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1/15/08
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January 2008 Meeting
Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA
Topic: Fiber and Photonics for
Military and Defense Applications
Speakers:
Tony Christopher, kSARIA Corp.
Alex Rosiewicz , EM4, Inc.
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12/11/07
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December 2007 Meeting
Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA
Topic: FTTH / FTTP SYSTEMS FOR IPTV
Speakers:
Floyd Wagoner, Motorola / Quantum Bridge
Tony Stanley, Scientific Atlanta
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11/6/07
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November 2007 Meeting
Doubletree, Waltham, MA
Topic: Advances in Bend-Insenitive Singlemode Fibers
for High Density FTTH applicatons
Speakers:
Paulo Dainese, Corning
David Mazzarese, OFS
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6/28/07
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June 2007 Meeting
NUFERN, East Granby, CT
Topic: New England Fiberoptic Council Offers Plant Tour and
10-year Perspective and Report on New England’s
Specialty Fiberoptic Industry
Speaker – Martin Seifert, President and CEO
NUFERN
2007 NEFC Scholarships
http://web.archive.org/web/20080306122837/http://www.nefc.com/Jan2007.html
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5/21/07
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FIBERFEST 2007
Royal Plaza, Marlborough , MA
Topic: The Optical Future for Broadband Access: Progress and Perspectives
The Market Situation – IGI – Paul Polishuk
Optical Technology Overview – MIT Center for Integrated Photonics – Dr. Rajeev Ram
Hardware for FTTx – ADC Telecom – Tom Huegerich
PONs for Telcos – Motorola/Quantum Bridge – Steve Kish
Next Generation Cable Networks – Motorola – Dave Gaetani
Triple Play and Fiber – Verizon – Rajesh Yadav
Optical Broadband - Human Resources – Mississauga Training Consultants – Bill Graham
Optical Broadband -The Market’s Perspective – Lightwave Advisors -John Dexheimer
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4/17/07
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April 2007 Meeting
Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA
Topic: Fiber-to-Home networks
Speaker – Jim Farmer
Wave7 Optics
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2/20/07
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Feb 2007 Meeting
Sheraton Tara, Framingham, MA
Topic: Enabling New Applications via
Mode Conversation in Single Mode Fiber
Speaker – Cathy Ciardello
Marketing Manager
OFS
Speaker – Bill Emkey
Founder and CEO
WorldTech Consultants
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1/16/07
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Jan 2007 Meeting
Burlington Marriott
Topic: 40Gbps Systems – Today and Tomorrow
Speaker – Niall Robinson
VP of Marketing and Product Management
MINTERA CORP
Topic: 40Gbps Dispersion-Managed Transmitter Development
Speaker – Daniel Mahgerefteh, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
ANZA CORP
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12/14/06
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2006 Holiday Meeting
Doubletree Waltham
Speaker – Russ Schomber
NEON Communications, V.P. of Engineering
Mr. Schomber discussed NEON’s principal activities: installing, operating, owning, and managing fiberoptic telecommunication networks, as well as providing optical networking solutions and services.
Speaker – Dr. Jing Zhao
CEO, AGILTRON Inc
Dr. Zhao updated us on Agiltron’s communications and sensing solutions, and the progress of the company over the past few years.
Speaker – Dr. Aaron Bent
Polatis, VP Marketing & Bus. Development
Dr. Bent presented an update on the company’s growth and the joining of Continuum with Polatis.
