BT to triple investment in fiber optic cable

BT Group, the largest British phone company, said Tuesday that it would suspend a share buyback program to triple its spending on fiber optic lines for high-speed Internet services. BT said it would stop buying back its stock July 31 to help pay for the £1.5 billion, or $3 billion, investment in a service that would be available in as many as 10 million homes by 2012.

NEC, Sumitomo Elec to buy cable firm from Longreach

Japan’s NEC Corp and Sumitomo Electric Industries said on Tuesday they would buy a Japanese submarine cable maker from an investment fund managed by the Longreach Group to secure a stable supply of optical cables. NEC, which is betting on growing demand for fiber-optic connections, plans to take about 75 percent of OCC Corp’s holding company, with Sumitomo Electric taking the remaining 25 percent. Both firms declined to comment on the price of the deal, to be completed later in July. Longreach bought restructuring OCC from the state-owned turnaround fund Industrial Revitalization Corp of Japan in 2006. In 2004, the IRCJ had invested 1.5 billion yen in OCC, as well as taken on its 12.1 billion yen in debt, of which 8.08 billion yen was forgiven by creditors. OCC had sales of 17.5 billion yen in the year ended in March and is now in the black, NEC spokesman Takehiko Kato said. NEC, which holds a 20 percent share of the global undersea cable market, hopes the acquisition will help it expand its cable sales to Tyco and Alcatel-Lucent , which each hold about a 40 percent market share.

BT to lay fiber-optic cable from Orkney to Thurso

BT is laying a fiber-optic submarine cable between Orkney and the Scottish mainland. The 70-kilometer cable will run from Skaill Bay in Orkney, under the Pentland Firth, to Dunnet Bay, about five miles east of Thurso. BT has awarded the contract to independent marine engineering company Global Marine Systems, which began installing the cable last week. Weather permitting, the work should take around three weeks. Global Marine’s cableship CS Sovereign is using its submersible plough and remotely operated vehicle systems to install the cable up to one meter below the seabed.

Foxcom Company Introduction

Foxcom is a leading provider (manufacturer) of fiber optic transmission solutions for the professional satellite, broadcast, and MDU (multi-dwelling unit) markets. Foxcom designs, manufactures, and markets a broad range of fiber optic transmission systems for point to point and point to multipoint fiber optic technology. Foxcom has a new line of products specifically designed for high speed data solutions completing our line of products and allowing our customers the ability to offer true “triple play” solutions. Foxcom’s video and data product lines are not mutually exclusive allowing our customers the flexibility of offering multiple types of video transmission (satellite and CATV) with our offering.

Sigma Designs Announce CoAir Ultrawideband Chipset with integrated wireless, coax and gigabit ethernet

Sigma Designs a leader in digital media processing and wireless system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for consumer electronics today announces CoAir™, the industry’s first Ultrawideband (UWB) and WiMedia™ standard-based chipset with combined wireless, coax and Ethernet capabilities. The company is launching its new CoAir solution and presenting on a panel titled “Wireless Networking: Fun without Cords” at the CONNECTIONS conference, June 24-26, in Santa Clara, California. Demonstrations of the CoAir solution are available in the Santa Clara Conference Center, Meeting Room #212.

AdderLink X-DVI KVM sends DVI / USB over single CAT6 cable

Adder, a leading developer of KVM switches, extenders and KVM over IP solutions, today announced the launch of the AdderLink X-DVI. The AdderLink X-DVI is the world’s first extender to send both USB and DVI signals over the same CAT6 cable. The X-DVI is ideal for users that require superior, no compromise video resolutions for use in industries such as medical and broadcast and for applications such as graphic design, drafting and animation. The AdderLink X-DVI will support the extension of USB keyboards and mice and high definition video over distances up to 165 ft.

Fushi Copperweld announces Vice President of Commercial Development Transmitter/Receiver System

Fushi Copperweld,Inc. the leading global manufacturer of bimetallic wire used in a variety of telecommunication, utility, automotive and other electrical applications, today announced the hiring of Dwight Berry to the newly created position of Vice President of Commercial Development, effective immediately.

Eurocabel-1 and OFS celebrate one million kilometers optical fiber business partnership

Eurocabel-1, a leading Russian optical cable manufacturer, today announces that its business partnership with world-leading designer and manufacturer of optical fiber, OFS, has reached an impressive milestone in optical fiber purchased. The quantity of optical fiber purchased by Eurocabel-1 from OFS has now exceeded a stunning 1 million kilometers.

Fibre optic line to wire Nass to world

A NISGA’A telecommunications company is going to install a fibre optic line up to the Nass Valley, opening the area up to the kind of high speed information access to the world that is needed to support and grow its economy. enTel has already installed 250km of fibre optic line through three communities in the Nass Valley but now needs a line south to hook up to a Telus connection to make huge amounts of broadband width available to businesses, homes, schools, health care facilities and government agencies.

The global launch of Molex’s ModLink™ Advanced Plug and Play range

Molex, a leading structured cabling system manufacturer, is pleased to announce the expansion and global launch of the ModLinkTM Advanced Fibre Optic Plug and Play product line. Now in its fourth generation, the ModLink Plug and Play fibre optic family of solutions was one of the first plug and play solutions to be introduced to the industry. The new range will be available throughout the UK via Molex distribution from May 2008.