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FTTP Shootout - Active Ethernet Vs PON
Aug 2006
Triple play rollouts are one of the bright spots in the global telecom industry. Carriers and municipalities that announce plans to rollout triple play (voice, video and data) services are faced...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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Whitepapers
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions
Apr 2013
Storage systems today must match agility with diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise's changing needs. In their review, Silverton Consulting ranks the NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN,...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions
Dec 2012
Storage systems today must match agility with diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise’s changing needs. In their review, Silverton Consulting ranks the NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN,...
Provided by NetApp
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Webcasts
Transforming the Data Center with Unified Fabric
May 2008
Is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) really the long-awaited breakthrough that will transparently integrate your network servers and storage, or is it simply the latest industry hype? Get the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
A Survey on Radio-and-Fiber FiWi Network Architectures
Apr 2011
The ultimate goal of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) networks is the convergence of various optical and wireless technologies under a single infrastructure in order to take advantage of their complementary...
Provided by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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White Papers
How to Build a SAN Guide: Convert Any Windows Server Into Shared Storage
Aug 2011
This How To Build A SAN guide provides simple step-by-step instructions for building your own Storage Area Network (SAN) or centralized, networked storage by using standard off-the-shelf x86...
Provided by Starwind Software
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White Papers
Characterization of Fused-Silica Optical Fibers Delivery Highpeak Power YAG Laser Beam
Dec 2009
The optical fiber delivery laser power technology in laser flexible manufacturing system is introduced. The characteristics of optical fiber delivery Nd:YAG pulsed laser power through multimode...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Surviving and Thriving in the Customer-Driven Age
Jan 2009
The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools.
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
HP ProCurve, the Network of Choice for Cabot Financial
May 2008
Cabot Financial is the pioneer and market leader for consumer debt purchase and collection in the UK. When Cabot Financial moved into a new �5 million building, the installation of a resilient,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
ASFOM Provides Straightforward Solution
Feb 2011
Tianjin is located in northern coastal China, the customer needed to network the matrix systems within those centers in order to share all the video sources. The available infrastructure offered...
Provided by KBC Networks
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Case Studies
KBC Video Units Save Space & Fibre
Feb 2011
The North Middlesex University Hospital was to provide space and fibre-efficient transmission system that would allow the engineering team to relocate the CCTV control room from one of the old...
Provided by KBC Networks
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Case Studies
ASFOM Provides Resilient Solution
Feb 2011
Barox Kommunikation with cabling distances stretching to 10km, and the requirement for a real-time video system with minimal delay from camera to control room, transmission distance and optical...
Provided by KBC Networks
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White Papers
40G to 100G - What's All the Fuss About Optical Gigabits?
Mar 2008
Preventing a worldwide bandwidth crisis hangs by a thread - a fiber-optic thread thinner than a human hair yet filled with untapped potential. And, that potential within each tiny fiber-optic...
Provided by Nortel Networks
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White Papers
Cisco Delivers Enterprise-Class Fibre Channel Blade Switch Solution
May 2009
The blade server market is the fastest growing segment of the server market, with a year-to-year growth rate of 30 percent according to IDC. Server consolidation and virtualization are primary...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Leveraging 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center
May 2008
Speed increase in Brocade switching platforms is one of many advantages from Brocade's next generation ASIC family. Higher speed in the data center brings the immediate benefit of...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Advanced File Sharing and Management in the Dell NX4
Jun 2009
The Dell NX4 Network Attached Storage (NAS) device goes beyond simple file servers to provide advanced features ranging from point-in-time snapshots and replication to deduplication, file-level...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Getting Started With VMware vSphere and Emulex/Cisco SANs
Jun 2009
The combination of VMware vSphere and Fibre Channel SANs provides substantial CapEx and OpEx savings. Cisco and Emulex are leaders in Fibre Channel technologies and provide scalable,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Dueling Directors
Jun 2009
Fibre Channel (FC) as a technology has been relatively static over the past 10 years, and FC switch innovation has been incremental - from bandwidth support and additional features to increased...
