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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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meeting details
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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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meeting details
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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
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meeting details
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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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meeting details
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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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meeting details
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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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meeting details
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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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meeting details
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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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meeting details
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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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meeting details
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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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meeting details and
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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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Presentation
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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meeting details and
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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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Presentation
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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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