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Web Exclusive Articles Features | Optical Business | News & Analysis | New Products | Contract Awards | Archives Home Features 2003 P1 Multi-service platforms with standards-based NPU and switch fabric devices By Richard Borgioli and Raffaele Noro, Vitesse Semiconductor--The convergence of voice, data, and video onto packet-switched networks is underway as new deployments and traditional communication networks become multi-service platform architectures. Extending LAN communications across the MAN By ABDUL KASIM, Adva Optical Networking -- Fears of cannibalizing established revenue streams are keeping some carriers from introducing managed Ethernet services. Others are seizing the opportunity and realizing new, high-margin revenues today. Managing Ethernet in the metro core By IAN HOOD, Mahi Networks -- There are two primary ways to deploy Ethernet services. One is clearly more efficient than the other. Fiber cable assembly reaches new levels By RANDY REAGAN, FONS Corp. -- Improvements in the fiber-optic cable assembly process allow a new level of performance while reducing costs. Making virtual tributaries come to life By JON AMES and GREG FYKE, PMC-Sierra, Inc. -- SONET/SDH infrastructures can support Ethernet access services, thanks to new standards. A holistic approach to HR By MELANIE WALLACH, Palomar Technologies -- Connecting employee performance to corporate goals is an ongoing process that requires participation from all. Application of Fabry-Perot interferometry in frequency control and stabilization By DR. PEY-SCHUAN JIAN and PEITI SU, Fibera--The advent of DWDM and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers significantly increased the transmission capabilities of optical fiber, while reducing the cost per bit. DWDM is an important innovation in optical networking because it provides flexibility and scalability, filling the useful optical spectrum in the C-band alone with 40+ channels at 100-GHz spacing, or 80+ channels at 50-GHz spacing, on the same fiber-optic waveguide. Simplifying interoffice facilities using RPR technology By VINAY BANNAI, Luminous Networks--A major component of cost and expense for today's local-exchange carrier (LEC) is in the transport of services between metro-area central offices. Rx for SONET and Ethernet By LEE JENKINS, Tellabs--Caught between tight capital budgets and shrinking core revenues, today's service providers face a seemingly impossible conundrum: They must figure out how to capitalize on demand for new data services in a profitable way, without disrupting existing networks and revenue streams. Interferometric optical test and accurate component performance modeling By DR. BRIAN SOLLER, Luna Technologies--Traditional BER testing at the component and subassembly level is costly and time consuming. Optical vector analysis, a measurement principle based on coherent interferometry, provides not only fast and accurate measurements of loss and dispersion in components and subassemblies, but a practical and cost-effective means of predicting eye-opening power penalty and BER. PAGE: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |

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