Provided by TechTarget
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White Papers
Eternus CS Virtual Tape for Dynamic Infrastructures: Intelligent Data Protection
Jun 2009
ETERNUS CS supports a huge variety of different platforms with host channels of different types, including standard Fibre Channel, ESCON and FICON. Different channel types can be mixed in a single...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Building the Fibre Nation: Progress and Policies
Jun 2008
There is no longer any debate about if or why fibre should be deployed in the access network; rather the issue is now focused on "How" and "When". Indeed, fibre - a transformational technology...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
Fiber Channel Over Ethernet: Enabling Server I/O Consolidation
Feb 2009
The development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) opens the door to the real possibility of transporting more than one I/O traffic flow over a Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), also called a...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Integrated Optical Wireless Network for Next Generation Wireless Systems
Jun 2009
This paper suggests a modified millimeter wave wireless system using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique, integrated with optical fiber as a feeder network. Here it has...
Provided by Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Realization of Optical OFDM System Using Frequency Combs and Optical Modulators
May 2012
At both the ends of transmitter and receiver the realization of terabit per second high speed and high spectral-efficiency optical transmission is required. This paper describes the use of much...
Provided by Serials Publiations
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Whitepapers
Signal Intensity in Optical Fibers Under the Influence of Dispersion and Non Linearity
Nov 2011
Focus on development of broadband optical communication systems is incredible since it offers combination of wide bandwidth and low losses unmatched by any other transmission medium, but group...
Provided by Serials Publiations
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White Papers
Fabric Convergence With Lossless Ethernet and Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
Dec 2008
As the functionality of Ethernet continues to increase, its value as a data network continues to expand. The next generation of Ethernet includes enhancements delivered with DCB that are ideally...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) - The Path to I/O Consolidation
Nov 2008
The paper is an overview of I/O consolidation and unification. It focuses on 10GbE and the Data Center Bridging standard; encapsulating Fibre Channel into Ethernet; and the path to end-to-end...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Upgrading to 8Gb Fibre Channel
Jun 2008
It is natural for SANs to evolve to 8Gb Fibre Channel. This paper describes the considerations involved in a 8Gb SAN infrastructure upgrade and focuses on the key benefits an organization can...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Unified Fabrics: Transform the Data Center Infrastructure With Cisco Nexus Series
May 2009
The Cisco Nexus family of products gives data center designers the opportunity to transform data center infrastructure from an Isolated Fabric Topology (IFT) to a Unified Fabric topology (UFT)....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Case Study: Wireless Backhaul Optimization
Jan 2010
A Tier 1 mobile carrier was operating a statewide network of more than 1,000 cell sites interconnecting with 2 primary Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs). The challenge was to reduce leased network...
Provided by CFN Services
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Webcasts
WaterWorld Webinar
Jan 2010
Steve Klepper, from the City of Corpus Christi, and Steve Rosenblatt, from IBM, will share how the largest city on the Texas coast regained control of their water management, avoiding the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
WHEELNET: A Hybrid Ring/Star Architecture for Local Area Networks
Dec 2008
The use of optical fiber as a transmission medium in computer Local Area Networks (LAN) has lead to the design of new protocols to take advantage of the high bandwidth of fiber. Many of these new...
Provided by Oklahoma City University
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White Papers
RoFnet - Reconfigurable Radio Over Fiber Network Architecture Overview
Jan 2009
This paper introduces the basic operational concepts of the RoFnet - reconfigurable radio over fiber network, which is a project supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology....
Provided by National Institute of Telecommunications
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White Papers
Open Photonics DWDM Systems Deployment Within the CESNET2 Network, With Emphasis to Single Fibre Bidirectional Operation
Dec 2008
This paper describes an experience with the deployment of DWDM system, based on open photonic devices family called CzechLight, within the CESNET2 network optical infrastructure in 2008. Emphasis...
Provided by CESNET
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Whitepapers
Performance of Regular Low Density Parity Check Codes Over Hybrid Optical/RF Channels
Oct 2008
A hybrid channel, consisting of a Free Space Optical (FSO) link and a parallel Radio Frequency (RF) link, is considered. Information bits are first encoded by a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
QLogic Adapters and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches: Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Design Guide
Jan 2010
This paper provides design guidelines for implementing a unified data center fabric using Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and QLogic second-generation Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). Unified...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel WDM networking
Jan 2010
This paper describes a SAN and LAN Extension Solution based on embedded WDM SFP transceivers from SmartOptics. An embedded WDM solution offers best price, reliability and simplicity compared to...
