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Information on the Optical Fiber Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) held on February 24-28, 2008 in San Diego, California is presented. The conference highlighted the growing need for bandwidth and telecommunications industry has looked into terabit networks to address the demand. Chief technical officer (CTO) Pieter Poll of Qwest Communications mentioned that Qwest's Internet traffic has been doubling every 16 months.

The article unveils San Diego, California-based Mushroom Networks Incorporated's TRUFFLE (BBNA6401) broadband bonding solution targeting the enterprise, multi-tenant buildings, and broadband service provider markets. The TRUFFLE was developed to bridge the gap of limited bandwidth options available for expanding local networks. It bonds together as many as six high-speed Internet connections forming a virtual single broadband pipe that is extremely reliable and efficient.

The article reports that San Diego, California-based US Relay Corp. has rebranded its Broadband Relay video broadcasting service and VMCC off-site video management. The Broadband Relay service has been renamed eLiveStream while the VMCC offering is known as eArchive. With the eLiveStream, Web sites able to facilitate several video viewers simultaneously with lesser bandwidth requirements. Meanwhile, eArchive is stated to be most effective at sites having one or two cameras.

The article highlights a test of interoperability-certification procedures of Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)-equipped products held at the alliance's plugfest in San Diego, California in December 2005. Each of the eight alliance members at the event connected one of their products to a MoCA network to simultaneously transport three high definition and eight standard definition video systems. According to the alliance, its 270Mbps physical-layer speed yields a net usable 100Mbps of bandwidth at more than 97 percent of real-world homes. Participating companies during the plugfest include Actiontec, Entropic, Linksys, Motorola, Mototech, Panasonic, 2Wire and Westell.