SUDBURY, Mass. -- SUDBURY, Mass. -- Airplane crash investigations have been hindered by limited flight data, prompting the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to push for more recorded information so they can determine the causes of accidents. Raytheon Commercial Electronics has developed a fiber optic flight data acquisition and recording system that monitors 88 parameters, and it does so at a relatively low cost and weight. The FAA has mandated that passenger...

Jun 25, 1999 — PHOENIX, Ariz., June 25 -- International FiberCom Inc. will provide AT&T Broadband and Internet Services (AT&T BIS) with design-build services for the upgrade of its cable systems. Initial work will include portions of AT&T's cable upgrade projects...

Jun 25, 1999 — NEW YORK, NY, June 25 -- Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. has agreed to acquire AboveNet Communications Inc., a supplier of managed Internet services, in a stock swap worth about $1.55 billion. Under the terms of the acquisition, which is expected to...

Jun 23, 1999 — ATLANTA, GA, June 23 -- Four major telecommunications companies -- BellSouth, British Telecommunications (BT), France Telecom (FT) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) -- have developed a common technical specification that should hasten...

Jun 18, 1999 — NEW YORK, NY, June 18 -- Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. plans to build local high-density fiber optic networks in the metropolitan areas of London and Amsterdam. The company will deploy more than 32,400 fiber kilometers in London to cover in excess...

Jun 15, 1999 — NEW YORK, NY, June 15 -- Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. and Bell Atlantic have signed an agreement under which Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) will implement dark fiber connectivity within all Bell Atlantic central offices. This accord, a first for...

Jun 11, 1999 — WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY, June 11 -- Fiber Optek Interconnect Corp. is forming a new division to develop technology to increase the capacity of existing communications infrastructures. Such a boost could be achieved by converting global telephone...

Jun 9, 1999 — MURRAY HILL, NJ, June 9 -- Lucent Technologies has signed agreements valued at more than $100 million with Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. for deployment of TrueWave RS Fibre throughout the US and Europe. Under the terms of the contract Lucent will...

Jun 8, 1999 — NEW YORK, NY, June 8 -- Africa ONE, an independent telecommunications network, announced that it will link the countries of Africa to one another and to growing global broadband telecommunication networks. S.G. Fassoulis, chairman of Africa ONE,...

Jun 3, 1999 — ATLANTA, Georgia, June 3 -- BellSouth Corp. will test a new fiber-optic data line at 400 suburban Atlanta homes this fall as part of the company's plan to provide affordable high-speed Internet access. The fiber-optic line should transmit data...

MURRAY HILL, N.J. — More than three decades have passed since the unique properties of zirconium tungstate were first observed by Penn State University researchers. This material exhibits negative thermal expansion -- expansion occurs on cooling rather than heating --...

May 1, 1999 — Amplifying telecommunications signals in optical fiber systems is a relatively straightforward process: Signal photons + pump photons + erbium atoms = more signal photons. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has changed the power...

May 1, 1999 — Siemens Information and Communications Networks in Boca Raton, Fla., has taken a step toward increasing the speed and data capacity over fiber optic networks by demonstrating transmission rates of 1.2 Tb/s over one 80-km-long optical fiber....

Apr 22, 1999 — CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 22 -- Total investment in the worldwide fiber optic submarine systems market will total $31.8 billion over the next five years, according to a report from market researcher Pioneer. This spending will represent a 169 percent...

Apr 15, 1999 — CORNING, N.Y., April 15 -- Corning Incorporated credits demand for optical fiber and photonics products with helping to lift 1999 first quarter earnings to $0.36 per share, an increase of 33 percent over the $0.27 per share earnings for the same...

Apr 13, 1999 — AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, April 13 -- KPNQwest announced the finalization of a joint venture between KPN, the Dutch telecommunications company, and Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver. The venture currently provides Internet...

Apr 9, 1999 — CHARLTON, Mass., April 9 -- FiberCore, Inc., a manufacturer of optical fiber and preforms for the telecommunication and data communication markets, reports that an independent arbitrator has ruled in its favor in a 1998 patent infringement claim...

Apr 1, 1999 — Multiwavelength and high-speed optical fiber transmission technologies, particularly those aimed at metropolitan communications networks, converged on the exhibit floor at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference in February. The conference...

Apr 1, 1999 — Several optical effects can degrade the signal quality of optical transmission over silica glass fiber. The more well-known mechanisms, such as attenuation and chromatic dispersion, are linear in nature and can be accurately predicted. Other...

Apr 1, 1999 — Lucent Technologies Inc., headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., and SviazStroy-1 of Russia have teamed up to manufacture fiber optic cable to meet the burgeoning needs of network operators within Russia and other countries that were formerly part of...

Apr 1, 1999 — A federal grand jury has indicted a naturalized Canadian citizen and a Chinese national in connection with an effort to export fiber optic gyroscopes from Massachusetts to China. US Customs Service agents arrested Collin Xu, 33, of Montreal and Yi...

Apr 1, 1999 — Tyco Submarines Systems Ltd., based in Morristown, N.J., has demonstrated in a laboratory experiment transmission of 64 10-Gb/s WDM channels on a single fiber path over a distance of 7200 km, representing an overall capacity of 640 Gb/s per fiber....

Apr 1, 1999 — Demand for optical fiber grew at a steady pace worldwide in 1998, driven by countries like South Africa, which is rapidly expanding its telecommunications infrastructure. That's the finding of the annual analysis of the fiber and photonics industry...

Mar 30, 1999 — CHARLTON, Mass., March 30 -- FiberCore, Inc. says it has completed its Jena, Germany, plant expansion. The expansion more than doubles both preform and fiber capacity. Management expects that this plant expansion will not be sufficient to handle the...

Mar 16, 1999 — NEW YORK, NY, March 16 -- Metromedia Fiber Network GmbH, the German subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc., has filed for licensing with the German regulatory authorities to construct a high-speed, high-bandwidth intracity fiber network in...