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UK NATIONAL GRID SELECTS EXFO FOR INNOVATIVE FIBER HEALTH MONITORING PILOT PROJECT

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
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National Grid has deployed an overhead fiber optic operational telecommunications network across its electricity transmission infrastructure that carries critical information essential for secure and efficient utility operations.

Key Points: 
  • National Grid has deployed an overhead fiber optic operational telecommunications network across its electricity transmission infrastructure that carries critical information essential for secure and efficient utility operations.
  • National Grid anticipates that EXFO's proactive monitoring and fault detection can deliver a net benefit of as much as £2.9m (approx.
  • EXFO's optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) fiber monitoring units are being deployed at key nodes on the fiber optic network to monitor its optical transmission characteristics and measure its health and condition.
  • Our remote, proactive fiber testing and monitoring solution provides complete visibility across the fiber network, with capabilities to predict and detect potential outages in real time.

UK NATIONAL GRID SELECTS EXFO FOR INNOVATIVE FIBRE HEALTH MONITORING PILOT SCHEME

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
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QUEBEC, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EXFO, the communications industry's test, monitoring and analytics experts, today announced that National Grid, one of the world's largest publicly-listed utilities focused on transmission and distribution of electricity and gas, has selected EXFO for an innovation pilot scheme to provide monitoring for its ongoing fibre network health assessment in the UK, supporting the UK's goal of becoming net-zero by 2050.

Key Points: 
  • National Grid has deployed an overhead fibre optic operational telecommunications network across its electricity transmission infrastructure that carries critical information essential for secure and efficient utility operations.
  • EXFO's optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) fibre monitoring units are being deployed at key nodes on the fibre optic network to monitor its optical transmission characteristics and measure its health and condition.
  • Our remote, proactive fibre testing and monitoring solution provides complete visibility across the fibre network, with capabilities to predict and detect potential outages in real time.
  • We are therefore exploring new ways to monitor and model fibre health and its evolution over time to enable optimised planning of refurbishment and replacement interventions," said Tom Charton, Senior Innovation Engineer at the National Grid.

Ethernet Alliance Champions Multivendor Interoperability for the HPC Community in the Open Standards Pavilion at SC22

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022
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Hosting a kiosk in the Open Standards Pavilion (booth 2840) at SC22 in Dallas, TX, November 14-17, 2022, the Ethernet Alliance will be promoting the commercial and end user benefits of multivendor interoperability needed to further HPC acceleration.

Key Points: 
  • Hosting a kiosk in the Open Standards Pavilion (booth 2840) at SC22 in Dallas, TX, November 14-17, 2022, the Ethernet Alliance will be promoting the commercial and end user benefits of multivendor interoperability needed to further HPC acceleration.
  • Member companies participating in the Ethernet Alliance kiosk in the SC22 Open Standards Pavilion include Amphenol, EXFO, The Siemon Company, TE Connectivity, and Teledyne LeCroy.
  • The Ethernet Alliance takes Ethernet standards to market by supporting activities that span from incubation of new Ethernet technologies to interoperability demonstrations and education.
  • We are happy to be participating with the Ethernet Alliance at SC22 this year to showcase Teledynes solutions for HPC in these environments.

25GS-PON continues to gain global traction with service providers and vendor community

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Monday, October 17, 2022
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This is a key development as 25GS-PON technology continues to mature, verifying that equipment, products, and systems from different companies function and seamlessly communicate as required by the 25GS-PON specification.

Key Points: 
  • This is a key development as 25GS-PON technology continues to mature, verifying that equipment, products, and systems from different companies function and seamlessly communicate as required by the 25GS-PON specification.
  • The Broadband Forum has agreed to start work on an interoperability test specification and a YANG data model for 25GS-PON.
  • BBF isthe communications industrys leading open standards development organization focused on accelerating broadband innovation, standards, and ecosystem development.
  • 25GS-PON meets the needs of the mobile 5G era and large-scale enterprises, providing communications service providers with the most cost-effective and timely evolution path for PON fiber technology.

EXFO to Offer Cloud-Native Service Assurance on AWS

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Monday, October 3, 2022
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"We look forward to continued work with AWS to help ensure that 5G and private network service providers have ultra-fast, ultra-reliable connections for emerging 5G services."

Key Points: 
  • "We look forward to continued work with AWS to help ensure that 5G and private network service providers have ultra-fast, ultra-reliable connections for emerging 5G services."
  • The EXFO solution running on AWS will offer service providers segmented and full-stack visibility into 5G service and network cloud performance, correlate network performance with QoE and QoS indicators, and accelerate troubleshooting efforts to resolve any network faults.
  • In conjunction with AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Snowball, the EXFO solution will also enable service providers to cost-effectively optimize 5G cloud-based service assurance strategies and manage performance of virtual workloads.
  • These AWS environments include Kubernetes-based deployments through Amazon EKS Anywhere, over different AWS service options such as AWS Regions, AWS Local Zones, AWS Wavelength for MEC, AWS Outposts, and AWS Snowball for 5G private network environments.

