Continuum Joins Partners in Live Webcast

Intelligent Testing is the topic of an upcoming live webcast to be held this Thursday May 5th at 1 pm EDT (10 am PDT). Continuum, along with its fellow sponsors, Cisco, EdenTree, and MRV, take a look at the industry-wide move toward increased test automation in today’s leading labs, and the new technologies that are enabling this phenomenon.

Continuum and MRV will introduce their two distinctly different switching technologies, optical and electrical switching respectively, and highlight new test applications that are enabled by these technologies. EdenTree will provide an overview of their lab automation software, which provides an integrated capability for lab resource scheduling, asset management & sharing, and 24/7 physical lab reconfiguration. Cisco will describe the impact that lab automation has had on a real Systems Verification Test lab.

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Customer Spotlight:
Carrier Lab Tests FTTH Video Network

DirectLight products continue to demonstrate strong value for its customers in network emulation and test. When a leading ILEC needed to develop a capability for more effectively testing its video distribution network for its FTTH roll-out, it chose the DirectLight IG optical switch. DirectLight is installed in the service providers network testbed for its next generation video distribution system, and is used as part of a capability to reconfigure numerous network elements while testing network performance and link budgets.

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Post-OFC 2005 Round-up & iPod Winners

Thank you to all those people who came to the Continuum booth at OFC/NFOEC 2005!

We had more than 200 people stop by our booth, making it one of the best shows for Continuum. Continuum Photonics, along with its partners, Agilent Technologies, and EdenTree Technologies, conducted a live remote test automation demonstration at OFC/NFOEC 2005. Visitors to our booth in Anaheim were able to visually identify and change test equipment configurations in Boston, experience automated test, and interpret test data results remotely.

Response to Continuum’s premier issue of “At the Transparent Layer” was tremendous – thank you to all those that signed up to receive the Newsletter on a continuous basis. We will continue to strive to bring useful information and interesting customer spotlights in future issues.

It is also time to announce our 3 iPod winners:

• Don P., MCI
• Chris S., Tellabs
• Don A., SBC

Congratulations to our 3 winners & thanks to all those who participated!

Continuum wins Frost & Sullivan Award

Continuum Photonics has been selected as the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation Innovation. The award represents leadership in the successful adoption of new technology to best address emerging markets, and was awarded to recognize the DirectLight series of switches. This award was presented in conjunction with Frost & Sullivan’s World MEMS Based Optical Components Markets research.

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Welcome to New Readers

Are you new to the newsletter? If so, welcome.

“At the Transparent Layer” is dedicated to providing practical information in the use of optical switching for fiber optic lab, manufacturing, network, and central office applications. This Newsletter will be focused on the advantages of implementing physical layer connectivity tools with truly transparent capabilities.

• Who can benefit from the information in this Newsletter?
  
  • Service Providers
    
  • Government, Aerospace, and Defense users
    
  • Network equipment manufacturers
  • Component and module manufacturers

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