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Free Space Optical Channel Characterization and Modeling With Focus on Algeria Weather Conditions

Free Space Optical Channel Characterization and Modeling With Focus on Algeria Weather Conditions

Free-Space Optics (FSO) is a wireless optical technology that enables optical transmission of data, voice and video communications through... Read more

1 April, 2012
Professional NIGHT VISION 007 1.0

Professional NIGHT VISION 007 1.0

...tool that is worthy of the most advanced spies. *** Creating the best optical technology for the iPhone, we have included in this program the most... Read more

22 July, 2011
Introducing Optical Switching in High-Capacity Commercial Routers

Introducing Optical Switching in High-Capacity Commercial Routers

...binary rates. In this paper, the authors study the benefits of introducing optical technology in the switch fabric architecture, to cope with this bottleneck. In... Read more

14 April, 2011
Assessment of an Optical DWDM Network as the Tanzanian ICT Backbone Infrastructure

Assessment of an Optical DWDM Network as the Tanzanian ICT Backbone Infrastructure

...made available to the majority of the population at an affordable cost. Optical technology by means of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) network has revolutionized... Read more

9 December, 2010
Optical Packet Buffers for Backbone Internet Routers

Optical Packet Buffers for Backbone Internet Routers

...often hold millions of packets, which is well beyond the capabilities of optical technology. In this paper, they argue that two new results offer a... Read more

1 October, 2010
A Tabu Search Approach for Joint Scheduling of Resources in a Lambda Grid Network

A Tabu Search Approach for Joint Scheduling of Resources in a Lambda Grid Network

...highly data-intensive demand high-performance computing platforms. Grid networks based on optical technology provide a promising approach to create efficient infrastructure to support such... Read more

1 June, 2010

IBM claims optical computing breakthrough

According to IBM, its latest optical developments mean data can be transmitted at 160Gb per second Read more

29 March, 2007 by Colin Barker
Leveraging <endeca_term>Optical Technology</endeca_term> in Future Bus-Based Chip Multiprocessors

Leveraging Optical Technology in Future Bus-Based Chip Multiprocessors

Although silicon optical technology is still in its formative stages, and the more near-term... Read more

16 October, 2006
Business Prospects of Wide-Scale Deployment of Free Space <endeca_term>Optical Technology</endeca_term> as a Last-Mile Solution: A Techno-Economic Evaluation

Business Prospects of Wide-Scale Deployment of Free Space Optical Technology as a Last-Mile Solution: A Techno-Economic Evaluation

A technoeconomic evaluation of the business prospects of a wide-scale deployment of Free Space Optical (FSO) technology... Read more

14 June, 2007

'Noisy light' is new key to encryption

...Northwestern professors Prem Kumar and Horace Yuen, used standard lasers and existing optical technology to transmit a large bundle of photons, the particles that make... Read more

15 November, 2002 by Sandeep Junnarkar
Optical Code Processing System, Device, and its Application

Optical Code Processing System, Device, and its Application

Recently, in spite of immatureness of optical technology, many optical code generation and processing technologies and related technologies have... Read more

1 February, 2010
Survivability for All-Optical Network Against Optical Attacks

Survivability for All-Optical Network Against Optical Attacks

The use of optical technology, in particular Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), has revolutionized the transmission of... Read more

1 January, 2010
Measurement and Performance Issues of Transport Protocols Over 10 Gbps High-Speed Optical Networks

Measurement and Performance Issues of Transport Protocols Over 10 Gbps High-Speed Optical Networks

With the integration of IP and optical technology, a high-speed optical network (of the order of 10Gbps) has... Read more

9 October, 2009
A Topology Aggregation Model for Survivability in Multi-Domain Optical Networks Using P-Cycles

A Topology Aggregation Model for Survivability in Multi-Domain Optical Networks Using P-Cycles

...important issue in optical networks due to the huge bandwidth offered by optical technology. Many works have studied network survivability. The majority of these works... Read more

10 August, 2009
Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks

Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks

With the advances in optical technology, the span of a broadband access network using Passive Optical Network... Read more

10 June, 2009

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