EXFO accelerates 'lab to live' for next-generation optics with new, innovative test solutions

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Thursday, September 15, 2022
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QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EXFO, the communications industry's test, monitoring and analytics experts, today announced availability of a next-generation continuously tunable laser -- the first in a new suite of tunable lasers designed to deliver cost-optimized testing of transceivers and optical components in high-volume manufacturing. The T200S tunable laser is part of EXFO's line-up of innovative, next-generation solutions that will be showcased during ECOC 2022, the premiere manufacturing, design, and research trade show upcoming in Basel, Switzerland Sept. 18-22.

Key Points: 
  • EXFO's new T200S tunable laser is half the size and operates 2x as fast as previous tunable laser models.
  • EXFO is unique in the industry, offering both passive and active component testing.
  • Testing module for coherent optics (CFP2-DCO): This module covers testing needs for 400/800GbE and next-generation transceivers, leveraging EXFO's open transceiver system (OTS).
  • EXFO develops smarter test, monitoring and analytics solutions for the global communications industry.

Ethernet Alliance Lights Up ECOC 2022 With Cutting-Edge Interoperability Demonstration

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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The Ethernet Alliance , a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today unveiled details of its multivendor interoperability demonstration at the 2022 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) .

Key Points: 
  • The Ethernet Alliance , a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today unveiled details of its multivendor interoperability demonstration at the 2022 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) .
  • Representing a diverse array of industry pacesetters, this years Ethernet Alliance ECOC interoperability demo is the centerpiece of its interactive exhibit.
  • The Ethernet Alliance interoperability demonstration at ECOC 2022 further highlights the interdependencies of the Ethernet ecosystem and the need for heightened specification conformance from all its participants.
  • This years Ethernet Alliance demonstration at ECOC brings together an abundance of products and testing solutions that showcases interoperability and test solutions for 25Gb/s up to 800Gb/s.

GIGACLEAR SELECTS EXFO FIBER MONITORING FOR RAPID NETWORK EXPANSION

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Monday, September 12, 2022
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QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EXFO, the communications industry's test, monitoring and analytics experts, today announced that leading rural UK ISP Gigaclear has selected EXFO's remote fiber testing and monitoring solution to support Gigaclear's ambitious expansion plans. EXFO's technology will allow the ISP to ensure "first time right" deployment to reduce fault finding and truck rolls during operation, and rapid fault identification once in service, from just a few strategic, central locations within its network.

Key Points: 
  • Gigaclear's mission is to take fiber further to rural towns and villages as the first fiber provider in those locations.
  • We are pleased to be adopting EXFO's centralized test system as our primary method of network assurance in our next-generation network areas," said James Harrison, Chief Engineer, Gigaclear.
  • "Combined with our proprietary and tightly integrated test and network data management systems, EXFO's fiber monitoring technology and iOLM test units ensure our planned network is built accurately and to the quality standards we expect.
  • EXFO's remote fiber testing and monitoring solution is based on fixed OTDR test equipment placed at strategic central locations across the network.

Global RF Tunable Filter Market (2022 to 2027) - Featuring EXFO, Kent Optronics and Micron Optics Among Others

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Thursday, September 8, 2022
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Market dynamics are forces that impact the prices and behaviors of the Global RF Tunable Filter Market stakeholders.

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  • Market dynamics are forces that impact the prices and behaviors of the Global RF Tunable Filter Market stakeholders.
  • The report presents a detailed Ansoff matrix analysis for the Global RF Tunable Filter Market.
  • The report analyses the Global RF Tunable Filter Market using the Ansoff Matrix to provide the best approaches a company can take to improve its market position.
  • The report offers a comprehensive evaluation of the Global RF Tunable Filter Market.

OIF Members to Showcase Multivendor Interoperability for Critical Networking Technologies at ECOC 2022

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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OIF will host the largest global interoperability showcase at OIFs booth, #701, during ECOC 2022 , September 19-21, in Basel, Switzerland.

Key Points: 
  • OIF will host the largest global interoperability showcase at OIFs booth, #701, during ECOC 2022 , September 19-21, in Basel, Switzerland.
  • OIFs 400ZR project is proving successful in facilitating new and simplified architectures for high bandwidth inter-data center interconnects and promoting interoperability among coherent optical module manufacturers.
  • Multiple live demonstrations featuring interoperability amongst 14 participating members prove the critical role OIF serves as well as the developing supplier ecosystem.
  • OIF, where the optical networking industrys interoperability work gets done, is leading the charge on 224G hardware interconnection application spaces and definitions, unveiling publicly at ECOC the first live 224G demo.