mdi will be will be delivering a joint paper with AT&T on Wednesday March 24th at 9.30am.

mdi's Chief Technologist, Trevor Anderson, will present the joint paper with AT&T Labs on Wednesday 24th March at 9.30am. in room 1B. The paper (OWB6) is titled : “Measurement of Mean Fiber DGD Using Asynchronous Delay-Tap Sampling” .

We will be there with Olivier Jerphagnon, our CEO, and Trevor Anderson our Chief Technologist, to bring you up to date with what we are doing in a relaxed environment.

Address:

Morton's The Steakhouse
The Harbor Club
285 J Street
San Diego CA 92101

phone: 619 696 3369

We all look forward to welcoming you for a Happy Hour......or two.

The mdi Team

P.S.   Don't forget to hear Trevor Anderson present the joint paper with AT&T Labs on Wednesday 24th March at 9.30am. in room 1B. Title of paper OWB6 is “Measurement of Mean Fiber DGD Using Asynchronous Delay-Tap Sampling” .

Olivier Jerphagnon has been named as mdi's new CEO as former CEO David  Wright steps down from his leadership role and returns to Australia.  Jerphagnon has been a key member of the leadership team since mdi's launch in 2007 and has been extremely influential and active as VP Marketing and Business Development.

Wright is moving back to his homeland Australia and will remain on the mdi Advisory Board in order to provide continuity. "We thank David for his important contributions to the company in its  start-up phase. His vision and direction have been key to our market  penetration to date." stated Jerphagnon.

Jerphagnon takes the helm as the awareness of mdi's technology grows  throughout the industry by licensing agreements with Finisar and Taseon, and also through recognition and awards, such as  being the sole start-up to receive an EOS accolade at Supercomm 09 for  its groundbreaking eyeD 360.

mdi will join three industry leaders on the only Supercomm panel to address the challenges of migrating carrier networks to 10G, 40G and 100G.

The first 10G  network transmissions exhibited previously unkown problems and signal impairments, such as dual pulses associated with PMD, and infrastructure managers and developers had to learn how to deal with them. The panel will show how to tame the uncertainty of migrating to mesh networks and 40/100Gbps transmission speeds, and will blend past lessons learned and innovative diagnostic solutions  (ie, finding in-situ optical impairments in real-time). Panelists will also discuss the emerging challenges of predicting the lifetime of an existing network, by posing and answering the question: are we building future networks on a house of cards", based on fiber that is aging out?

The panel comprises:

* Glenn Wellbrock, Dir Backbone Network Design, Verizon.

* Kaveh Hushyar, Telecommunications entrepreneur and advisor, former officer and VP Network Planning and Engineering, AT&T.

* Jim Benson, Head of DWDM Sales, N.America, Nokia Systems Networks.

* David Wright, President and CEO, mdi.

The panel session will be held on Friday 23 October from 12.20pm - 1.05 pm in room W183c

We look foward to seeing you at the panel session.

Read the  Supercomm 2009 press release

mdi announced at the European Conference on Communications (ECOC 2009) in Vienna, Austria that it has
received orders for commercial deployment of its groundbreaking eyeD 360 network monitor from Optus,
the division of SingTel in Australia.

As part of the qualification process, mdi is now an approved supplier to SingTel, receiving accelerated
acceptance due to the system’s uniqueness in the industry. “The mdi tool was the only device to easily and
accurately measure in-band OSNR. It also provided unprecedented visibility into our network by monitoring
fiber characteristics in-service.” explained Scott Robertson, technical specialist for data services engineering at
Optus, who led the evaluation of mdi’s eyeD 360.

mdi has also jointly published a case study on the carrier’s evaluation experience which highlights the challenges
that Optus faced with their network which led to them engaging mdi's eyeD expert team to investigate the specific
long haul routes, carry out test and measurement activities, without taking down the live link and provide the
resultant recommendations to take corrective action.

