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Historic Campus Welcomes Facility Improvements and Savings: Founded in 1867 to educate freed slaves, St. Augustine's College serves a multi-national, multi-racial student body. Situated on 110 acres, the tree-lined campus includes 38 buildings with 450,000 square feet and hosts 1,400 students and 95 faculty members. The College wanted to reduce equipment downtime and comfort complaints throughout the...; Tags: Network technology, Johnson Controls Inc., HVAC, fiber-optic cable, fiber-optics, cable, performance; Case studies
Petrochemical Company Reaps Huge Profit From Accurate Sub-billing: A Fortune 500 company that runs a major chemical processing operation in Texas identified a problem area in its utility billing. Like many large refineries, they sell off different processes to other companies and accurate bill for power they use is quite a challenge. To remove billing guesswork, Power Measurement...; Tags: Network technology, billing, fiber-optics, Intranet, Ethernet, modem, radio; Case studies
Case Study: Chelan County PUD: The Chelan County PUD owns and operates the nation's second largest non-federal, publicly owned hydro generating system. In addition to the generation and sale of electricity, the District also provides water and wastewater service to residents of Chelan County. Recently the Chelan County PUD moved into a multi-tenant, three-story building...; Tags: fiber-optics; Case studies
Volkswagen Passes Year 2000 Challenge: Metasys Drives 8000 Point System: Early last year, Volkswagen AG set a corporate goal to be Y2K compliant by June 30, 1999. At the Wolfsburg, Germany production plant, which encompasses 20 buildings, the task force teamed with Johnson Controls and turned Volkswagen's corporate goal into an opportunity to upgrade the control systems at the complex....; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, NETWORKING, Johnson Controls Inc., Volkswagen AG, Y2K, fiber-optic network, fiber-optics, benefit, network; Case studies
Terabyte Transfer Time: One Second!: A terabyte is a lot of data... but data needs are growing. Many corporations have a need for high-speed networks, and even with the best of broadband, you can get a respectable 150 megabits a second (which is much faster than your typical consumer cable connection). (Download) times are...; Tags: Network technology, Fiber optics, Optical networking, Broadband Internet, Jonathan Haeber, wavelength, cable; Blog posts 2007-10-10

Technology Options For Optical Access Networks Offering Increased Bandwidth: The marketplace is currently on the cusp of the mass deployment of fiber-based broadband access directly to individual residences. Optical access networks take a variety of forms that will extend optical fibers all the way to or near the residence. Architectures known as Passive Optical Networks (PONs) are likely to...; Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Fiber optics, Optical networking, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Telcordia Technologies, fiber, optical fiber, optical network, broadband, broadband service, network; White papers 2006-06-01
GPON FTTH Market and Technology Overview: Gigabit PON is an attractive FTTH broadband access network technology because it meets the needs of carrier's world-wide. GE-PON has successfully demonstrated this approach and is being deployed in high volume in Asia, while the GPON standard will provide similar capabilities for carriers in North America. It includes all of...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, Broadband Internet, PMC-Sierra Inc., FTTH, gigabit, carrier; White papers 2006-04-01
Fluorescent Sensor Detects Microbes in Real Time: BioVigilant has developed an optical technology that can determine the quantity and size of particles in liquid or air, and simultaneously determine whether each particle is inert or biologic, all in real time. The result is that BioVigilant's devices provide instantaneous microbial detection, thereby creating wide-ranging benefits for pharmaceutical manufacturers....; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, particle, optical technology, Real-Time, benefit; White papers 2005-07-05
FTTH: The Overview Of Existing Technologies: The growing popularity of the Internet is the key driver behind the development of new access methods which would enable a customer to experience a true broadband. Amongst various technologies, the access methods based on the optical fiber are getting more and more attention as they offer the ultimate solution...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, Broadband Internet, Network technology, Dublin City University, FTTH, optical fiber, fiber, analysis, broadband, Internet; White papers 2005-03-09
Strategy White Paper: Convergent Transport Networks: Multi-service transport has successfully integrated new services and new technologies on a common platform. This has enabled operators to extend the working lives of their SONET/SDH networks and capitalize on their existing investment in infrastructure, equipment and operations. Convergent transport is the successor to multi-service transport, bringing yet another level...; Tags: NETWORKING, Alcatel, transport, SONET/SDH, QoS, strategy, network; White papers 2004-11-16
Resilient Inter-Metro Hierarchical VPLS: The solution proposed in this paper solves the problem of resiliency in the connections between customer sites that span multiple metro Ethernet networks. The solution relies on H-VPLS spoke redundancy. The recovery times associated with the solution are on the same order as those commonly associated with SONET/SDH APS recovery...; Tags: NETWORKING, Alcatel, Metro Ethernet, SONET/SDH, Ethernet, network; White papers 2004-10-29
Applications of Optical Fiber Sensors to Structural Health Monitoring, Optimization and Life-Cycle Cost Control for Oil and Gas Infrastructures: Optical fiber sensing is one of today's fastest developing technologies. The significant advantages that optical fiber sensors hold over more conventional sensors for component testing, design validation and structural health monitoring have long been understood. However, it is only within recent years that this unique technology has sufficiently matured to...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, Network technology, Business Briefings, optical fiber, fiber, sensor, health care; White papers 2004-07-20
Designing Cable for Nuclear Power Plants: This paper focuses on the installation of cable in nuclear power station. Industrial Ethernet applications utilize both copper and fiber optic cable products. However, due to the sensitive environment and EMI, nuclear power plants are specifying fiber optic cable, not necessarily due to its bandwidth, but due to its flexibility,...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, Network technology, fiber-optic cable, nuclear energy, fiber-optics, copper, cable, environment, industry, network; White papers 2004-04-20
Demystifying GMPLS: A Technical Perspective - Technology White Paper: This technical white paper explains how the objectives detailed in the accompanying strategy white paper (The telecommunications holy grail or a pragmatic means of raising carrier profitability) can be achieved using a GMPLS distributed control plane. It first describes the conceptual evolution that, starting from MPLS, led to the integration...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, NETWORKING, Alcatel, Holy Grail, MPLS, SDH, SONET, optical network, strategy, telecommunications, network; White papers 2003-12-17
Fiber Optic Structural Health Monitoring in Oil Production and Transport: This article discusses the properties of fiber optic sensors that make them suited for applications in the oil sector and introduces the concept of structural health monitoring. Finally, the article discusses the trends in public and governmental safety awareness and environmental protection focus that are set to change the operational...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, Vertical industries, Network technology, Benefits, Business Briefings, fiber-optics, health care, environment, industry; White papers 2003-11-05
Multilevel Behavioral Simulation Of VCSEL Based Optoelectronic Modules: The assembly within a single optoelectronic interconnect module of different components, including Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) and photodiode arrays, optical fibers and electronics implying electrical, optical, mechanical and thermal interactions, introduces new constraints in the conception phase and necessitates a new and different approach for modeling and simulation....; Tags: Network technology, IEEE, MEMS, optical fiber, fiber, modeling, electronics; White papers 2003-05-28
Development of Polymeric Optical Fibre Fabrics as Illumination Elements and Textile Displays: Polymeric optical fiber (POF) is used for simple light guide and illumination applications. The polymer optical fiber materials can be utilized in flexible lighting elements, which can be combined with textile structures. The POF woven fabrics are introduced as a flexible alternative to lighting elements. This paper discusses various light-emitting...; Tags: Fiber optics, Network technology, Optical networking, optical fiber, polymer, fiber, theory, PC; White papers 2003-03-01
Fiber-To-The-Home White Paper: For almost as long as fiber optic communications has been around, recurrent optimistic predictions have appeared to the effect that soon this communication medium would extend into user premises, both business and residential (FTTB and FTTH, respectively). This white paper reviews these events, technical, economic, regulatory and societal, and comes...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, Broadband Internet, EarthLink Inc., FTTH, fiber-optics, small business; White papers 2003-02-21
Monitoring a Concrete Arch Bridge During Construction Using Fiber Optic Sensors: This paper briefly introduces the functional principle of the long-gage sensors used in this application, illustrate their installation and discuss the measurement results obtained during construction. The installed SOFO fiber optic sensors have a measurement basis between 3m and 5m and were installed in pairs in the concrete arch. Measuring...; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, sensor, fiber-optics, monitoring; White papers 2001-07-04
Cardiofocus: This paper outlines brief about medical device being used to perform a surgery related to atrial fibrillation, which is an irregular heartbeat. CardioFocus created the optical technology behind the Optimaze Surgical Ablation System to allow surgeons to perform a modified Maze procedure. A cardiovascular surgeon uses CardioFocus' Optimaze handpiece to...; Tags: Optical networking, Fiber optics, surgeon, therapy, optical technology, medical device, diode, fiber-optics, laser; White papers 2004-11-06