Provided by SmartOptics
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White Papers
The Benefit of Migrating From 4Gb to 8Gb Fibre Channel
Sep 2008
IT applications have to operate at the speed of business, which is increasing almost daily. The desire to increase storage I/Os per second (IOPs) and throughput (MB/sec.) reflect the benefit of a...
Provided by Xyratex
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Case Studies
Credit Union Deploys SAN to Meet Disaster Recovery Objectives
Dec 2008
Keesler Federal Credit Union (KFCU) is the largest credit union in Mississippi, with over US$1.5 billion in assets. Keesler Federal Credit Union (KFCU) wanted to establish disaster recovery...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Com Network Upgrades Will Help Revolutionize Radiology
Jan 2010
Newfoundland, 75 miles (180 Km) northwest of the provincial capital of St. John's, Peninsulas Health Care (PHCC) provides vital medical services to 57,000 residents in 161 communities in the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Radiology Services Provider Creates Highly Available Environment
May 2010
NightHawk Radiology Services wanted to ensure availability of critical healthcare service and minimize data center costs. The challenge was to avoid service disruption during transition. NightHawk...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
The Research on Dispersion Control of Dispersion Unshifted Single-Mode Optical Fiber
Mar 2013
The dispersion unshifted optical fiber is in favor of communications construction project, because of its mature manufacturing technique, low loss, large bandwidth, transmission distance, low...
Provided by Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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Whitepapers
An Efficient Wavelength Variation Approach for Bend Sensing in Single Mode-Multimode-Single Mode Optical Fiber Sensors
Sep 2012
Several aspects of the SMS edge filters have been investigated, including the effect of bending the SMS fiber cores due to fabrication tolerances, polarization dependence, and temperature...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Whitepapers
Microcontroller Based Mobile Platform with Fiber Optic Sensors
Mar 2013
In the present paper, a mobile platform with optical fiber sensor was designed, built and tested. The IC 89C51RD2 was used as controller on the platform. The platform was designed with two powered...
Provided by International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE)
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Whitepapers
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions
Apr 2013
Storage systems today must match agility with diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise's changing needs. In their review, Silverton Consulting ranks the NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN,...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
MATLAB Simulink Simulation Platform for Photonic Transmission Systems
May 2009
High speed and ultra-high capacity optical communications have emerged as the essential techniques for backbone global information transmission networks. As the bit rate of the transmission system...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
A Survey on Radio Over Fiber (RoF) for Wireless Broadband Access Technologies
Feb 2013
In this paper presents a survey on RoF for Wireless Broadband Access technology like WiMAX (Fixed and Mobile). RoF is considered to achieve an effective delivery of wireless and baseband signal,...
Provided by SCSSM
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Whitepapers
Available Bandwidth Measurement of Campus Wide Optical Fiber Network Using Packet Pair Technique: A Study of Himachal Pradesh University
Mar 2013
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important role in computer networking and networks are the major component of ICT. Available bandwidth is an important bandwidth metric used...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Novel Solution to The Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem in Transparent Optical Networks
Mar 2010
The authors present an evolutionary programming algorithm for solving the Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment (DRWA) problem in optical Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks under...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Submarine Optical Cables as a Key Component in Undersea Telecommunications: A Review
Dec 2012
Communication is playing a vital role in the life of human beings from the ancient time. The need to communicate creates a lot of advancement in communication system from time to time. Now a day...
Provided by International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
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Whitepapers
Control of Micro Aerial Vehicle Using Vision Based System in an Unknown Environment
Mar 2012
In this paper, the authors deals with the surveillance of an indoor unknown environment using a micro aerial vehicle. The project describes the methodology behind the path plan and the obstacle...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Whitepapers
Improving Hybrid FSO/RF Network Reliability Through Transceiver Reconfiguration
Nov 2012
Despite the increasing popularity of Free-Space Optics (FSO) in wireless mesh networks, reliability is still a major concern. Due to the strong dependence of FSO link availability on weather...
