$LWLG LIGHTWAVE Stephen Hardy's Friday 5 (8/31/18)
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This week's Top 5 stories:
#5: AT&T touts more than 450,000 lit buildings in U.S.
The company tops Vertical Systems Group's lit building leaderboard, but both other traditional telcos as well as cable MSOs are racing to connect customers to enable delivery of lucrative business services.
by Lightwave Staff
#4: Lightwave Logic reports progress on 50-Gbps polymer modulator, eyes 100 Gbps
The company finally seems close to moving from the science project to commercial product phase. And it bought the other primary developer of polymer-based optical components, so it pretty much has the field to itself.
by Stephen Hardy
https://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2018...-gbps.html
#3: Electric co-ops select PON FTTH systems from ADTRAN
Electric co-ops often feel that if they don't provide the infrastructure for gigabit bandwidth to their members, no one else will. And they're probably right.
by Stephen Hardy
#2: Optical systems sales struggle in Q2 2018: IHS Markit
Three out of three market researchers agree: The second quarter of 2018 was no fun for optical network hardware vendors (except maybe Huawei and Ciena).
by Stephen Hardy
#1: IEEE Study Group tackles Google Fiber Super-PON
Google Fiber has a plan to enable a single central office to serve 1024 customers at reaches of approximately 50 km. The IEEE thinks the idea is worth a close examination.
by Stephen Hardy