CLEARWATER, FL — 10/20/09 — Digital Lightwave®, Inc. (OTCBB: DIGL), a leading provider of optical networking test equipment and technology, today announced the USB FibreVu(TM) Probe, a digital video inspection probe for fiber optic connector end faces, and detection/analysis of connector defects.
With the USB FibreVu Probe, the user can see the fiber end face magnified on a PC screen or on a Digital Lightwave NIC’s color touchscreen with up to 1500x magnification. Adapter tips are available to support all common connectors used in telecommunications, including LC, SC, ST, FC, MU …

ASHEVILLE — State officials say they are changing an alternative being considered for the Interstate 26 Connector at the request of city officials and residents, and will look at other suggested changes.
N.C. Department of Transportation officials said Monday they will study routing I-26 traffic underneath Patton Avenue just west of the Smoky Park Bridge, rather than relying on a bridge over Patton Avenue.
Members of a group that helped develop the so-called Alternative 4B said the shift dramatically improves chances Patton Avenue would become a route for pedestrians and bicyclists moving …

ATLANTA — Pipe product maker Anvil International LP said Friday it plans to sell some assets of its electrical fittings business, Picoma, to steel pipe producer John Maneely Co.
Under an agreement between the two companies, John Maneely will transfer some assets of Seminole Tubular Products, its plumbing fittings business.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Anvil is a unit of Atlanta-based Mueller Water Products Inc., which makes infrastructure and flow control products. John Maneely Co. is a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group, a private equity fund.
The transaction is expected to close in mid-November …

Printed circuit board (PCB) production will decline 20% to $40.5 billion in 2009 because of weaker demand for electronics equipment caused by the global economic downturn, according to a study by trade association IPC.
The world market for PCBs had reached $50.8 billion in 2008, up 1% over 2007. Growth in global board production will resume in 2010 when the market grows to $43.5 billion worldwide.
The value of North American board production is expected to end 2009 at about $3.49 billion, about 15% below 2008, when production totaled $4.1 billion. However, …

As Metro tries to achieve regional consensus on how the Portland area should grow, Clackamas and Washington County officials are fighting over a long-studied transportation project.
At issue is the Interstate 5-to-Highway 99W Connector Project. In February a steering committee of state, county and local officials recommended a series of road projects to improve east-west traffic access between Wilsonville, Tualatin and Sherwood. But on Oct. 8, the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners told a Metro advisory committee that it opposed the project.
Wilsonville Mayor Tim Knapp says the opposition is largely based …