Our seventh annual Lightwave Innovation Reviews follows our standard format. We invited technology developers to submit products in various technology categories for review by our independent panel of judges in time for OFC 2020. In some cases, that brought entries for products that will be introduced at this year's show.
Lightwave Editorial Director Stephen Hardy, in his role as Award Program Manager, assigned each entry to be reviewed by at least three judges knowledgeable in the relevant technology or application. As was the case in previous years, they rated each entry on the following scale: Fiber Optic Termination Box
This year’s panel included:
And, as has been tradition, we honor the following entries for achieving a score of at least 3.5 on that 1 to 5 scale. Congratulations to all of the companies listed below – and be sure to look for these companies at OFC 2020 to find out more.
Go!Foton PEACOC High Density Compact Wireline-Wireless Terminal
Ripley Tools Miller ACS+ Cable Slitter for Armored Cables
STL Next Generation Bend Insensitive A2 Fiber - Stellar
STL High Fiber Count Ribbon and Cables - TruRibbon
Wirewerks Zayo Group Switches to New NextSTEP Fiber Distribution Frame
InPhi Porrima Gen2 PAM4 400-Gbps Platform
MaxLinear MxL93516 100G PAM4 DSP with EA-EML Integrated Driver
Microchip Technology META-DX1 1.2-Tbps Ethernet PHY with MACsec and FlexE
Sumitomo Electric Industries AirMT Ferrule: Non-Contact Multi-Fiber Interconnect
Consortium for On Board Optics Delta Open Networking Platform COBO PoC
AFL Splicer Accessory Management via Bluetooth
Anritsu Co. Network Master Pro MT1000A
Keysight Technologies N4891A 400GBASE FEC-Aware Receiver Test Solution
LightRiver intelligent Factory Built Network
Spirent Communications Spirent 400G 1U Appliance
Viavi Solutions DWDM Optical Channel Checker module (OCC-4056C)
Viavi Solutions Network & Service Companion (NSC-100)
Viavi Solutions ONMS for PON Construction and Activation
Viavi Solutions ONMS Tunable DWDM Fiber Network Management Solution
ADTRAN 10G Fiber Access Portfolio
Anritsu Co. Signal Quality Analyzer-R MP1900A
Coherent Solutions BERTPXIe - Bit Error Rate Tester
EXFO Full-band combiner (FBC) on the CTP10 Component Test Platform
Sumix Side+Front View for MPO Geometry & Guide Holes Parallelism
Viavi Solutions VIAVI MAP-300 Optical Manufacturing Test Platform
Viavi Solutions VIAVI ONT-800 Optical Network Test Platform
Xena Networks ApS Vantage Ethernet Production Line Tester
II-VI Inc. FOXQ6411C1BL IC-TROSA
Lumentum S32, S29, M31, and M29 Series 980 nm Pump Modules
Senko Advanced Components Waterproof LC
Suncall America MPO Internal Shutter Adapter with SC Footprint
II-VI Inc. 25-Gbps Wavelength Tunable SFP28 Transceiver
Inphi COLORZ II 400ZR Pluggable Transceiver
ECI Telecom Apollo OPT9904X Pay-as-you-Grow Edge OTN/Packet Switch
Fujitsu Network Communications 1FINITY L220 CDC Add/Drop Blade
Fujitsu Network Communications 1FINITY S-Series Switch with Cloud Based Routing
Inphi Canopus 7-nm DSP Enabling 400G Coherent Pluggables
ZTE Large OTN Switching Platform Based on E-OTN Solution
ZTE ZENIC ONE SDN Product for Transport Networks
Stephen Hardy is editorial director and associate publisher of Lightwave and Broadband Technology Report, part of the Lighting & Technology Group at Endeavor Business Media. Stephen is responsible for establishing and executing editorial strategy across the both brands’ websites, email newsletters, events, and other information products. He has covered the fiber-optics space for more than 20 years, and communications and technology for more than 35 years. During his tenure, Lightwave has received awards from Folio: and the American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) for editorial excellence. Prior to joining Lightwave in 1997, Stephen worked for Telecommunications magazine and the Journal of Electronic Defense.
Stephen has moderated panels at numerous events, including the Optica Executive Forum, ECOC, and SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. He also is program director for the Lightwave Innovation Reviews and the Diamond Technology Reviews.
He has written numerous articles in all aspects of optical communications and fiber-optic networks, including fiber to the home (FTTH), PON, optical components, DWDM, fiber cables, packet optical transport, optical transceivers, lasers, fiber optic testing, and more.
Fiber Optic Splice Unit You can connect with Stephen on LinkedIn as well as Twitter.