Provided by George Washington University
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Whitepapers
Multi-Level Mapping for Long Haul Coherent Optical OFDM Systems
Dec 2012
Recently, Coherent Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM) has been seen as a potential candidate for long haul optical transmission. It is due to OFDM technique that was...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Whitepapers
Identification of Cracks in a Structure Using Fibre Optic Sensors
Dec 2012
Fibre optic sensors modulate some of the features in the light wave used in the optical fibre. The features such as intensity and phase modulation are the most commonly features used in an optical...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Whitepapers
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions
Dec 2012
Storage systems today must match agility with diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise’s changing needs. In their review, Silverton Consulting ranks the NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN,...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Analysis of ONT Buffer and Power Management Performances for XG-PON Cyclic Sleep Mode
Nov 2012
In a 10-Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (XGPON) system, a power management function such as cyclic sleep mode can be implemented to increase energy efficiency of an Optical Network...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Dynamic Bulk Provisioning Framework for Concurrent Optimization in PCE-Based WDM Networks
Jul 2012
A centralized network control and management plane, such as the one based on a Path Computation Element (PCE), is highly beneficial in terms of resource optimization in wavelength division...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Evaluation of Post-Fault Restoration Strategies in Multi-Domain Networks
Dec 2011
Although, multi-domain survivability is a major concern for operators, few studies have considered the design of post-fault restoration schemes. This paper proposes two such strategies, based upon...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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Whitepapers
Just-in-Time Scheduling for Multichannel EPONs
May 2008
The authors investigate Optical Network Unit (ONU) grant scheduling techniques for multichannel Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs), such as Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) EPONs. They...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Numerical Analysis of Raised Cosine Sampled Chirped Bragg Grating for Dispersion Compensation in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Systems
Jan 2012
In this paper, a numerical investigation of raised-cosine Sampled Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating (SCFG) has been presented. This multi channel filter is modeled by coupled mode theory and simulated...
Provided by NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Whitepapers
Cavity Dynamics of a Figure of Eight Fiber Laser
May 2008
Pulse propagation in a birefringent medium carries due weightage and importance in passive modelocking of fiber lasers. The authors carried out study of nonlinear effects in birefringent medium by...
Provided by NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Whitepapers
Radiation Pattern Synthesis From Various Shaped Reflectors Base on PO and PTD Methods for Point-to-Multipoint Applications
Jun 2009
In this paper, the authors present the shaped reflector antenna by using backscattering technique to achieve the completely broad-beam radiation pattern. The radiation synthesis method for shaped...
Provided by Suraj Thakoerdien
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Whitepapers
Analysis of Opposing Stream Effect on the Non-Uniform Optical Fiber Communication Lines
May 2009
There are an enough publications in analysis of optical signals and waves distribution conditions in optical fiber communications lines with heterogeneities. In this paper, the authors define the...
Provided by Al-Balqa Applied University
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Whitepapers
Simulation for Different Order Solitons in Optical Fibers and the Behaviors of Kink and Antikink Solitons
Mar 2008
Solitons are obtained by interaction effect of nonlinear effect and dispersion, so that nonlinear differential equation, KDV, is indicated to this matter. To understand how solitons are created...
Provided by Razer Freeman
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Whitepapers
Simulation and Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Bragg Gratings
Jul 2009
The authors have simulated the behaviors of nonlinear Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs). The generalized nonlinear equations governing these structures are solved by a method which uses a Fourier series...
Provided by Shiraz Technologies
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Whitepapers
A Novel Offline PLI-RWA and Hybrid Node Architecture for Zero Blocking and Time Delay Reduction in Translucent Optical WDM Networks
Oct 2012
In this paper, The authors contrive a model that underpins the offline Physical Layer Impairment-Routing and Wavelength Assignment (PLI-RWA) issue in translucent networks. The authors introduce an...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
An Analysis of 10 Gbits/s Optical Transmission System using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)
Jul 2012
In this paper, the authors discussed on a simulation of optical transmission system in optical fiber. The optical fiber is always used in telecommunication system because of its characteristics...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Bit Error Rate Tester for 10 Gb/s Fibre Optic Link
Nov 2010
The bit error rate tester suitable for operation in 10 Gb/s fibre optic links is described in the paper. The BER tester was built from commercially available components. Generation and reception...
Provided by AGH University of Science and Technology
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Whitepapers
Are Carrier Transport Effects Important for Chirp Modeling of Quantum-Well Lasers?
Nov 2010
The Quantum-, or Multi-Quantum-Well (QW, or MQW) structure introduced to the semiconductor laser design implies some new phenomena in the device operation, when compared with the bulk laser...