An Auction of Fiberoptic Memorabilia
Memorabilia related to fiber optics from the old days (10, 20, 30 years ago): promotional items, datasheets, hats, tee shirts, other products were raffled off to a number of lucky buyers
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10/17/06
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Tour of MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems (CIPS)
MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
Innovation in Optics at MIT
Rajeev Ram, Director
MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems
Future Directions for FTTx
Fred Leonberger, Senior Advisor
MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems
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9/13/06
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LUMINUS DEVICES
Doubletree Guest Suite, Waltham, MA
Alexei Erchak
Founder and CTO of Luminus Devices, Woburn, MA
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6/27/06
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POWERING ELECTRONICS WITH LIGHT
Doubletree Guest Suite, Waltham, MA
Dr. Jan-Gustav Werthen
JDSU Photonic Power Group
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5/23/06
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FIBER LASERS, TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATIONS
Doubletree, Westborough, MA
Kameel Wakim, IPG Photonics
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3/28/06
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FIBER OPTIC INDUSTRY ANALYSIS, POST OFC
Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA
Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher of Lightwave
Richard Mack
Vice President & General Manager, KMI Research
Neal Weiss
President, Fiber Optic Center
Ruo Ding Li
DMTS, Motorola Labs
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2/15/06
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BROADBAND IP SERVICES TO THE HOME:
CABLE AND TELCO TECHNOLOGIES
Westford Regency, Westford, MA
Denis Khotimsky, Ph.D., Andover, Networks Division: TELCO
MOTOROLA (QUANTUM BRIDGE)
Mike Cookish, Marlborough, Connected Homes Solutions Division: CATV
MOTOROLA
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1/10/06
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FIBER FOR NEXT GENERATION BROADCAST AND
COMMERCIAL SERVICES
Wyndham Hotel, Westborough, MA
Richard Cerny, president and CEO
Telecast Fiber Systems
Sunil Frida, Solution Manager
Harmonic Inc.
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12/13/05
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NEFC HOLIDAY DINNER MEETING
Newton Marriott, Newton, MA
OPTOVIA
Niall Robinson, VP Marketing
AZNA LLC
Parviz Tayebati, President & Founder
BROWN UNIVERSITY
John McMurdy
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11/9/05
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CANADIAN PHOTONICS CLUSTERS…GETTING TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS
Doubletree Guest Suites, Waltham, MA
Jim Frappier
Program Director - Ottawa Photonics Cluster
and
Business Development Officer, Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre, NRC
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10/26/05
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FIBER SENSORS FOR HOMELAND SECURITY
Doubletree Guest Suites, Waltham, MA
Photonic Sensor Opportunities for Homeland Security Applications
David Krohn, Light Wave Venture LLC
Overview of Military Photonic Sensing Activities
Alexis Mendez, MCH Engineering
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9/20/05
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PLASMA CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (PCVD):
A New Tool for Advanced Optical Fiber Development
Best Western Royal Plaza, Marlborough, MA
Two Presentations:
Bill Beck, Director North America Sales
YOFC Specialty Optical Fiber and Preforms
Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Company, Ltd.
Rick Tumminelli, Manager Specialty Fiber Development
StockerYale
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6/28/05
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MIL-AERO APPLICATIONS OF FIBER OPTICS
KVH’s Polarization Maintaining Fiber and Its Use in Fiber Optic Gyros
JAY NAPOLI
Director, Fiber Optic Gyro and OEM Business Development, KVH Industries
The presentation described:
•KVH’s approach to manufacturing its PM fiber
•The components within the fiber optic gyro’s optical circuit that are made from the fiber such as pigtailed lasers, couplers, polarizers
•KVH’s fiber optic gyros: their characteristics and customer applications
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Advances in Mil / Aero Fiber Optic Cable Manufacture
TONY CHRISTOPHER
VP Engineering, kSARIA Corporation
This presentation discussed kSARIA Corporation’s approach to meeting the quality and reliability demands for military fiber optic assemblies through the deployment of unique automated manufacturing technology. kSARIA’s history began in servicing the commercial telecom marketplace and has evolved its business to a niche in the military market where high value is placed on product quality/ reliability for mission critical applications.
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5/9/05
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES PROSPECTS IN THE FIBEROPTIC INDUSTRY
Somerset Marriott, Somerset, NJ
Chairman: Dr. M. Mahmud Awan
President/CEO Regional Technology Corporation
Panelists:
Dr. David J. Bishop
VP of Nanotechnology Research at Bell Labs
James O. Farmer
Chief Technology Officer, Wave7Optics
Dr. James A. Harrington
Professor of Ceramic Science & Engineering
Rutgers University
Dr. Paul Polishuk
President, IGI Group
Richard Mack
Vice President/GM KMI Research
Robert Whitman
FTTH Council
Global Broadband Market Devlopment Manager, Corning, Inc.
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3/05
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TAKING A PROVEN AND POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY TO NEW FRONTIERS
Petros Kotidis
Axsun Technologies
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2/17/05
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MAKING MONEY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY LICENSING–
WHAT’S OUT THERE AND HOW TO GET IT!
