Photonics Spectra: FTTH This is the syndication feed for Photonics Spectra: FTTH. https://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?Tag=FTTH Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:17:37 GMT Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT 1800 AFL Invests in FTTH Growth in Brazil
Tony Medeiros will represent the company throughout the region from his head office in São Paulo. He brings more than 25 years of hands-on fiber optics experience to the role. He has also served as a consultant to the Department of Defense and the US Army’s 571st Signal Brigade for KOTNET operations in South Korea.

As part of the launch, AFL is hosting complimentary FTTH fiber optic technology seminars. Topics include the following: network topologies, an overview of how FTTH is being implemented in the US, a preview of certified fiber-to-the-home planner prerequisite...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/AFL_Invests_in_FTTH_Growth_in_Brazil/p5/a51645 A51645 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Former Bookham Director Named BeamExpress Chairman
BeamExpress also has completed a $3 million funding round led by Polytech Ventures along with existing investor i-Source Gestion.

“There is an important and growing need for telco laser sources that offer lower power consumption and lower heat generation, particularly in market segments like 40 Gb/s optical links and point-to-point FTTH,” said i-Source Gestion venture capital firm partner Nicolas Landrin. “We believe that the VCSEL [vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser] technology of BeamExpress will provide a...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Former_Bookham_Director_Named_BeamExpress/p5/a47553 A47553 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT
NeoPhotonics Reports $1.9M Q1 Loss
Looking to the positive news of the quarter, NeoPhotonics reported strong sales in fiber-to-the-home modules and a new integrated coherent receiver (ICR) product line. Its first-quarter revenue was up 27 percent year over year to $50.9 million, but was flat when compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.

Also this quarter, the company announced a new PIC-based ICR for 40 and 100 Gb/s DWDM transmission systems, which incorporates an...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/NeoPhotonics_Reports_19M_Q1_Loss/p5/a47070 A47070 Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT
FTTH Council Established in Middle East
Incubated since 2009 as an ad-hoc working party by the FTTH Council Europe, the Middle East group is now an independent organization and a fully-fledged council that can respond to the specific needs of its Middle East members.

The FTTH Council Middle East will work with the Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America councils to promote and accelerate the deployment of high-speed fiber-based access networks to consumers and businesses around the world.

The official launch of the FTTH Council Middle East took place at the FTTH Middle East Conference 2010 which was held on...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/FTTH_Council_Established_in_Middle_East_/p5/a45154 A45154 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT
AFL Opens Fiber Optic Facility in UK
“As fiber-rich communication applications continue to grow, AFL will now be able to offer shorter lead times to our customers, allowing us to be more responsive in the European market,” said Paul Thompson, managing director of AFL Europe. “In addition, the infrastructure and location of the town enables convenient transport and efficient international distribution.”

AFL’s Swindon...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/AFL_Opens_Fiber_Optic_Facility_in_UK_/p5/a44500 A44500 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits for 10G Passive Optical Networks
Continually escalating demands for broader penetration of higher bandwidth, faster performance and rich-media applications are driving the ongoing worldwide deployment of fiber-based services. Even in the face of global economic challenges during the past two years, carriers and their equipment suppliers have experienced robust growth in the deployment of fiber-to-the-home and -building (FTTH/B) technologies.

As carriers compete to provide high-speed connectivity for delivering rich multimedia content and triple-play services, passive optical network (PON) deployments have kicked into high gear, and fiber-based networking is migrating ever closer to end users at the edge of the network infrastructure. However, even as 1G and 2G PON...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Monolithic_Photonic_Integrated_Circuits_for_10G/p5/a44257 A44257 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Telecom Boom in India? Fiber to the home provides welcome boost
The telecom sector in India has seen tremendous growth in the past decade, particularly following a series of government efforts in the 1990s. These began in earnest with the announcement of the first National Telecom Policy in 1994 and continued with the establishment of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act in 1997 and the introduction of the second National Telecom Policy in mid-1999. Additional efforts in the early part of the past decade paved the way for a boom in the past several years. This witnessed investments of $8.5 billion in the telecom sector, $5.5 million of which came in the form of Foreign Direct Investment, or FDI.

Much of the attention in this sector – indeed, much of the growth – has focused on...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Telecom_Boom_in_India_Fiber_to_the_home_provides/p5/a44259 A44259 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Europe makes gains in FTTH
There were close to 41 million fiber-to-the-home/ building (FTTH/B) subscribers worldwide in 2009, and the figure is expected to rise to 52 million in 2010, according to IDATE Consulting and Research, based in Montpellier, France. The company predicts that by the end of 2014 there will be close to 306 million residences around the globe enabled for FTTH/B, of which 18 percent will be located in western Europe – and of which more than half will still be in Asia.

“Several European countries show good progress in FTTH deployments. This includes the ‘FTTH pioneers’ in northern Europe like Sweden or Denmark as well as several Eastern European countries. But Europe as a whole still lags behind compared to Asia and...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Europe_makes_gains_in_FTTH/p5/a43373 A43373 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Polatis, JDSU Expand Agreement
Under the existing agreement, JDSU integrates Polatis products as part of its portfolio of test solutions for the laboratory and production markets. With the expanded agreement, it will integrate the products with its solutions for the fiber-to-the-home monitoring and system integration and test labs markets, as well as for government, aerospace and defense markets.