 Read the  Press Release

 See also Optus case study

During the European Conference on Communications (ECOC 2009) in Vienna, Austria, mdi launched a
single-port version of its four-in-one imparment monitor to meet the demand in the Test & Measurement
market for multi-purpose platforms

The single-port eyeD 360 offers four times the functionality, at one quarter the price of traditional dedicated
systems. It measures power level, OSNR (optical signal-to-noise ratio), CD (chromatic dispersion) and
PMD (polarization mode dispersion). Prospects include carrier and OEM labs, Government installations
and Research & Education networks. 

“This one-port device is also going to help engineers in laboratories and in the field to study complex effects,
such as PMD, which could not be done before on live traffic,” stated Olivier Jerphagnon, mdi VP of Marketing
and Business Development.  

Download eyeD 360 T&M data sheet

mdi will be exhibiting at the ECOC Conference 2009 in Vienna, Austria : September 20-24 at Booth 47 in Hall XL.

Demonstrations of mdi's eyeD 360 will be held in at the Booth, which is ajacent to the CTTS training Center, and visitors can attend as part of a generic group or make appointments to have a company specific session where they will be able to discuss their own company's challenges and how mdi could help in detail. 

In addition Trevor Anderson, mdi CTO, will be presenting 2 papers on Thursday September 24th:

  i)  9.30 am : Optical Performance Monitoring for Intelligent Networks

  ii) 10.00 am : co-authored with France Telecom/Orange Labs : on the Demonstration of Simultaneous OSNR and CD Monitoring using Asynchronous Delay Tap Sampling on an 800 km WDM Test Bed  

Both papers will be presented in Conference Room F1 

mdi executives will be available to meet with existing and prospective new customers, in order to discuss how the eyeD technology and products are being used to measure and monitor impairments such as power, OSNR, CD and PMD simultaneously and on live fiber that is carrying revenue generating traffic.

To register your interest in either attending a generic demonstration session, setting up a company specific meeting/demonstration or meeting with Trevor Anderson or particular excutives please send relevant details to  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will try and accommodate your requirements and schedule.
 

"Diana brings to the table a wealth of first hand experience in dealing with all business functions in many parts of the world and we are looking forward to her guidance and assistance with both strategic planning and tactical execution, especially in the Customer Experience and Quality areas" noted David Wright , mdi CEO, during his announcement of Diana's approintment to the Advisory Board to mdi's global team.

Read Diana Bell's Bio

mdi has recently recruited Kaveh Hushyar, former Senior Vice President, Network Planning
& Engineering for AT&T, to its Advisory Board. Under his leadership, AT&T established a blueprint for the
transformation of its global network to a Concept-Of-One IP/MPLS network. Mr. Hushyar was also responsible
for planning the migration of SONET architectures to WDM-based facilities. “mdi can fulfill a tremendous market
need with this new service capability,” noted Hushyar. “I am very bullish about the company’s overall
opportunity, but the ‘eyeD Expert’ offering also brings a critical infusion of know-how to help carriers migrate
from their well-known SONET diagnostics to the brave new world of IP over WDM fiber characterization. I’m
quite eager to bring my insights and experience to this domain.” 

Read Kaveh Husyar's bio

We are thrilled to share with you our second edition of the mdi newsletter newsletter,  which is part of our commitment to keep you informed on industry trends and our most recent news.

In this quarter's issue, we cover our activities at OFC in San Diego, in March, where we had a great show and successfully launched our new product the eyeD 360 , generating a lot of interest with existing customers and prospects.

Also in this edition, there is a series of articles providing insights into how to measure OSNR in new ROADM networks and migrate to 40G. Plus we report on the Lightwave webinar panel, that mdi recently took part in, and capture the thoughts of the three industry experts about the challenges ahead and the remedies being developed, relating to Test Strategies for 40G/100G Network Deployments.

We are now busy preparing for IIR’s WDM conference in Nice, France and the upcoming announcement of our professional service offering, both of which are outlined in this edition.             

Please download the June 2009 edition   The March 2009 edition is also available for download.

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