peter Dykes

Emtelle has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Deutsche Glasfaser, a leading FTTH provider in Germany, for the supply of a range of tube bundles and fibre cables in a contract worth €63 million. Combining two market leaders in FTTH deployment and solution manufacture, the long-term agreement secures the supply of Emtelle’s […]

Technologies and Products

Finisar introduces L-band high-res optical spectrum analyser for R&D and manufacturing applications

By Peter Dykes

Finisar has introduced its WaveAnalyser™ 1500S/L High Resolution Optical Spectrum Analyser designed to inspect the spectral characteristics of optical channels in the L-band of the telecommunications spectrum. This instrument has been developed for researchers and engineers focused on optical communication systems operating in the L-band as well as for manufacturing test applications on the production […]

Technologies and Products

ECOC 2019: Anritsu to demonstrate 116-Gbps PAM4 error detector

By Peter Dykes

Test equipment manufacturer Anritsu, will demonstrate its new PAM4 Error Detector module for its Signal Quality Analyser-R MP1900A Series PAM4 BERT on booth #28, at the ECOC Exhibition 2019 in Dublin, Ireland, from September 23 to 25 September 2019. With what the company claims is the world’s highest operation bit rate and Rx sensitivity, this […]

Technologies and Products

HUBER+SUHNER unveils world’s first copperless link to the antenna

By Peter Dykes

HUBER+SUHNER has launched a Direct GPS-over-Fibre (GPSoF) solution which it claims is the first of its kind to facilitate a fibre optic connection to be made directly onto an antenna, eliminating the need for a separate power line. This new capability, the company says, has the potential to revolutionise the remote antenna application landscape by […]

Applications and Research

Open Eye Consortium announces single-mode spec for datacentre applications

By Peter Dykes

At this year’s CIOE 2019, the Open Eye Consortium (Open Eye MSA) announced the availability of its 53 Gbps single-mode specification to its members, which defines the requirements for fully analogue PAM-4 solutions for 50G SFP, 100G DSFP, 100G SFP-DD, 200G QSFP, and 400G QSFP-DD and OSFP single-mode modules. The Open Eye MSA aims to […]

News and Business

Lumentum announces Penny Herscher as new board chair

By Peter Dykes

Lumentum Holdings has announced the appointment of Penny Herscher as chair of its board of directors. Ms. Herscher is a seasoned technology public company board director, executive and entrepreneur, with more than 15 years of experience as a high-tech CEO in Silicon Valley and more than 10 years of experience serving on public company boards […]

Technologies and Products

AFL receives CPR Certification for fibre optic cables

By Peter Dykes

Fibre cable and accessories manufacturer AFL, an international manufacturer of fibre optic cable, connectivity and accessories, received its Construction Products Regulation (CPR) certification for certain fibre optic cables including Sub-unitised MicroCore® 2.0 and MicroCore 3.0 plus its Ruggedised MicroCore product line. CPR, often recognised as “CE marked,” defines minimum cable fire safety standard (EuroClasses) based […]

Technologies and Products

VolkerWessels Telecom taps Emtelle for fibre optic solutions

By Peter Dykes

Scotland-based global manufacturer of blown fibre, cabling, ducted & pre-connectorised fibre solutions Emtelle, has been selected by VolkerWessels Telecom as key supplier of a range of fibre optic solutions and components for the rollout of a fibre optic network in The Hague. Earlier this year, a collaboration was formed between VolkerWessels Telecom, T-Mobile and Primevest […]

Technologies and Products

Leading US utility taps ADTRAN for improved grid reliability

By Peter Dykes

ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking and subscriber experience solutions, has announced that its Total Access 5000 (TA 5000) platform has been deployed to improve the reliability and resiliency of a leading regional utility’s high-density Smart Grid power grid distribution network. A first deployment of its kind, the utility is leveraging the TA 5000 […]

Guest Blog

Empowering a wireless world with fiber optics

By Ray Hagen

If you have followed ProLabs social media feeds over the past year, you know that we’ve been present at many service providers conferences around the world. We’ve attended and contributed to SCTE Cable-Tec EXPO, NGON, Fiber Connect, and FTTH Europe to name a few. We’ve witnessed the fiber optic world first-hand and it is in […]

Technologies and Products

WorldStream partners with Arista to develop ‘elastic’ connectivity

By Antony Savvas

WorldStream is building an “elastic” virtual network on top of its 10Tbps-plus global backbone with optical technology from Arista Networks. The new platform will be called WorldStream Elastic Network and is expected to be officially launched in Q1 2020. The new software-defined network being developed by WorldStream’s engineering teams uses the EVPN (Ethernet Virtual Private […]

Telia Carrier has customers in more than 110 countries, with its global network connecting more than 265 PoPs with 65,000 km of fibre across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.

Technologies and Products

Colt increases its connectivity in the Japanese market

By Antony Savvas

Colt Technology Services has extended its presence in Japan by expanding the Colt IQ Network to the cities of Kyoto and Kobe. The IQ Network is a 100Gbps optimised intelligent network connected to over 900 data centres and carrier hotels across Europe and Asia. The Asia Pacific region has been a focus for Colt over […]