UK based electric bus manufacturer Optare has secured an electric bus supply order from Nottingham City Council in England, Europe. Under the order, the manufacturer will supply ten units of the Optare Solo SR midibus model that has a ...
The Tyne and Wear Metro - which opened in 1980 and serves Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland - has had 500 new LED lights installed across its network in a bid to bring its operational costs and ...
Tags: LED, Lighting, LED lights
Alcatel-Lucent and Shaw Communications say they have achieved a “ground-breaking milestone” with the successful first field trial in North America of 400 Gbps (Gigabit-per-second) data transmission over an existing optical link ...
A distribution centre for Tesco at Middlewich, Cheshire – operated by CEVA Logistics – faces closure with the potential loss of 130 jobs. Tesco is reviewing its online grocery distribution network This follows Tesco’s ...
Tags: Tesco, Agriculture, Food
The Federal Opposition leader has demonstrated that he simply does not understand public transport, says the Australasian Railways Association. “Comments today that an incoming Abbott Government would cut all urban rail funding ...
Tags: rail funding, economic, Tony Abbott
Avago Technologies has launched the AFBR-8420Z, a 10-channel pluggable, multi-mode parallel optic transceiver module, compliant with the CFP2 multi-source agreement (MSA) and designed for high-density 100G Ethernet and optical transport ...
Tags: optical transceiver, optical transport network systems, fiber
Avago Technologies and Amphenol Corp of Wallingford, CT, USA (which makes electronic and fiber-optic connectors, cables and interconnect systems) announced a new micro cLGA integrated socket solution for use with Avago’s ...
Tags: electrical interface, integrated socket, cLGA integrated socket
Akado Telecom, a multi-service cable network operator, has launched a high-speed metro optical network in the Moscow region of Russia, based on the DTN and ATN platforms of Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated ...
The energy-efficient lighting takeover is already a global phenomenon, as has been demonstrated by the decision taken across the Channel to replace all of the lighting within the most famous transport network in France - the Parisian Metro ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
A four-year contract to install LED lighting across the transport network in Paris will see work begin in April this year. RATP, the company that runs the transport network in Paris, France, has awarded multi-year contracts worth a total of ...
Tags: LED lighting, Philips, Step, Soitec
Royal Philips Electronics announced it has been awarded a multi-year contract in partnership with French professional lighting company Step to light up the subway system in Paris with energy-efficient LED lighting solutions. The switch to ...
Tags: Royal Philips Electronics, LED lighting solutions, LED
Paris Metro stations wiill benefit from LED lighting The company has won a share of an €11 million (GBP 9.4 million) contract to light the Metro network in Paris. Philips, in partnership with French lighting company Step, has been ...
Tags: Paris Metro, ED lighting, Philips
Microsemi's latest optical system linecard device is designed to address channel density issue with the uptake of 100G links. "Growth of 100G is exceeding our most optimistic predictions and, in turn, significantly bolstering the optical ...
Tags: Microsemi, optical system, linecard device
Computer giant Oracle has splashed out some $2.1bn (£1.34bn) to acquire Acme Packet, a provider of session border control technology. Excluding cash, the deal can be valued at about $1.7bn. The transaction has been unanimously ...
Tags: Oracle, ACME Packet, Computer Products
The National Transport Commission (NTC) is reminding all Australians that they have the opportunity to make a submission to the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) Regulatory Policy Issues discussion paper before submissions ...