Provided by AGH University of Science and Technology
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Whitepapers
Performance Analysis of OFDM-PSK System for Optimization of Fiber Optic Dispersion
Jan 2011
In modern communication technology such as in optical fiber communication system, efficient utilization of communication resources (bandwidth and power) is the key challenge to meet the high bit...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
A Communication Theoretical Modeling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Optical Nanoreceivers and Broadcast Power Allocation
Mar 2012
Carbon NanoTube (CNT) with its ground-breaking properties is a promising candidate for future nanoscale communication networks. CNTs can be used as on-chip optical antenna for wireless...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
New Approximations to the Lognormal Characteristic Function
Nov 2012
Computation of the log normal Characteristic Function (CF) is required in analysis of many wireless communication systems. No closed-form expression exists for the log normal CF. In this paper,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
On Path Selection and Wavelength Assignment in Inter-Domain Lightpath Provisioning
Nov 2012
Despite the research advances in intra-domain lightpath provisioning in WDM networks, efficient and practical schemes for path computation and resource advertisement in multi-domain mesh networks...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Comparison of Experimental Investigation on Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer Bridge Decks Subjected to Static Loading with Analytical Evaluation Using ABAQUS
Mar 2012
This paper presents the details of experimental and analytical investigations carried out on Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer bridge (GFRP) decks subjected to static loading. The experimental model...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Self-Phase Modulation Based Wavelength Conversion Using Different Types of Fibers
Apr 2012
The field of nonlinear optics has continued to grow at a tremendous rate since its inception in 1961 and has proven to be a nearly inexhaustible source of new phenomena and optical techniques. In...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Temporal Interpolation in Mobile and Internet Video Services
Nov 2009
The inter-frame prediction modified algorithm with the motion compensation based on the multi-resolution wavelet analysis is proposed. Segmentation and optical flow tracking is used for predicting...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Measurement of the Microwave Permittivity of Polymer Materials for High-Speed Optical Modulator Design
Nov 2010
Metropolitan access communications systems are currently looking on high data rate capabilities. Moreover, optical networks are and will be undoubtedly used. Depending on requested data rates and...
Provided by TELFOR
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Whitepapers
Autonomously Tuned High Q MOEM Ringresonators for WDM Optical Network Applications
Jul 2009
The beam forming network offers several advantages when implemented in the optical domain. The major benefits of phased-array antenna systems are their high gain and possibility of electronic beam...
Provided by TechniaJOURNAL
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Whitepapers
Capacity and delay analysis in Passive Optical Networks (PONs) - A review
Apr 2012
The dramatic increase of internet users and development of new high volume internet applications has a profound impact on design of Next Generation Passive Optical Network (NG-PON). Today, most of...
Provided by IPA Journals
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Whitepapers
Line-of-sight Visible Light Communication System Design and Demonstration
May 2010
With the emergence of high lumen output white lighting LEDs, visible light communication has become an intriguing technology to realize low cost data transmission in conjunction with lighting. In...
Provided by University of Calgary
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Whitepapers
Sparse Representation of Dense Motion Vector Fields for Lossless Compression of 4-D Medical CT Data
Sep 2011
The authors present a new method for data-adaptive compression of dense vector fields in dynamic medical volume data. Conventional block-based motion compensation used for temporal prediction in...
Provided by EURASIP
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White Papers
How to Build a SAN Guide: Convert Any Windows Server Into Shared Storage
Aug 2011
This How To Build A SAN guide provides simple step-by-step instructions for building your own Storage Area Network (SAN) or centralized, networked storage by using standard off-the-shelf x86...
Provided by Starwind Software
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White Papers
Spectrum Management in Cellular Network Using Cognitive ROF
Aug 2011
Radio-over-Fibre (RoF) is an optical communication technique based on the transmission of standard wireless radio signals though optical Fibre in their native format. The optical fibre provides a...
Provided by SHIATS
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White Papers
A Survey on Radio-and-Fiber FiWi Network Architectures
Apr 2011
The ultimate goal of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) networks is the convergence of various optical and wireless technologies under a single infrastructure in order to take advantage of their complementary...
Provided by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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White Papers
Surviving and Thriving in the Customer-Driven Age
Jan 2009
The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools.
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
HP ProCurve, the Network of Choice for Cabot Financial
May 2008
Cabot Financial is the pioneer and market leader for consumer debt purchase and collection in the UK. When Cabot Financial moved into a new �5 million building, the installation of a resilient,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
ASFOM Provides Straightforward Solution
Feb 2011
Tianjin is located in northern coastal China, the customer needed to network the matrix systems within those centers in order to share all the video sources. The available infrastructure offered...
