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Intel aims to make fibre optics mainstream
News You have probably heard about fibre optics for years — some kind of exotic technology used to carry gargantuan quantities of data across continents. Intel's Light Peak technology uses lasers and fibre optics to transfer data to and from PCs and...
[September 29, 2009, 13:53]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News But costs have come down over time, pushing fibre from long-distance communications to metropolitan networks. The chipmaker recently launched a new effort inside its Microprocessor Research Lab aimed at examining a move from using aluminium and...
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
Talkback I think the researchers should look into the new tech described in this article: Fibreless optical data transfer mooted http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39169059,00.htm With the cost of producing LED's signifigantly lower...
[October 12, 2004, 17:06]
Nanotubes shed new light on fibre optics
News The light emitted by the nanotubes featured a wavelength of 1.5 microns, the same wavelength used in fibre optics today, noted Avouris. Our work represents a step towards the integration of many fibre-optic communications devices on one chip," Ted...
[May 2, 2003, 7:57]
Ofcom and fibre optics for rural telephone connections
Talkback In other countries fibre optis is always put in with new housing projects and old copper wiring is or has been replaced with fibre when ever work has to be done on copper wiring - is it not time that this country stopped thinking that we have the...
[February 15, 2007, 10:03]
Light-emitting silicon boosts chip speeds
News British scientists are claiming a breakthrough that promises to unite microelectronics with fibre optics and bring about an upheaval in microprocessor manufacturing and modern communications. Silicon is one of the key building blocks of integrated...
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
There is a reason for the digital divide not mentioned here
Talkback There are no wide spread fibre optics networks available anywhere. It's time to dig up the roads and put in the fibre optics contry wide. BT still has a monopoly in many areas, even in the sourth east.
[August 28, 2008, 11:31]
'Tunable' lasers revolutionise telecoms
News A new technology in the fibre-optics market is striking the right note with investors and raising cash at a time when industry confidence is low and venture capital is hard to find. Similarly, Blue Sky Research, another fibre-optic component maker...
[March 20, 2001, 13:20]
BT clamps down on broadband use
Talkback Speaking of bandwidth, when will BT bite the bullet and start digging up the roads to install fibre optics to every home? As it appears to me, that BT are intentionally dragging their feet about putting in fibre optics.
[March 28, 2006, 13:48]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News Most projects to date have collapsed, said Gasman, who added that Xerox is likely overstating the importance of its new component in bringing fibre optics to the home and small businesses in the near future.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
Light 'slowed' to speed up data transfer
News The group will publish its findings in Optics Letters on 1 October. Right now, we are not taking full advantage of the 20 terahertz bandwidth that fibre can provide, because of the limitations of these optical-electronic-optical switching systems...
[September 29, 2004, 10:25]
Why can't other towns do the same
Talkback There are tens of small businesses in our small town which need fibre-optics based connections for their offices. What kind of business model for fincancing the fibre-optic network are they using? Would be interesting to know whether this can be...
[February 4, 2009, 12:54]
O2 may roll out fibre if Ofcom changes rules
News The spokesperson also pointed out that BT's fibre rollout would not reach all UK homes, but added that Carphone Warehouse itself had "no plans at this moment to invest in fibre optics". O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home...
[July 16, 2008, 15:59]
The Day Ahead: Ciena, Sycamore stoke fibre optic love affair
News Component company JDS Uniphase upped its revenue target Thursday, and both Nortel and Cisco are betting big on fibre optics. Not to be outdone by Ciena, Sycamore Networks, which also makes fibre optic networking gear, checked in with third quarter...
[May 19, 2000, 11:25]
Virgin Media to raise fibre-network capacity fourfold
News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester, and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies.
[May 12, 2008, 9:46]
Ethernet promises cheaper broadband
News However, few people have the necessary fibre-optics to their home or office, and service providers have so far based their networks on the rival ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) protocol. The Ethernet uplink from the DSLAM can be run on a spare...
[November 27, 2002, 9:18]
Chris Stening, MD Easynet Connect & UK Online
Talkback The question remains as to how the UK’s broadband should be delivered; through the existing copper phone network (DSL), fibre optics or wireless? Many argue that fibre is the only solution, resulting in copper being committed to the scrap heap...
[January 30, 2009, 16:06]
'Opto-chip' could revolutionise telecommunications
News Telecommunications companies already use fibre optics to send information around the world but transferring this information to electronic equipment has always been a bottleneck in transfer speeds. These so-called optical chips are in fact...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
Level 3's strategy: Vision or folly?
News The company spent billions of dollars on a 20,000-mile network through much of North America and parts of Europe, reaping the benefits of runaway investment in fibre optics during a late 1990s telecom boom.
[June 16, 2002, 7:32]
Buffett joins Level 3 investors
News The company, which has spent billions of dollars on a 20,000-mile network through much of North America and parts of Europe, reaped the benefits of runaway investment in fibre optics during a late-1990s telecom boom.
[July 8, 2002, 14:52]
