Newsletter – 9th June

Technologies and Products

OFC: Go!Foton says new ‘any density’ optical patch panel is now available

By Peter Dykes

Go!Foton, has announced general availability for NEMO (Network Enhanced Manageable Optics), its lightweight patch panel. Powered by PEACOC, the company’s flagship fibre management platform which introduced spreadable adapters to fibre connectivity management, NEMO extends the benefits of the traditional bulkhead-style fibre panels and enables substantially higher port counts in any fixed space when compared with […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: Lumenisity® launches hollowcore fibre, demo’s 400Gbps over 1,000km

By Peter Dykes

Lumenisity® Limited has debuted what it claims is the world’s first deployable NANF® based hollowcore fibre optic cables, Hollowcore TradeSmart® and CoreSmart®, which boast 10Gbps, 40 channel DWDM transmission over 10km links. The CoreSmart cables offer high bandwidth and longer reach for Data Centre Interconnects (DCIs) including Edge and 5G xHaul. Recent trials by UK […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: NeoPhotonics’ CFP-DCO pluggables hit 400Gbps over 1,500km

By Peter Dykes

NeoPhotonics Corporation says it has used its Multi-Rate CFP2-DCO coherent pluggable transceivers to effectively transmit at a 400 Gbps over a distance of 1,500 km in a 75 GHz-spaced DWDM network. The 1500 km demonstration was carried out on NeoPhotonics Transmission System Testbed using production modules with enhanced firmware and utilised 75 GHz spaced channels, […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: Ranovus Introduces 2nd-Gen CPO, extends partnership

By Peter Dykes

Ranovus has extended its partnership with IBM, TE Connectivity, and Senko Advanced Components to deliver what the company says it has taken the next step in reducing power consumption and overall costs for hyperscale data centre operations with the introduction of the Odin™ Analog-Drive CPO 2.0 architecture. Co-packaged Optics (CPO) is an innovative approach that […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: Point 2 Technology debuts RangeXtender for 5G x-haul

By Peter Dykes

Point 2 Technologyhas debuted its 5G RangeXtenderTM, an SFP28 module with proprietary electronic dispersion compensation that extends the reach of fronthaul and backhaul in 5G networks. Effectively, it increases the reach of existing fibre transmission paths up to 30 km and reducing CAPEX and OPEX, delivering a reduction of up to 25% in total cost […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: Corning introduces low-loss, flexible cable

By Peter Dykes

Corning Incorporated has introduced the Corning SMF-28® Contour optical fibre which features increased bendability, is designed to reduce errors during installation and optimise reach in densely cabled environments where 5G networks are being deployed. SMF-28 Contour fibre is an ITU-T G.657.A2 fibre that has 10 times the macrobend resilience of G.652.D fibres and seven times […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: II-VI debuts optical transport and access monitoring system

By Peter Dykes

II‐VI has announced the introduction of an optical monitoring system (OMS) for optical transport and access networks. The company says the growing trends of equipment disaggregation at the network core and fibre densification at the network edge, are driving the demand for unified optical monitoring solutions that enable high quality of service end-to-end. II-VI’s OMS […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: Sumitomo Electric launches AI-programmed fusion splicer

By Peter Dykes

Sumitomo Electric has launched what it claims is the world’s first AI-programmed hand-held splicer, The T-502S series is powered by NanoTune™ AI technology, which greatly improves splicing efficiency and accuracy regardless of operational condition and user skill. Using Hot Core Analysing, the T-502S provides accurate estimated loss by analysing the fibre image through high-quality microscopes […]

Technologies and Products

AngaCom: CommScope debuts new fibre deployment solutions

By Peter Dykes

CommScope has unveiled its NOVUX portfolio of outside plant terminals and closures, which, says the company, is the only FTTH platform with an inherently modular, end-to-end architecture that allows operators to scale and shape their networks as they evolve. The NOVUX ecosystem leverages a flexible, modular, and backwards-compatible architecture that allows operators to adapt and […]

Technologies and Products

VIAVI debuts mOSA optical spectrum analysis module

By Peter Dykes

VIAVI Solutions has introduced the mOSA Module, adding optical spectrum analysis to the VIAVI Multiple Application Platform (MAP) optical manufacturing test system. The mOSA complements existing VIAVI solutions for optical power measurement, switching, signal conditioning and test automation. The new MAP mOSA Module offers web and touchscreen user interfaces and claims a 30% improvement in […]

Technologies and Products

BT trials hollow optical fibre

By Peter Dykes

BT says it is trailing hollow core fibre at its labs in Adastral Park, Ipswich, in a collaborative project with Southampton University spin out company Lumenisity and Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) mobile vendor Mavenir. BT researchers are using a 10-kilometre-long hollow core fibre cable provided by Lumenisity, which has a hollow, air filled centre […]

News and Business

UFINET taps Infinera’s ICE6 800G Technology for Colombian network

By Peter Dykes

Infinera says Latin American infrastructure wholesale operator UFINET, selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent technology for its new national long-haul network in Colombia. This deployment will double the capacity of UFINET’s current network, enabling it to meet the growing bandwidth needs of its customers and provide connectivity in regions currently unconnected. Deploying Infinera’s ICE6-powered Compact Modular […]

Product Focus

The innovative drop cable solution will change the paradigm of the FTTH network

By Optical Connections News Team

The Internet Service Providers and Telecom Companies are always eager to aggressively invest on next generation technology for better service to the customers, and it is possible to achieve this by reducing the maintenance cost and the after sales services rate pursuing high service performance and quality at the same time to satisfy the customer […]