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Lightwave Breaking News |View online | October 27, 2009

On the Lightwave Blog
A few notes from Supercomm Stephen breaks down the level of activity at Supercomm, as well as a few key themes at the show.
On the Lightwave Channel: DOCSIS-based FTTH options Scott Wilkinson, VP at Hitachi Communications Technologies America, reviews the current state of RF over glass and DOCSIS PON and predicts how these technologies will be deployed in the future.
MetroCast chooses Motorola's RF over glass for FTTH MetroCast will deploy the Motorola RFoG equipment at “select” Virginia properties in specific rebuild areas to upgrade existing coaxial networks to fiber-to-the-home (FTTH).


Alloptic announces multivendor EPON ONT interoperability Alloptic says it has extended the capabilities of its edge10 OLT to interoperate with ONT designs that are based on EPON chipsets from PMC-Sierra and Teknovus.
Aurora Networks' MDU and rural area optical nodes now available in the Americas A platform designed to be well suited for cable operators expanding their network evolution to the MDU market and low-density rural areas, the NC2000 enables operators to maximize the bandwidth of existing HFC, Fiber Deep, and RFoG deployments.

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Motorola expands Fiber Deep and CablePON portfolios Motorola Inc. Home & Networks Mobility business has expanded its cable access portfolio with the introduction of new products designed to enable cable operators to seamlessly and cost-effectively migrate their networks to fiber-deep architectures and begin the transition to all-fiber networks.
Zarlink's circuit emulation products achieve MEF 18 certification Zarlink Semiconductor says that its portfolio of Circuit Emulation Services over Packet (CESoP) products has successfully achieved Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 18 certification.
Alloptic delivers high-performance return-path receiver for RFoG The EVRRL410 series of return-path receivers are designed to offer service providers DOCSIS 3.0 performance with the widest dynamic range in which to operate a high-capacity QAM return path using a standard, non-proprietary RFoG architecture.

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