Arriso Networks Secures $16.7M
Arriso Networks Inc. of Richardson, Texas, said it has closed its Series A funding for approximately $16.7 million with participation from prominent venture capital firms InterWest Partners, CenterPoint Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds.

The company develops telecommunications products for converged networks, enabling network infrastructure providers to unlock stranded profits while using high bandwidth services and containing capital and operating expenditures.

Arriso's management team is composed of members with a combined, 90+ years of telecommunications industry experience ranging from next-generation core optical data networks and system architecture design to software development of SONET multiplexers and other telecom transmission systems. Management team members built their experience working for various industry leaders including Cisco, Nortel, Fujitsu, Alcatel, Bell Labs, Siemens, Mitel Corp., Monterey Networks and Metera Networks.

Product News

StockerYale Intros New L-band Erbium-Doped Fiber
StockerYale Inc., a supplier of photonics-based products, today announced the availability of its EDF-1480-T6 erbium-doped fiber, which is specifically designed to optimize the performance of L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). The high erbium peak absorption levels of this fiber also assist in reducing and controlling design costs in the development of EDFAs by reducing the amount of fiber required within the optical amplifier.

Erbium-doped fiber assists in the regeneration of an optical signal when it passes through an EDFA. And, when configured within long-haul terrestrial or submarine telecommunications systems, EDFAs enable an optical signal to be sent greater distances with increased reliability.

StockerYale's EDF-1480-T6 erbium-doped fiber is designed for L-Band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers that operate out to 1610 nm. Its core composition has been optimized to maintain high erbium levels while minimizing up-conversion clustering effects. This fiber has also been engineered to minimize non-linear effects such as four-wave mixing (FWM). The Company affirms that its fibers can be custom designed to meet specific OEM requirements.

The company expects to begin shipping samples of these high-performance fibers to customers in August.

Canoga Perkins Launches CWDM System
Fiber-optic extension equipment maker Canoga Perkins unveiled what it called one of the industry's most cost-effective Course Wave Division Multiplexer (CWDM) systems for the SAN and Metro environments. The new Canoga Perkins LightWaveXpander 6702 can increase applications capacity by eight times without installing more fiber, officials said. It is fully ITU standards compliant and ships assembled and ready to install.

The new Canoga Perkins LightWaveXpander 6702 CWDM system uses industry standard CWDM wavelengths compliant with ITU-T standards and integrates the industry's first CWDM loopback function. The loopback function assists in troubleshooting of the link and provides a cost-effective way of pinpointing a problem.

The CWDM's transponder complies with all SONET, SAN and Ethernet specifications with complete protocol independence. There's no encapsulating or other data affecting applications to slow down throughput.

The product uses high optical power lasers to achieve distances of up to 80 km without regeneration. This saves cost by not requiring additional repeaters and allows for new application development because of the distance data can travel.

Other News

Agere, Samsung Developing Network-DRAM Devices
Agere Systems Inc. and Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. (SSI) have agreed to collaborate on the development of high-speed Network-DRAM devices that will provide network design engineers with a cost-effective solution for relieving data traffic bottlenecks in next-generation networks.

Network-DRAM is Samsung's high-speed memory technology specifically tailored for broadband networking applications such as 10-gigabit Ethernet and OC-192 synchronous optical networks (SONET), which require very fast, random data access. The technology will be used with Agere's PayloadPlus family of programmable network processors for deep packet processing in high-speed networks. Target customers include original equipment manufacturers (OEM) of high-capacity network and telecommunications systems.

Network-DRAM is fully compatible with fast cycle random access memory (FCRAM), the high-speed networking memory technology jointly developed by Fujitsu and Toshiba. Samsung is currently mass-producing 256-megabit Network-DRAM devices. Agere recently announced similar agreements with Fujitsu and Toshiba.

Corning Optical Fiber Selected for Baltic Sea Link
Corning Inc., a supplier of optical fiber , announced today that AB Stokab and Foco 16 AB, Stockholm-based telecommunications carriers, will deploy almost 50,000 km of Corning SMF-28e, Vascade L1000 and LEAF optical fibers in a new network designed to enable a high-capacity link between Sweden and Latvia.

This will be the first major installation of Vascade L1000 cabled optical fiber in an undersea link and the largest deployment of SMF-28e cabled fiber in Europe, officials said. Ericsson, a global fiber-optic cable supplier based in Sweden, will provide the high-capacity submarine cable for this Baltic Sea network.