“Test automation and connectivity further reduce costs and Polatis optical switches enable JDSU customers to implement our wide-ranging physical layer testers in a more cost-effective way,” said Gerald Wesel, CEO at Polatis. “The...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Polatis_JDSU_Expand_Agreement_/p5/a41570 A41570 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
IEEE Honors OneChip Photonics https://www.photonics.com/Articles/IEEE_Honors_OneChip_Photonics/p5/a40479 A40479 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT How Smart Grid and FTTH Can Help Further Develop the Indian Economy
One of the points coming out of his keynote was that the smart grid will play a critical role in the development of India’s economy in the future! This is well known to everyone, given India’s power problems in several areas. Hence, all those earlier blog posts about how LEDs and solar can make a difference to India’s energy needs.

India houses a population of over 1.1 billion people – the world’s second largest population. By 2025, India’s urban population is estimated to increase by 50 percent....]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/How_Smart_Grid_and_FTTH_Can_Help_Further_Develop/p5/a39857 A39857 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Photonics Korea Show is Here
So when I recently came across a page on the Web that describes Gwangju town (or "village of light"), as home to over a dozen research institutes, government agencies investing in photonics R&D, and photonics trade associations promoting the industry's development, my attention was diverted to that city and of course, South Korea.

Coming back to fall electronics shows, one such show that springs to my mind is the International Photonics Exhibition 2009 (Photonics Korea 2009), which will be held...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Photonics_Korea_Show_is_Here/p5/a39822 A39822 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
IME on Silicon Photonics Research and MPW Prototyping
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore, has done some research work on silicon photonics research and MPW prototyping.

IME will include components (germanium-on-silicon avalanche photodetectors, silicon modulators and wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical filters, all of which can be monolithically integrated on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform.

Thanks to my good friend, Charles Lee, I was able to set up a conversation with Dr. Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo, director of Nanoelectronics & Photonics Programme, IME. Elaborating on IME’s silicon photonics research and MPW prototyping, he said that, traditionally, an optical transceiver is fabricated by assembling discrete photonic and electronic components in...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/IME_on_Silicon_Photonics_Research_and_MPW/p5/a39067 A39067 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Enablence to Buy ANDevices
Enablence, which completed its public offering in October, will acquire ANDevices, a supplier of planar lightwave circuit (PLC)-based photonic devices for the access, metro and long-haul communication markets, through a US subsidiary. The deal is expected to be completed by Feb. 15, subject to customary approvals.

Enablence president and CEO Arvind Chhatbar said, “The acquisition of ANDevices provides Enablence with a secure wafer fabrication facility for fiber-to-the-home transceivers; it also gives us the ability to...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Enablence_to_Buy_ANDevices/p5/a32144 A32144 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Polatis to Put Production Plant in Poland https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Polatis_to_Put_Production_Plant_in_Poland/p5/a29927 A29927 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT Corning Cable to Equip Resort Fiber Network https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Corning_Cable_to_Equip_Resort_Fiber_Network_/p5/a29205 A29205 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Enablence to Buy Albis
Under their agreement, Enablence will acquire all the shares of Albis for $4,127,028.54 in cash and 1,889,686 in Enablence stock, at the average 10-day closing price of $1.10 per share, said Arvind Chhatbar, CEO of Enablence.

“This acquisition is part of Enablence’s plan to expand related product lines with a view to taking advantage of growing opportunities in the fiber-to-the-home market,” Chhatbar said. “Albis Optoelectronics is a well-established...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Enablence_to_Buy_Albis/p5/a28925 A28925 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Ultrafast Data Transmit Rates a Hot Topic at OFC/NFOEC
This year’s OFC/NFOEC (Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference) will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center from March 25-29. More than 13,000 attendees are expected, drawn to the event's comprehensive technical program comprising hundreds of sessions, workshops, short courses, tutorial sessions and paper presentations, as well as...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Ultrafast_Data_Transmit_Rates_a_Hot_Topic_at/p5/a28608 A28608 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Ultrafast Data Transmit Rates a Hot Topic at OFC/NFOEC
This year’s OFC/NFOEC (Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference) will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center from March 25-29. More than 13,000 attendees are expected, drawn to the event's comprehensive technical program comprising hundreds of sessions, workshops, short courses, tutorial sessions and paper presentations, as well as...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Ultrafast_Data_Transmit_Rates_a_Hot_Topic_at/p5/a28609 A28609 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Emerging Technology and Trends on Tap at OFC/NFOEC
The future of optical communications, including broadband, fiber-to-the-home and growing bandwidth demands, as well as cutting-edge technology and industry trends, will be discussed at the 2007 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), being held at the Anaheim Convention Center from March 25-29.

More than 13,000 are expected to attend this year's OFC/NFOEC, widely considered the premier international event for both the science and business of optical communications and the largest all-optical business exhibition in the US.

Since 1985, the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) has been the annual forum for those in the optical...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Emerging_Technology_and_Trends_on_Tap_at_OFC_NFOEC/p5/a28481 A28481 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT