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Fibre optic to dominate EU broadband market by 2010
News ADSL is only a transitory technology that will be overtaken by fibre optic solutions within 10 years, according to the European Commission. ADSL will make up 28 percent of the home surfing market -- down from its peak of 37 percent -- with 20...
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
BT fixing fibre-optic broadband problem
News Ironically, faster broadband services such as VDSL rely on a fibre-optic connection from a BT local exchange to a streetside cabinet, but this kind of technology isn't yet being commercially deployed.
[April 11, 2003, 14:39]
Intel claims quantum leap in fibre-optic detectors
News Intel has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that could cut the cost of fibre-optic communications to a fraction of their current value. Photodetectors — used in a range of applications, such as fibre-optic communications, image...
[December 8, 2008, 10:33]
The Day Ahead: Ciena, Sycamore stoke fibre optic love affair
News Ciena makes dense-wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems for use with long-distance fibre-optic telecommunications networks. That's why investors are jumping all over new fibre optic companies such as New Focus and the soon-to-be-public...
[May 19, 2000, 11:25]
Intel aims to make fibre optics mainstream
News At September's IDF, Intel demonstrated fibre-optic technology called Light Peak for connecting many devices to PCs with fibre-optic lines. Intel used USB ports for demos of its Light Peak technology for hot-pluggable, high-speed fibre-optic...
[September 29, 2009, 13:53]
Fibre-optic firm H2O changes its name to i3
News H2O Networks provides business networks using another fibre-optic technology, Darc (derestricted access route connections). H2O International, the only fully new division, will work with partner companies and organisations abroad to make i3's fibre...
[January 29, 2009, 15:38]
'Tunable' lasers revolutionise telecoms
News These tunable lasers will be one area of interest at this week's Optical Fibre Communication (OFC) 2001 conference in California which will feature dozens of advanced fibre-optic technologies and new startups.
[March 20, 2001, 13:20]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News Researchers at Xerox's Wilson Centre for Research and Technology announced on Wednesday that they have created a silicon chip about the size of a fingertip that contains switches and waveguides for fibre-optic communication.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
Critics carp at Cisco; Chambers shrugs
News Dzubeck thinks Cerent's technology, which connects fibre-optic networks and other kinds of networks, won't be as important two years down the road. The deals represent one of Cisco's most aggressive moves yet into the hot market for optical...
[August 27, 1999, 8:47]
'Opto-chip' could revolutionise telecommunications
News These so-called optical chips are in fact polymeric electro-optic modulators designed to act as a bridge between fibre optic cables and existing electronic devices. While networking companies have been pushing the levels of data that can be sent...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
'Noisy light' is new key to encryption
News This high-speed quantum cryptography method allowed the scientists to send encrypted data over a fibre-optic line at 250mbps (megabits per second), which the researchers said was more than 1,000 times faster than what was achievable with existing...
[November 15, 2002, 14:48]
Sun to shed light on supercomputing
News The higher speed is attained by sending four wavelengths of light through the same fibre optic cable, a technology known as dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM). Luxtera envisions future versions of its technology allowing data transfer on a...
[November 14, 2005, 8:35]
The Day Ahead: Lucent ups fibre optic ante
News Lucent Technologies entered the fibre optic game with its $4.5bn acquisition of privately held Chromatis Networks, which makes metro optical networking systems. Here's the fibre optic scorecard. If you had to pick the current fibre optic leader...
[June 1, 2000, 12:14]
Philadelphia pushes on with Wi-Fi plan
News Other projects in smaller or rural municipalities are digging up streets to install speedy fibre-optic lines into homes and businesses. In contrast, Verizon just introduced a new 3Mbps downstream DSL tier that costs $30 a month and plans to lace...
[April 8, 2005, 9:35]
World's largest quantum-encrypted network unveiled
News Packages of data are sent down fibre-optic cables in the form of particles of light — or photons — which are then received and converted back into data. He added that photons leaking from the fibre-optic cable over longer distances mean data...
[October 13, 2008, 9:42]
IBM turns up the transistor heat
News The first chips to use the new technology will likely be networking chips that help guide data on and off of high-speed fibre-optic lines. Now, with this technology, [Applied Micro Circuits] can continue to use silicon for the highest-performing...
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
Laser startup garners $50m in funding
News AirFiber is one of a handful of companies developing "free space" optical hardware, which transmits information over fibre-optic lasers in the open air. Without the need to dig up streets to lay fibre-optic wires, carrier customers are expected to...
[April 5, 2001, 14:09]
Start-up promotes 'unlimited' AMD clusters
News In addition, multiple systems can be yoked together with fibre-optic communication lines into even larger systems, Hurley said. That expandability is possible because of short communication delays between processors: less than 2µs across a fibre...
[May 10, 2005, 9:30]
Nanotubes shed new light on fibre optics
News Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fibre-optic technology. Besides its potential use in chips, fibre-optic technology also is already...
[May 2, 2003, 7:57]
Yesterday
Talkback Where are the fibre-optic lines into every house? ADSL was only meant to be a transitional technology run over old copper wires, and even here BT is hopelessly behind current standards.
[November 17, 2006, 10:15]
