Corning Optical Fiber Selected for Baltic Sea Link.Business Editors CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002 Stockholm-to-Ventspils build marks first major submarine deployment of Vascade(TM) L1000 fiber and largest deployment of SMF-28e(TM) fiber in Europe 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) ) a world-leading supplier of optical fiber, announced today that AB Stokab and Foco 16 AB, Stockholm-based telecommunications carriers, will deploy almost 50,000 km of Corning(R) SMF-28e(TM), Vascade(TM) L1000 and LEAF(R) optical fibers in a new network designed to enable a high-capacity link between Sweden and Latvia. This will be the first major installation of Vascade L1000 cabled optical fiber in an undersea link and the largest deployment of SMF-28e cabled fiber in Europe. Ericsson, a global fiber-optic cable supplier based in Sweden, will provide the high-capacity submarine cable See Telegraph. See See also: Cable Submarine for this Baltic Sea Baltic Sea, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.163,000 sq mi (422,170 sq km), including the Kattegat strait, its northwestern extension. The Øresund, Store Bælt, and Lille Bælt connect the Baltic Sea with the Kattegat and Skagerrak straits, which lead to the network. The link will span the Baltic Sea to connect the Northern European hub of Stockholm, Sweden, to the Baltic port of Ventspils, Latvia. In the first phase of the build, Stokab will link Stockholm to the Swedish island of Gotland in the mid-Baltic Sea. In conjunction with this link, Stokab will also expand its festoon festoon, sculptured or painted architectural or interior ornament consisting of a garland of leaves, flowers, or fruit, or some combination of these, held by ribbons or folds and draped at the ends. architecture within the Stockholm archipelago The Stockholm Archipelago (Swedish: Stockholms skärgård) is the biggest archipelago of Sweden, and one of the biggest archipelagos of the Baltic sea. It stretches from Stockholm to about 60 kilometers to the east, bordering Åland. . In the second phase of the build, Foco 16 will link Gotland to Ventspils to complete the network. Dutch Sea Cable BV, based in the Netherlands, will install the cable for both phases of the build. "We are delighted to be a part of this state-of-the-art investment in the Stockholm area and across the Baltic Sea," said Derrick Wells, managing director, Optical Fiber-Europe, Corning Incorporated. "This major deployment of our technologically advanced Corning fibers ensures a reliable, high-performance network in a key Northern European market." "The extension of our network to Gotland will be an important step to create a more open and competitive market between Stockholm and Gotland. We are building for the future and have put special emphasis on selecting the right technology," said Ulf Richenberg, vice managing director, AB Stokab. "Continuing on from Gotland, the Foco 16 deployment will enhance Stockholm's position as a telecommunications center A facility, normally serving more than one organization or terminal, responsible for transmission, receipt, acceptance, processing, and distribution of incoming and outgoing messages. ." Corning's SMF-28e fiber, designed with low attenuation Loss of signal power in a transmission. Attenuation The reduction in level of a transmitted quantity as a function of a parameter, usually distance. It is applied mainly to acoustic or electromagnetic waves and is expressed as the ratio of power densities. in the water peak region, opens a new operating window for transmission and offers network designers the ability to install higher-capacity, low-cost unamplified networks. Vascade L1000 fiber is a single-mode fiber designed for the unique, often rigorous requirements of short-haul undersea networks operating at higher data rates, including 10 Gb/s. LEAF fiber, the world's most advanced non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZ-DSF NZ-DSF Non-Zero-Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Fujitsu) ), has a larger effective area to allow higher levels of power to be transmitted through the fiber than standard NZ-DSFs, minimizing the non-linear effects that degrade system performance. About AB Stokab AB Stokab (www.stokab.se), a Swedish company held by the City of Stockholm, builds and operates a fiber-optic network in the Greater Stockholm area. Stokab provides fiber connections (as dark fiber) to telecommunication carriers and to end users. The Stokab network is one of the largest independent dark fiber providers in the world. About Foco 16 AB Foco 16 AB is a Swedish company created as a joint vehicle between Swedish, Dutch and Russian industrial interests to build the Gotland-Ventspils link. One of the equity participants in Foco 16 is FTA FTA abbr. Future Teachers of America Sweden AB, a subsidiary of the Cyprus-based company FTA Baltic Holdings Limited, which is planning to construct a trans-Euro-Asian fiber-optic network directly connecting Europe to the Far East through China. About Corning Incorporated 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's optical fibers, visit www.corning.com/opticalfiber |
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