optical fiber
RSS optical fiberSONET/SDH Optimizes DWDM Deployment
White Paper With CIENA's solution, the firm was able to leverage existing fiber infrastructure and optical network investments to gain affordable, reliable, and secure storage and BC/DR support. A Global 500 financial services firm faced a number of critical... [28 Jul 2008]
Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) Technologies for Broadband Access: A Review [Invited]
White Paper The Passive Optical Network (PON) is an optical fiber based network architecture, which can provide much higher bandwidth in the access network compared to traditional copper-based networks. Incorporating Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) in a... [18 Jul 2008]
Enterprise Edition Creates Value Across a Global Enterprise
White Paper JDS Uniphase is a worldwide leader in optical technology and products for fiber-optic communications and other industrial, commercial and consumer applications. Changes affecting business travel in its end markets and global events were leading... [18 Jul 2008]
A Survey of MAC Protocols in Optical Networks
White Paper All-Optical networks, where the entire path between end nodes is optical, represent the third generation in the use of fiber in communication systems. This paper provides a comprehensive review of Medium Access Protocols (MAC) for optical networks. [18 Jul 2008]
Light-Trail Testbed for Metro Optical Networks
White Paper As an initial step towards solving this problem, the paper demonstrates a streaming media application implemented utilizing Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) on a 3 Gbps optical fiber network employing light-trail technology. [18 Jul 2008]
Multi-Deck Structure WDM Devices for Optical Networks
White Paper By using multi-deck fiber arrays one device can function as both multiplexers and demultiplexers simultaneously. Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Demultiplexing (WDDM) devices are considered to be one of the key elements in optical networks. [18 Jul 2008]
On the Capacity of Optical Networks: A Framework for Comparing Different Transport Architectures
White Paper Motivated by the incommensurate complexity/cost of comparable transport architectures, the paper investigates the dependence of their relative capacity performance on the number of switch ports per fiber at core nodes. [18 Jul 2008]
Effectiveness of Shared Risk Link Group Auto-Discovery in Optical Networks
White Paper An SRLG is associated with an entity at risk, typically a fiber span, though more general risks might be modeled. Shared Risk Link Groups (SRLGs), introduced in, provide inputs necessary to plan for reliability in transport networks. [18 Jul 2008]
Corning Cable Systems Case Study: Navistar International
White Paper After further evaluation, the company selected Corning Cable Systems' optical fiber cable with guaranteed Gigabit Ethernet link length performance over 62.5 micron multimode fiber. The move to Gigabit Ethernet and to the Extreme switches alerted... [11 Jul 2008]
Syncroness Chooses ADC's Revolutionary CopperTen 10-Gigabit Ethernet UTP Cabling for New Headquarters
White Paper Syncroness evaluated optical fiber in its quest to provide the "Biggest pipe" for its network.gigabit Ethernet performance was mandatory, yet the cost of fiber optics proved prohibitive. Syncroness employs more than 30 mechanical engineers who use... [11 Jul 2008]
Protection Networking of Ethernet PON FTTH Access Network
White Paper Massive deployment of FTTH fiber network causes protection to FTTH network a crucial need. A protection control unit and an optical switch is employed connecting four Optical Line Terminations (OLTs) with each one serving only 32 Optical Network... [08 Jul 2008]
155 Mb/s Plastic Optical Fiber and Hard Polymer Clad Fiber PMD Specification
White Paper This specification describes the Physical Medium Dependent (PMD) sublayer for a 155.52 Mbps private User Network Interface (UNI) over Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) and Hard Polymer Clad Fiber (HPCF) cabling. [03 Jul 2008]
Physical Layer High Density Glass Optical Fiber Connector Annex
White Paper This document is an annex to the Glass Optical Fiber (GOF) Physical Layer descriptions contained in various ATM Forum specifications. This annex provides a central repository for all high density GOF connectors that comply with the required... [03 Jul 2008]
Optical Networking Equipment and Fiber Solutions for the New Metro Network
White Paper ONI Systems Corp.market leading metro optical networking equipment (the ONLINE7000 and the ONLINE9000 transport platforms) combined with Corning’s metro-optimized fiber (MetroCor fiber) will allow service providers to build a metro network [03 Jul 2008]
Optical Networking Systems: Trends and Opportunities
White Paper Optical fiber has a virtual monopoly as the communication medium whenever the bit rate exceeds a few Mb/s or the distances exceed a few hundred meters. Optical fiber communication is also being used for short-distance communication in applications... [03 Jul 2008]
