Supporting channel counts from 16 to 40 and above, the ROADplexer add/drop multiplexer offers 100% dynamic reconfigurability. The board offers a per-channel insertion loss of 4 dB with a 3-ms ...

As bit rates in the optical backbone speed past 40 Gbits/s per wavelength, there is a fundamental problem with the front-end optical-to-electronic conversion process. As Roel Baets, head of the ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — Optical Ethernet start-up Atrica Inc. this week rolled out a high-end switch for the core of metropolitan-area networks (MAN) designed to overcome the limitations of current ...

Start-up Cirrex Corp. recently joined the fray of components vendors trying to produce small-footprint, highly integrated optical modules. On March 6 the company unveiled its first product: an ...

Cisco last week unveiled upgrades to its ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform designed to enable service providers and enterprises to improve service delivery, network scalability and management.