Corning Introduces Its Highest Speed Multimode Optical Fiber.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Optical Fiber Communications 2002 CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2002 Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated NYSE: GLW is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known until 1989 as Corning Glass Works. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ): Corning(R) InfiniCor(R) SX+ fiber for high-bandwidth premises applications reaches speeds previously only achieved by standard single-mode fiber See singlemode fiber. Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), a world-leading supplier of optical fiber, unveils today its latest optical fiber innovation, a 10 Gigabit Ethernet-capable multimode fiber An optical fiber with a larger core than singlemode fiber. It is the most commonly used fiber for short distances such as LANs. Light can enter the core at different angles, making it easier to connect the light source to broader light sources such as LEDs. . Corning(R) InfiniCor(R) SX+ fiber enables the high bandwidth performance of standard single-mode fiber for premises applications while achieving a lower overall systems cost. InfiniCor SX+ fiber, designed to provide an upgrade path to conquer bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video and medical imaging, is a 50-micron multimode fiber enabling 10 Gb/s serial transmission over 300 meters in the 850 nm wavelength window. It is designed for use with low-cost, 850 nm vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) to enable a cost-effective high bandwidth solution. The high-bandwidth InfiniCor SX+ fiber enables higher data aggregation within the backbone and the riser for local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) applications, and is ideally suited for storage area networks (SANs), high-speed parallel interconnects for central offices and access networks. InfiniCor SX+ fiber can be deployed now to meet network requirements from 10 Mb/s to 622 Mb/s using LED-based protocols, and as bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal increase, end users can migrate to laser-based protocols (Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet), all on the same fiber, to meet future network demands. "The industry's demand for a Corning 10 Gigabit Ethernet-capable multimode fiber has been unwavering," said Alan Eusden, general manager and senior vice president, Corning Optical Fiber. "Corning put the power of our unparalleled development and manufacturing expertise to work to ensure a high-quality, ultra-reliable product that met the customer's expectations. We're delighted to have exceeded those goals with InfiniCor SX+ fiber and are already receiving orders." Established in 1851, Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) creates leading-edge technologies for the fastest-growing markets of the world's economy. Corning manufactures optical fiber, cable and photonic products for the telecommunications industry; and high-performance displays and components for television, information technology and other communications-related industries. The company also uses advanced materials to manufacture products for scientific, semiconductor and environmental markets. Corning revenues for 2001 were $6.3 billion. For more information on Corning optical fiber, please visit www.corning.com/opticalfiber |
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