TeraGo Networks Inc., a national broadband service provider to businesses in Canada, reportedly has been selected by Public Mobile to assist in launching Canada's newest cellular network by providing wireless backhaul services for a portion of its planned network deployment.

BT now says it will deploy FTTH to about 2.5 million U.K. homes and businesses, more han doubling the one million locations it earlier had planned to reach.

NetLogic Microsystems Inc., a provider of high-performance semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, has reportedly launched NLP1220 dual-port 8.5Gbps Fibre Channel Physical Layer (PHY) repeater device for next-generation data center switches and storage Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).

ADC and Tyco Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronic components, network solutions, specialty products and undersea telecommunication systems, reportedly have reached FTTX licensing agreement.

BroadLight, a supplier of GPON Semiconductors and software, was reportedly received patent number 7,609,967 by the U.S. Patent Office for a "method and apparatus for automatically upgrading passive optical networks." The United States Patent and Trademark Office is the federal agency that grants U.S. patents and registering trademarks. It functions with a focus to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries.