| Philip Hamlin Jr., self-taught inventor, dies at age 60 | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 3:08:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Electronics, engineering and an independent spirit seemed to run in the blood of Philip Hamlin Jr., a fiber-optics installation pioneer who helped lay glass cable everywhere from New York to Paris. His dad, Philip Hamlin, 89, installed Seattle's first cable-TV network in 1949 in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. And from a young age, Mr. Hamlin began taking apart clocks and other devices around home, trying to figure out how they worked. Mr. Hamlin died Wednesday from complications of type 2 diabetes. He was 60. His brother, Harry Hamlin of Seattle, said Mr. Hamlin managed to increase the boost of turbochargers while tinkering with cars, developed amateur rocket fuels -- "a process that involved inadvertently bombarding the city of Bremerton" when rockets he fired fell short of their intended destination in Puget Sound -- and was attempting to build a helicopter near the end of his life.... | |
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| | | Fiber Optics Offers New Capability at Reagan Test Site | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:10:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | A new undersea fiber optic cable from Kwajalein to Guam and with a direct link to the United States will enable U.S. Army at Kwajalein Atoll, Reagan Test Site, or USAKA/RTS, to distribute mission operations and personnel positions back to Huntsville, Ala. This initiative is scheduled to be completed March 2008. Located in the Republic of Marshall Islands, USAKA/RTSs principal mission areas are primarily ballistic missile defense testing and space surveillance operations. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/ARSTRAT is the Armys proponent for space and missile defense and is responsible for the operation of Reagan Test Site and other facilities located at Kwajalein Atoll. Equipment installed at the test site includes various tracking radars, stationary and mobile telemetry, optical recording equipment, and a secure intra-atoll fiber optic data network via submarine fiber optic cables.... | |
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| | | Edmund Optics Offers Robust, Versatile Half-Ball Lenses | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:08:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Edmund Optics is offering hemispherical lenses made from sapphire. The lenses are well-suited for a wide variety of applications, including use in fiber communications equipment, endoscopes, microscopes, optical pick-up devices, and laser measurement systems. The lenses are attractive for use in severe environments because they are made from sapphire. This hard, tough material is known for its ability to withstand exposure to harsh chemicals and extreme temperatures. Sapphire also features a high index of refraction and excellent broadband transmission characteristics. These half-ball lenses offer a very short back focal length, along with a flat surface that facilitates easy mounting. SOURCE: Edmund Industrial Optics .... | |
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| | | City talks fiber optics high speed | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:11:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Monticello is considering providing a cable service to residents, businesses, the hospital and maybe the schools. The placement of the high-speed fiber optics would be at no cost to those in the city limits. "The service would provide cable TV, telephone and high-speed Internet services for a cost saving targeted at 15 percent off what current costs are comparatively," said city council member and task force liaison Wayne Mayer. The idea is for a communitywide fiber optics network stemmed from a League of Minnesota Cities Symposium Mayer attended, where it was discussed how the different municipalities were implementing cable service. Fiber optics, small tubes made of glass about the size of a human strand of hair, have the capability of transmitting information at a higher rate of speed than copper wire, the cable used now in the city.... | |
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| | | Verizon FiOS TV Comes to Wellesley, Mass. | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:36:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | BOSTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon has introduced FiOS TV to consumers in Wellesley, making a broad range of programming choices and superior picture quality available to some 7,000 households. Wellesley is one of 23 Massachusetts communities where the company's new fiber-optic television service is being offered, delivered over the only all- digital, fiber network that is being made available, on a mass scale, to millions of individual homes and businesses. FiOS TV is also available in Acton, Andover, Belmont, Boxborough, Boxford, Burlington, Hamilton, Hopkinton, Ipswich, Lincoln, Lexington, Lynnfield, Nahant, North Reading, Reading, Stoneham, Tewksbury, Wakefield, Wenham, West Newbury, Winchester and Woburn. The company also has TV franchises in the Massachusetts communities of Marion, Mattapoisett, Rochester and Tyngsborough.... | |
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| | | Fiber Ethernet Device Server has built-in terminators. | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:27:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Adjustable for best impedance match, JetPort 5601f serial device server helps deliver serial data throughput when connected as RS-422 or RS-485 network. Fiber Ethernet allows high communication bandwidth and provides high noise immunity against EMI/RFI interferences. Supporting speeds of 460.8 kbps, serial port can work in virtual com, TCP server, TCP client, UDP, and serial tunnel. Unit also includes dual power inputs through 12-48 Vdc terminal block and 9-30 Vdc jack device. .... | |
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| | | High-speed fiber optics to connect Purdue Calumet with Lafayette ... | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:22:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | WEST LAFAYETTE | Congress has approved spending $5 million to aid development of a high-speed computer grid that links Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame, school officials said.The $5 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy brings the total federal investment in the Northwest Indiana Computational Grid project to $6.5 million, officials said Wednesday. Last year, $1.5 million was allocated for the project. The grid links Purdue's West Lafayette campus with Purdue Calumet in Hammond and Notre Dame in South Bend using high-speed fiber optic connections that allow them to share supercomputer processing power, data storage and visualization tools.Researchers can also connect to the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont, Ill., and businesses can tap into the grid through industrial partnerships.Gerry McCartney, Purdue's interim vice president for information technology and chief information officer, said grid computing allows researchers to gain access to resources at other institutions on the grid.The grid appropriation effort was led in Congress by U.S.... | |
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| | | Fiber Optic Specialist Carl Walsh to Join American Fiber Optics Team | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:32:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | Norfolk, VA (PRWEB) November 9, 2006 -- Trente Balderson, CEO of American Fiber Optics, announced today that Carl Walsh has joined the company as Strategic Business Development Specialist. Walsh's addition to the team is an important part of a strategy by American Fiber Optics to expand its line of fiber optic products and training programs into new markets. .... | |
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| | | Shenandoah Telecommunications Selects The Trident7 Optical Access Platform | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:17:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | Wave7 Optics Inc., a supplier of fiber-to-the-home or -premises (FTTH/FTTP) equipment for residential and business services, has announced that Shenandoah Telecommunications (Shentel) will use Last Mile Link (LML) and Trident7 Optical Access Platform network equipment for new FTTP networks. Shentel, headquartered in Edinburg, VA, is an Independent Operating Company with approximately 25,000 subscribers in its "ILEC" region and 20,000 subscribers in various areas served through its "Converged Services" subsidiary operating in the mid-Atlantic states. Shentel serves a region growing rapidly due to a steady population influx from the neighboring Washington, DC Baltimore corridor. Shentel will initially deploy the Wave7 Optics equipment for fiber-fed subdivisions within its ILEC serving area to provide telephone service, television and high-speed Internet.... | |
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| | | AudioCodes and CTI2 Selected to Deploy FASTWEB's Enhanced Unified Communication & IPTV Applications | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:19:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | AudioCodes , a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network Products, and CTI Squared (CTI2), a leading developer and provider of Next Gen, value-added solutions for carriers and service providers, today announced that FASTWEB, Italy's second largest fixed telephony operator and the first player worldwide to develop an all IP network for Triple Play service delivery (voice, data, and video), is expanding its use of CTI2's InTouch(TM) platform, integrated with AudioCodes IPmedia(TM) Media Server, for advanced voicemail and unified messaging services. FASTWEB will deploy AudioCodes-CTI2's upgraded IPTV messaging application. On top of this FASTWEB will make AudioCodes-CTI2's enhanced Unified Communication service available to its own customer base very close to 1 million clients as of today.... | |
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