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Home Communications Inc. (HCI) has chosen Clearfield, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLFD) to supply fiber management equipment for a fiber to the home (FTTH) project in Kansas. The project, partially funded through the broadband stimulus program, will see more than 600 miles of fiber deployed throughout nine Kansas cities and passing approximately 1,800 homes. HCI will use Clearfield's FieldSmart Fiber Crossover Distribution System (FxDS) panels in its central offices and Fiber Scalability Center (FSC) PON ca > Read More..

The small form-factor pluggable (SFP) is a compact, hot-pluggable transceiver used for both telecommunication and data communications applications. SFP Transceiver Module can be regarded as the upgrade version GBIC, unlike GBIC with SC fiber optic interfaces is with LC interface and the main body size of SFP is only about half of GBIC, which makes SFP space saving, and it interfaces a network device mother board (for a router, switch, media converter or similar device) to a fiber optic or copper > Read More..

Originally, the term "coarse wavelength division multiplexing" was fairly generic, and meant a number of different things. In general, these things shared the fact that the choice of channel spacings and frequency stability was such that erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) could not be utilized. Prior to the relatively recent ITU standardization of the term, one common meaning for coarse WDM meant two (or possibly more) signals multiplexed onto a single fiber, where one signal was in the 1550  > Read More..

"We like to tell the kids that they start out Sturgis Falls because it's the first big event," said Kim Burger with the Cedar Falls Tourism and Visitor's Bureau. "I think a lot of the charm of this event is just the fact that it's casual and we kind of let the kids have the stage and run the show." > Read More..