Optical Communications Continues to Relieve Service Provider Pressure Points - Despite Cloudy Global Financial Picture

September 23 - Optical communications has been a key enabler of telecom growth and will continue to offer relief to service providers squeezed between limited revenue growth and rising costs; that was the message at today’s ECOC Exhibition Market Focus seminar from Dana Cooperson, VP Optical Infrastructure at influential industry analyst house Ovum.
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Will Internet TV Change Telecom Pecking Order ?
The Korean Communications Commission (KCC), the country's broadcasting and telecommunications regulator, granted the IPTV licenses to KT and its fixed-line rivals Hanarotelecom and LG Dacom. Open IPTV, a 50-50 joint venture by Daum and equipment maker, Celrun, was disqualified with KCC officials expressing concerns over the company's financial capabilities.
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AWG passive thermal compensation techniques for WDM-PON

Fiber to the home (FTTH) is now receiving increased attention, as telecommunication carriers begin to upgrade services from traditional voice and/or broadband to full triple play. Market estimates show that in the very near future, the average bandwidth required by the subscribers will be up to 1 Gbit/sec.
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WDM PON: Sooner Rather Than Later ?
For several years, a religious war has raged between advocates of different flavors of fiber to the premises (FTTP). For those deploying FTTH networks, this industry divide makes it tougher to make technology choices. But this war could come to an end sooner than anticipated, because Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)) PON, a technology that could unite the warring tribes, may not be as far off as we all thought.
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ADC debuts WDM-PON offering
ADC has expanded its PONy Express access transport platform with a new WDM-PON application. In this application, the PONy (Passive Optical Network over wavelengths) Express is combined with a WDM-PON plug-and-play splitter in a fiber distribution cabinet to provide an upgrade from GPON to WDM-PON with minimal service impact.
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WDM sales overtake Sonet/SDH
REDWOOD CITY, — According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, sales of WDM systems surpassed that of SONET/SDH multiplexers for the first time ever in the first quarter of this year. Within the $1.4 billion WDM market, the WDM Metro segment outperformed the DWDM Long Haul segment and grew 47 percent over the year-ago quarter.
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20 million European homes will have FTTH by 2015
French cable manufacturer Nexans is predicting 20 million European homes will have a fiber connection by 2015, driven in large part by citynets like Stockholm-owned Stokab, which is connecting buildings rapidly.
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Northern Ireland demos FTTH in live rollout

APRIL 18, 2008 -- A new social housing development in Belfast is one of the first parts of the UK where residents will be offered a choice of next-generation high-speed broadband services, thanks to an initiative by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI), which is responsible for telecommunications policy in Northern Ireland.
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PON market jumps in 2007 as GPON prepares to take off in 2008, WDM-PON emerges
CAMPBELL, California, March 19, 2008—The worldwide market for passive optical networking (PON) systems, which includes BPON, EPON, GPON, and WDM-PON equipment, jumped 56% to $1.74 billion in 2007 over 2006, according to Infonetics Research’s latest quarterly PON and FTTH Equipment and Subscribers report.
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Europe hits one million FTTH broadband connections
The number of countries with fibre to the home (FTTH) connections is continuing to expand, according to an updated global ranking issued by the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Councils of Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
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FTTH Technology Fracas Continues
During 2007, the world's telecom carriers connected another 9 million homes to optical fiber; by 2010, if current trends continue, the number of homes connected to FTTH will pass 50 million. A massive transition to all-fiber access is now all but inevitable everywhere. Yet the road to FTTH is full of twists and turns that make it difficult and frustrating for vendors to negotiate – not least in determining what technologies will be used, where, and when.
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Invitation to presentation of 3rd quarter results 2008

ECOC 2008, Brussels

Europe's Largest Optical Communications Event - ECOC 2008, 21st-25th September 2008, Brussels, Belgium
Successful event for Ignis Photonyx