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Alcatel-Lucent unveils 100Gbps optical-networking tech

...Lucent on Wednesday said that it will launch the first commercially available optical networking technology that can carry 100Gbps on a wavelength. The company said... Read more

10 June, 2010 by Larry Dignan
Bell Labs throws open the doors to its research

Bell Labs throws open the doors to its research

The Alcatel-Lucent R&D team shows off its latest projects, including how it has married two types of alternative energy to power mobile masts Read more

3 June, 2010 by David Meyer
<endeca_term>Optical Networking</endeca_term> for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Communications

Optical Networking for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Communications

Modern optical networking techniques have the potential to greatly extend the applicability of quantum... Read more

9 March, 2011
Design and Analysis of Virtual Bus Transport Using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy/Synchronous <endeca_term>Optical Networking</endeca_term>

Design and Analysis of Virtual Bus Transport Using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy/Synchronous Optical Networking

...service access at high data rates is Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)/Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET). For that reason, the authors develop SDH/SONET as a... Read more

1 January, 2011
SDC Testbed: Software Defined Communications Testbed for Wireless Radio and <endeca_term>Optical Networking</endeca_term>

SDC Testbed: Software Defined Communications Testbed for Wireless Radio and Optical Networking

This paper describes the development of a new Software Defined Communications (SDC) testbed architecture. SDC aims to... Read more

12 January, 2011
Packet <endeca_term>Optical Networking</endeca_term> Platforms: Delivering the Connected Experience

Packet Optical Networking Platforms: Delivering the Connected Experience

If one is not already producing or using large amounts of online data, they soon will be. Rich media file sharing;... Read more

28 June, 2010
Lightpath Scheduling and Routing for Green Data Centres

Lightpath Scheduling and Routing for Green Data Centres

Optical networking technologies enable data centres to be located near sources of green... Read more

14 September, 2011

Cisco taps Lightwire for optical interconnects

...Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Lightwire. "The Lightwire acquisition builds on Cisco's existing optical networking expertise and complements Cisco's 2010 acquisition of CoreOptics, a designer... Read more

24 February, 2012

US links supercomputers at 100 gigabits a second

...of-the-art from the commercial world. The system will use new optical networking technology designed to reduce the number of routers used and ease... Read more

15 November, 2011 by Martin LaMonica
Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

...it can be manufactured and used like any other electronic component. Current optical networking components need specialist techniques of construction and use, which increases their... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Dimensioning the Future Pan-European Optical Network With Energy Efficiency Considerations

Dimensioning the Future Pan-European Optical Network With Energy Efficiency Considerations

...was dimensioned using traffic predictions based on realistic data generated by the optical networking roadmap developed in the framework of the European project Building the... Read more

1 April, 2011
FiberLight, LLC Connects to New Markets

FiberLight, LLC Connects to New Markets

...critical, high-performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and Dedicated IP, Synchronous Optical NETworking (SONET), and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Their challenge is... Read more

31 March, 2011
A New Network Paradigm: Cutting Cost, Space and Energy Use

A New Network Paradigm: Cutting Cost, Space and Energy Use

...goals by deploying an advanced optical LAN solution, based on Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) technology Read more

28 February, 2011
Fulfilling Technology Needs for 40G-100G Network-Centric Operations and Warfare

Fulfilling Technology Needs for 40G-100G Network-Centric Operations and Warfare

...military's many separate networks relies on high-speed packet transport and optical networking. Altera's 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs combine the flexibility needed... Read more

1 September, 2010

The Day Ahead: New Focus eyes strong IPO

The initial public offering of New Focus, an optical networking company, is expected to be so well-received that Renaissance Capital... Read more

16 May, 2000 by Larry Dignan

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