Wyndham, Westborough, MA
Five presentations:
Michael Cavaretta
Morse Barnes -Brown & Pendleton
Randal Chinnock
Optimum Technologies
Mike Gagnon
Vista Ventures Early Stage Investing
Howard Guthermann
DJR Technology Associates
Jerry Schaufeld
Dir. of the Slater Technology Fund/Navigator Technology Ventures
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12/13/04
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2004 Holiday Dinner Meeting
Hartwell House, Lexington, MA
Two excellent presentations:
CONTINUUM Photonics
Speaker: Aaron Bent
EM4 Defense Inc.
Speaker: Mike Downing
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09/22/04
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THE PROSPECT FOR MUNICIPAL FTTH
Wyndham, Westborough, MA
Sharon Eisner Gillett
Executive Director
Program on Internet and Telecom Convergence
Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
Mass. Institute of Technology
Because there has been so much interest in FFTP, we are continuing to focus on the topic.
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07/19/04
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VERIZON’S FIBER-TO-THE-PREMISE PLANS
Marriott, Newton, MA
Vincent O’Byrne
Director of Wireline Technologies at Verizon Technology
This featured presentation will cover Verizon’s FTTP plans, including the architecture, the services and why Verizon sees this as the best time to deploy FTTP.
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02/3/04
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Optical Sensors in the Oil and Gas Industry
Publick House, Sturbridge, MA
Paul E. Sanders, Director of Technology Acquisition
Weatherford International Intelligent Completion Technologies
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12/10/03
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NEFC Holiday Dinner with New Company Presentations
Hartwell House, Lexington, MA
Benny Mikkelsen, Vice President, Systems and Technology, Mintera
Matthias Wagner, Founder and CEO, Aegis Semiconductor
Dr. Jing Zhao, Founder and CEO, Agiltron
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11/10/03
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Medical Application of Fiber
Beechwood Inn, Worcester, MA
Photonics in Medicine & Medical Research at WPI - Laser Microsurgery, Solitons, and Non-linear optics
Ross Shonat, Ph.D.
INCOM Fiberoptic Array Technology for Biotech Applications
Michael Minot, Ph.D.
Optical Coherence Tomography: Toward Early Disease Detection
Dr. Joseph Smith, CTO Lightlab Imaging
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10/7/03
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Fiberoptics After The Boom: A Panel Discussion
“What Happened and Why?
Will the Industry recover and, if so, when?
What Markets will drive growth in the future?
What important new technologies are emerging?“
Doubletree Guest Suites, Waltham, MA
Dave Hardwick, Chariman of the Board, Confluent Photonics
Dale Flanders, Founder & CTO, Axsun Technologies
Dr. David Mazzarese, Senior Technical Manager, OFS Sturbridge
Fred Leonberger, EOvation Technologies (formerly CTO of JDSU)
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08/26/03
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NEFC Summer Social
- Guided tours of the Fiber Optic Center
- Self-Guided Tour of the New Bedford Whaling Facility New Bedford, MA
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06/17/03
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Tour of kSARIA’s Advanced Optical Fiber Manufacturing Facility Wilmington, MA
Dinner at the Wydham, Andover, MA
Presentation by Bill Emkey
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02/27/03
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Ed Martell from Verizon gives an overview of their network restoration in New York after 9/11
Westborough Wyndham
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12/11/02
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NEFC Holiday Dinner: The NEFC Presents Four New Companies
The Hartwell House, Lexington
Holiday Door Prizes See Photo
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11/19/02
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The Future of Fiberoptics:Market & Technology Perspectives
Westborough Wyndham
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09/04/02
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Enabling the Dynamically Configurable Network
Westborough Wyndham
- Yariv Geller, Polychromix
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06/10/02
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Specialty Fiber and It’s Role in the All Optical Network
Sheraton Lexington
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02/12/02
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Passive and Active Components that Enable Long-Haul and Metro Fiber Systems
Publick House, Sturbridge
- Fred Leonburger, JDS Uniphase
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01/22/02
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NEPTUNE:A Fiberoptic Telescope for Innerspace
Wyndham Westborough
- Alan Chave of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
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12/11/01
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A Trio of New Fiberoptic Companies
Colonial Inn, Concord
- Jim Hsia of Lasersharp
- Irving Wang of CyOptics
- Frank Weiss of Zygo TeraOptix
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09/24/01
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Tour of CAFA
Publick House, Sturbridge
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06/15/01
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Return to FONS
Radisson Hotel, Marlborough
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04/11/01
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Use of Laser Doppler Vibrometers to Measure MEMS
Wyndham Hotel, Westborough
- David Oliver of Polytec PI
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02/12/01
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An Evening with Fiber Pioneer Will Hicks
The Publick House Sturbridge
- The Future of Fiberoptics (and the Future of the World)
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12/04/00
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DWDM: An Introduction to the Technology and its Role in the
Evolving Optical Network
Wyndham Hotel Westborough
- Brian Milewski of Lucent Technologies
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10/02/00
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Tunable Laser Technology & Applications
Wyndham Hotel, Westborough
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08/22/00
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Tour of Boston University Lightwave Technology Lab
Boston University, Boston
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08/01/00
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Tour of Olin Aegis
White’s Restaurant, New Bedford
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01/12/00
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Testing DWDM Devices (Joint NE-SPIE Meeting)
Lasertron Facility, Burlington, MA
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12/15/99
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DWDM Video MANs (Joint SMPTE Meeting)
Sheraton Tara, Newton
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11/01/99
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Tour of Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation
Fraunhofer Facility, Boston
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08/23/99
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Nortel Traveling Showcase Vehicle
Radisson Hotel, Marlborough
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05/18/99
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HDTV & Fiberoptics
Marriott, Westborough
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03/16/99
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Bell Atlantic’s Optical Fiber Network
Marriott, Westborough
- Bruce Hood of Bell Atlantic
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01/19/99
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Fiber Optic Sensing for Monitoring in the Oil & Gas Industry
Publick House, Sturbridge
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12/01/98
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Small Form Factor Connectors
Marriott, Westborough
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10/06/98
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Tour of T&B Aster
Brook Manor, Attleboro
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08/13/98
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Tour of Simplex Undersea Manufacturing Facility
Yoken’s, Portsmouth, MA
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05/18/98
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Overview of CAFA - A High Technology Alliance
Wayside Inn, Sudbury
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02/04/98
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Fiber Optic Motion Sensors for Bridge Monitoring / Connecticut
Photonic Industrial Cluster
Publick House, Sturbridge
- Malcolm Hodge of Applied Fiberoptics
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12/02/97
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The POF vs. Glass Wars
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
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09/24/97
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RCN’s Fiber Network and Bundled Services
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
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08/18/97
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Tour of the Boston University Photonics Center
BU Photonics Center
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05/15/97
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A Whale of a Good Time, A tour of the Fiber Optic Center
and the New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA
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03/13/97
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Training & Certification: A Round Tabel Discussion
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
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11/18/96
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Tour of Schott Fiberoptics
Publick House, Sturbridge
- William Hill of Schott Fiberoptics
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10/01/96
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The Massachusetts Information Turnpike Initiative
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
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08/19/96
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Tour of Fiberoptic Network Solutions (FONS) and NEFC Summer Luau
FONS, Northborough
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05/21/96
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Optical Filter Based DWDM and Other Components for
Future Optical Networking
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
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03/12/96
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Therapeutic and Diagnostic Uses of Fiber Optics
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
- Dr. Ed Sinofsky of Rare Earth Medical
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01/30/96
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You Want to do What with that Fiber?: A Variety of
Fiberoptic Applications
White Cliffs, Northborough
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08/02/95
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NYNEX Traning Facililty
Radisson Inn, Marlborough
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05/31/95
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NEFC Conference: Fiberoptic Solutions - The State of Our Art
Doubletree Guest Quarters, Waltham
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03/13/95
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An Overview of ATM
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
- Simon Ginzburg of Racal Interlan
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01/23/95
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Vertical Integration and the Market for Plastic Optical Fiber
Sheraton Inn, Milford
- Ed Berman of Boston Optical Fiber
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11/14/94
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Fiber Optics at an Electric Utility
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
- Larry Dexter of Boston Edison
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09/19/94
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FIber Optics in Television, Audio, Production & Post-Production
and Multimedia
Marriott Hotel, Westborough
- C. Robert Paulson of Omnimedia Communications
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