Provided by KBC Networks
-
Case Studies
KBC Video Units Save Space & Fibre
Feb 2011
The North Middlesex University Hospital was to provide space and fibre-efficient transmission system that would allow the engineering team to relocate the CCTV control room from one of the old...
Provided by KBC Networks
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Case Studies
ASFOM Provides Resilient Solution
Feb 2011
Barox Kommunikation with cabling distances stretching to 10km, and the requirement for a real-time video system with minimal delay from camera to control room, transmission distance and optical...
Provided by KBC Networks
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White Papers
40G to 100G - What's All the Fuss About Optical Gigabits?
Mar 2008
Preventing a worldwide bandwidth crisis hangs by a thread - a fiber-optic thread thinner than a human hair yet filled with untapped potential. And, that potential within each tiny fiber-optic...
Provided by Nortel Networks
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White Papers
Cisco Delivers Enterprise-Class Fibre Channel Blade Switch Solution
May 2009
The blade server market is the fastest growing segment of the server market, with a year-to-year growth rate of 30 percent according to IDC. Server consolidation and virtualization are primary...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Leveraging 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center
May 2008
Speed increase in Brocade switching platforms is one of many advantages from Brocade's next generation ASIC family. Higher speed in the data center brings the immediate benefit of...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Advanced File Sharing and Management in the Dell NX4
Jun 2009
The Dell NX4 Network Attached Storage (NAS) device goes beyond simple file servers to provide advanced features ranging from point-in-time snapshots and replication to deduplication, file-level...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Getting Started With VMware vSphere and Emulex/Cisco SANs
Jun 2009
The combination of VMware vSphere and Fibre Channel SANs provides substantial CapEx and OpEx savings. Cisco and Emulex are leaders in Fibre Channel technologies and provide scalable,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Dueling Directors
Jun 2009
Fibre Channel (FC) as a technology has been relatively static over the past 10 years, and FC switch innovation has been incremental - from bandwidth support and additional features to increased...
Provided by TechTarget
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White Papers
Eternus CS Virtual Tape for Dynamic Infrastructures: Intelligent Data Protection
Jun 2009
ETERNUS CS supports a huge variety of different platforms with host channels of different types, including standard Fibre Channel, ESCON and FICON. Different channel types can be mixed in a single...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Building the Fibre Nation: Progress and Policies
Jun 2008
There is no longer any debate about if or why fibre should be deployed in the access network; rather the issue is now focused on "How" and "When". Indeed, fibre - a transformational technology...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
Fiber Channel Over Ethernet: Enabling Server I/O Consolidation
Feb 2009
The development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) opens the door to the real possibility of transporting more than one I/O traffic flow over a Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), also called a...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Integrated Optical Wireless Network for Next Generation Wireless Systems
Jun 2009
This paper suggests a modified millimeter wave wireless system using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique, integrated with optical fiber as a feeder network. Here it has...
Provided by Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
-
Whitepapers
Realization of Optical OFDM System Using Frequency Combs and Optical Modulators
May 2012
At both the ends of transmitter and receiver the realization of terabit per second high speed and high spectral-efficiency optical transmission is required. This paper describes the use of much...
Provided by Serials Publiations
-
Whitepapers
Signal Intensity in Optical Fibers Under the Influence of Dispersion and Non Linearity
Nov 2011
Focus on development of broadband optical communication systems is incredible since it offers combination of wide bandwidth and low losses unmatched by any other transmission medium, but group...
Provided by Serials Publiations
-
White Papers
Fabric Convergence With Lossless Ethernet and Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
Dec 2008
As the functionality of Ethernet continues to increase, its value as a data network continues to expand. The next generation of Ethernet includes enhancements delivered with DCB that are ideally...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) - The Path to I/O Consolidation
Nov 2008
The paper is an overview of I/O consolidation and unification. It focuses on 10GbE and the Data Center Bridging standard; encapsulating Fibre Channel into Ethernet; and the path to end-to-end...
