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in Union-supported collaborative research and development project ModeGap," said Bera Palsdottir, manager of Incubation Center OFS Denmark. "The fibers have been tested by our business partners at ModeGap, already resulting in several publications, with the demonstration of transmission of 57.6 terabit per second using 6 spatial modes being the most impressive result thus far.” The optical transport equipment vendor ECI Telecom has announced that its Apollo OMLT packet-optical transport platform has successfully transmitted 100Gbps coherent traffic between Tel Aviv and Bari, Italy, a round trip of 4,600km. The coherent transmission, part of a trial in conjunction with the Tera Santa Consortium, used Bezeq International’s Jonah submarine fiber cable network. The Tera Santa Consortium aims to develop the world’s first terabit orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based fiber optic network. The trial was part of the consortium’s research into long-distance adaptive coherent channel behavior. It also demonstrated the robustness of the soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) technology the Apollo OMLT employs, ECI asserts. the European Long-distance trial

Eran Dariel, general manager, portfolio business, at ECI Telecom, commented: “The 100G channels from the Apollo OMLT allow submarine cable operators to increase significantly the network capacity over expensive links with minimal network adjustment. ECI already deployed and trialled 100G solutions in various customer networks and now we also displayed our capability over submarine cables.” ECI is a founding member of the Tera Santa Consortium. Other members include Finisar Corp’s Israeli subsidiary, Orckit-Corrigent, MultiPhy, Optiway, Civcom, Bezeq International, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Ben-Gurion University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University, and Tel-Aviv University. Toshiba Corporation has launched fiber optic transmission modules capable of sending and receiving signals from DC to 500kb per second with low consumption current up to a maximum distance of 10m using APF (all plastic fiber). They are an addition to its Toslink™ fiber optic transmission device line-up. A newly developed high-luminosity LED allows the new products to be driven at a lower current than existing products. Also, while existing products consume the same current, regardless of whether the module New fiber packages

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