Hakko Opto’s Honorary Advisor – Professor Charles Kao
Fibre optics technologies scoop Nobel physics prize - Published 10/07/2009 by IT-Online In 1966, Charles Kao made a discovery that led to a breakthrough in fibre optics. He carefully calculated how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers. With a fibre of purest glass it would be possible to transmit light signals over 100km,...READ full article (http://www.it-online.co.za/content/view/1422539/142/)
Brighten Up – It's A New Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) Technology
It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.
Plastic optical fibre (POF) for data transmission is often described as the "consumer" version of glass optical fibre, the kind that makes up the long-distance trunk routes of telecommunications networks. Flexible plastic fibres, with a core diameter of 1mm and made from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), are cheap to produce, easy to install and transmit light in the visible range as opposed to infrared, making maintenance easier and safer. But those properties typically come at the expense of lower bandwidth and high attenuation, restricting their use to sending data over short distances at relatively low speeds.
VNPT of Vietnam Dominates Market
The Viet Nam Post and Telecommunication Group aims to sew up 70 per cent of the domestic internet market by the end of this year, according to VNPT deputy director Bui Thien Minh.
In the first half of the year, the VNPT added 400,000 new internet subscribers and was hoping that number would rise to 1.2 million before the end of the year, Minh said.
"Since the beginning of the year, the number of ADSL subscribers has grown significantly, despite the global recession," he added.
VNPT's internet service is still regarded as the nation's best, according to a survey by PC World magazine, which finds 46 per cent of those surveyed prefer VNPT's broadband service to rivals FPT Telecom and Viettel.
The VNPT has been able to dominate the market due to its far-more developed infrastructure based on its home phone network.
It is a very successful exibition at VietnamComm09. Hakko Opto located at the main hall with all the big players, such as Huawei, ZTW, NokiaSiemen and Orange, etc are located next to us.
With the trend of FTTH, our booth is one of the most popular booths, a lot of key customers visited us and our Fiber Distribution Cabinet was very ... (more)