Provided by NetApp
-
White Papers
Upgrading to 8Gb Fibre Channel
Jun 2008
It is natural for SANs to evolve to 8Gb Fibre Channel. This paper describes the considerations involved in a 8Gb SAN infrastructure upgrade and focuses on the key benefits an organization can...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Unified Fabrics: Transform the Data Center Infrastructure With Cisco Nexus Series
May 2009
The Cisco Nexus family of products gives data center designers the opportunity to transform data center infrastructure from an Isolated Fabric Topology (IFT) to a Unified Fabric topology (UFT)....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Case Study: Wireless Backhaul Optimization
Jan 2010
A Tier 1 mobile carrier was operating a statewide network of more than 1,000 cell sites interconnecting with 2 primary Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs). The challenge was to reduce leased network...
Provided by CFN Services
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Webcasts
WaterWorld Webinar
Jan 2010
Steve Klepper, from the City of Corpus Christi, and Steve Rosenblatt, from IBM, will share how the largest city on the Texas coast regained control of their water management, avoiding the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
WHEELNET: A Hybrid Ring/Star Architecture for Local Area Networks
Dec 2008
The use of optical fiber as a transmission medium in computer Local Area Networks (LAN) has lead to the design of new protocols to take advantage of the high bandwidth of fiber. Many of these new...
Provided by Oklahoma City University
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White Papers
RoFnet - Reconfigurable Radio Over Fiber Network Architecture Overview
Jan 2009
This paper introduces the basic operational concepts of the RoFnet - reconfigurable radio over fiber network, which is a project supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology....
Provided by National Institute of Telecommunications
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White Papers
Open Photonics DWDM Systems Deployment Within the CESNET2 Network, With Emphasis to Single Fibre Bidirectional Operation
Dec 2008
This paper describes an experience with the deployment of DWDM system, based on open photonic devices family called CzechLight, within the CESNET2 network optical infrastructure in 2008. Emphasis...
Provided by CESNET
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Whitepapers
Performance of Regular Low Density Parity Check Codes Over Hybrid Optical/RF Channels
Oct 2008
A hybrid channel, consisting of a Free Space Optical (FSO) link and a parallel Radio Frequency (RF) link, is considered. Information bits are first encoded by a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
QLogic Adapters and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches: Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Design Guide
Jan 2010
This paper provides design guidelines for implementing a unified data center fabric using Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and QLogic second-generation Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). Unified...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel WDM networking
Jan 2010
This paper describes a SAN and LAN Extension Solution based on embedded WDM SFP transceivers from SmartOptics. An embedded WDM solution offers best price, reliability and simplicity compared to...
Provided by SmartOptics
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White Papers
The Benefit of Migrating From 4Gb to 8Gb Fibre Channel
Sep 2008
IT applications have to operate at the speed of business, which is increasing almost daily. The desire to increase storage I/Os per second (IOPs) and throughput (MB/sec.) reflect the benefit of a...
Provided by Xyratex
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Case Studies
Credit Union Deploys SAN to Meet Disaster Recovery Objectives
Dec 2008
Keesler Federal Credit Union (KFCU) is the largest credit union in Mississippi, with over US$1.5 billion in assets. Keesler Federal Credit Union (KFCU) wanted to establish disaster recovery...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Com Network Upgrades Will Help Revolutionize Radiology
Jan 2010
Newfoundland, 75 miles (180 Km) northwest of the provincial capital of St. John's, Peninsulas Health Care (PHCC) provides vital medical services to 57,000 residents in 161 communities in the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Radiology Services Provider Creates Highly Available Environment
May 2010
NightHawk Radiology Services wanted to ensure availability of critical healthcare service and minimize data center costs. The challenge was to avoid service disruption during transition. NightHawk...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Hampshire Hotels & Resorts - A Dynamic Hospitality Enterprise
Dec 2008
Hampshire Hotels & Resorts, they were seeing a technology race among the top hotels, as they strive to deliver the best possible experience, while holding the line on costs. After meeting with...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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Whitepapers
Introduction to Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)
Apr 2010
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a new storage networking option based on industry standards, which is now being deployed in real world environments. This white paper provides an overview of...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 Enterprise Flash Drives With Microsoft SQL Server Databases
Jan 2009
This white paper examines deployments of SQL Server 2008 using enterprise Flash drives. It shows that Flash drives deliver vastly increased performance to the database application when compared to...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
A Self-Routing Switch Fabric Architecture on a Chip
Oct 2008
The authors present a new switch fabric architecture on a chip for the next generation link speed. The advances in CMOS technologies and optical technologies have changed the design constraints of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
