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Furukawa Electric, a multi-billion dollar global leader in optical communications.
OFS will be showcasing its products at OFC/ NFOEC 2012 at booth #2125. The conference took place at the Los Angeles Convention Centre from March 4th to 8th in Los Angeles, California.
The Terabit age advances
with Infinera’s InP PICs The company will host the first public demonstration of its 2 Tb/s small form factor DTN-X indium phosphide based platform
Infinera is participating at OFC/NFOEC this week and plans for the first public demonstration of its 2 Tb/s small form factor DTN-X platform.
OFC/NFOEC took place at the Los Angeles Convention Centre from March 4th to 8th in Los Angeles, California.
At the conference, the Infinera Express mobile demonstration lab will showcase the firm’s latest Digital Optical Networking solutions designed for the Terabit age. Inside the Infinera Express at OFC/NFOEC, the company will have on display a pair of DTN-X platforms configured with 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels.
At OFC/NFOEC, Infinera is providing the first public demonstration of the half-rack small form factor XTC-4 chassis with 2 Tb/s of integrated OTN switching and simulating typical high-bandwidth transport links on customer networks. The XTC-4 provides a DTN-X class solution in a smaller form factor for operators who have space constraints or a need for lower total chassis capacity. The DTN-X platform in a full-rack XTC-10 chassis with 5 Tb/s of integrated OTN switching was demonstrated in September 2011. Both the XTC-4 and XTC-10 are planned for availability in the first half of 2012.
The Infinera Express will also showcase the DTN platform which interoperates with the DTN-X for cost effective service delivery. Both the DTN and DTN-X boast an 8th generation common intelligent GMPLS control plane along with a common DNA management system for rapid service turn up via point and click provisioning, auto-discovery and automated service restoration.
Infinera’s says its DTN-X platform is the industry’s only super-channel DWDM solution based on 500 Gb/s photonic integrated circuits (PICs); it also integrates OTN switching and a GMPLS control plane without any performance compromise.
The InP based PICs integrate more than 600 optical functions, traditionally implemented on discrete components, onto a pair of chips significantly improving reliability, increasing system density and reducing power consumption. They deliver the world’s first 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels based on 100 Gb/s channels–providing service providers a network that scales for the future, is simple to operate enabling agile service deployment, and efficiently uses fibre resources ultimately benefitting an operator’s bottom line.
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Infinera’s executives and engineers will make presentations addressing new developments in technologies that enable next-generation optical networking solutions including photonic integration and coherent transmission.
Co-founder and Chief Strategy David Welch spoke on Monday, March 5th where he presented “Disruptive Technologies: What to PIC?”
KuangTsan Wu, Infinera Fellow and one of the world’s foremost coherent transmission architects spoke on Thursday, March 8th on “Techniques in Carrier Recovery for Optical Systems.“
Infinera’s Vice-President of Development and Manufacturing, Fred Kish, presented on Monday, March 5th during a workshop titled “Optical Component Technology.”
Vice-President of Product Marketing, Antti Kankkunen, spoke on Thursday, March 8th on a panel titled “Photonic Integration in Long Haul Transport Networks.”
Han Sun, Senior Principal Engineer focused on coherent algorithms, also presented on Thursday March 8th on “Clock
Recovery and Jitter Sources in Coherent Transmission.”
RF Electronics RFMD annual incomes crash over 82%
In the last quarter, the firm was adversely affected due to the depleted demand from China and a major European handset manufacturer, though this was offset by increased market share gains in smartphones. In the next quarter, RFMD is expecting a growth of about 50% in its gallium nitride business
RF Micro Devices has reported financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter, ended March 31, 2012 as well as annual results for fiscal year 2012.
During fiscal year 2012, the firm had revenues of $871.4 million, down 17.2% from the $1051.8 million it made in FY 2011. Operating incomes slid over 82.4% from last year from $139.5 million to $24.6 million. And net incomes crashed by a
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