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News & Analysis AT&T deploys fiber network in Evansville and Vanderburgh County, IN NOVEMBER 19, 2008 -- AT&T Inc. has announced an agreement with the City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, IN, to ... Teknovus wins 10G EPON designs with Chinese equipment vendors NOVEMBER 19, 2008 -- Three major Chinese communications equipment vendors have designed 10G EPON systems based on Teknovus' ... German utilities Stadtwerke Sindelfingen/Boeblingen select Alcatel-Lucent's GPON NOVEMBER 19, 2008 -- Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Stadtwerke Sindelfingen and Stadtwerke Boeblingen utility ... Fujitsu ROADM platform creates expressway to the SC'08 Conference NOVEMBER 17, 2008 -- Fujitsu Network Communications today announced that a three-node configuration of its FLASHWAVE ...			Products Ericsson touts new optical packet transport platform NOVEMBER 19, 2008 -- SPT 2700 offers high-speed, high-capacity packet transport via a 320G packet switch (scalable ... Optiblue intros CoreBridge 3200 ROADM NOVEMBER 19, 2008 -- Optiblue Inc. recently introduced a new ROADM platform, the CoreBridge3200, based on arrayed waveguide ... Finisar debuts 40G parallel active optical cable NOVEMBER 19, 2008 -- Quadwire is a parallel active optical cable that provides a 40-Gbit/sec aggregate link via four ... Gennum launches quad 10-Gbit/sec CDR NOVEMBER 18, 2008 -- Significantly extending the performance and reach of high-performance computing and networking ...

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Packet optical transport and the evolution of Ethernet
By Fred Ellefson, ADVA Optical Networking -- In the next stage of its evolutionary development, Ethernet becomes ...

Multipoint PBB-TE and T-MPLS
By Daniel Joseph Barry, TPACK -- One of the criticisms of PBB-TE and T-MPLS is their focus on point-to-point ...

An overview of VPLS
By Daniel Joseph Barry, TPACK -- This companion article to "Multipoint PBB-TE and T-MPLS" covers the basics ...

An overview of PBB and PLSB
By Daniel Joseph Barry, TPACK -- This companion article to "Multipoint PBB-TE and T-MPLS" provides an overview ...

Is GPON the access technology for the next decade?
By David Cleary, Calix -- GPON dwarfs most other access technologies in terms of bandwidth deliverable to the ...

From The Wires

Grand Terrace, Loma Linda partner on fiber network
San Bernardino County Sun, Calif. (November 12, 2008)

Fiber optic project will help broadband
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted (November 10, 2008)

Lightwave Logic Inc. CTO reports on company progress
PR Newswire (November 3, 2008)

AboveNet announces Joseph P. Ciavarella as new CFO
PR Newswire (November 3, 2008)

FuzeCore to provide services on UTOPIA Network
Business Wire (October 30, 2008)

Cut fiber optic line leads to phone outage for about 10,000
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (October 30, 2008)

Man of Fiber
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 26, 2008)

Gas consortium builds fiber-optic network linking Armenia, Iran
(October 24, 2008)

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