Intel gets optical with fibre
News It's going to take a number of years, but optical fibre is going to get inside your PC. Intel's Components Research Lab is working on ways to replace copper wiring between motherboards and chips inside computers with faster, more energy-efficient...
[March 1, 2004, 14:25]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News That's because it's cheaper to run a number of copper wires than a single optical fibre, because of the cost and complexity of adding a laser on one end and a receiver on the other to transmit optical signals.
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
Intel's Light Peak aims to replace today's cables
News In addition, Intel said it is working on bundling the optical fibre with copper wire so Light Peak can be used to power devices plugged into the PC, he said. Intel on Wednesday unveiled technology called Light Peak that it hopes ultimately will...
[September 24, 2009, 9:44]
Home fibre broadband hits landmark
News Sweden is the most advanced user of FTTH — which uses optical fibre for last-mile connections to users' premises and promises super high-speed broadband — with 27 percent of fat pipe users getting their internet access from FTTH.
[March 2, 2007, 10:24]
South West England to power up business broadband
News Surf Telecoms, the telecoms division of utility company Western Power Distribution, is offering broadband to businesses in the Southwest of Britain thanks to a deal with Neos, a national optical network, as well as using Surf's own fibre network.
[October 31, 2002, 9:40]
World's largest quantum-encrypted network unveiled
News Voice over IP and videoconferencing data is being transmitted over the network which uses existing optical fibre connections owned by tech giant Siemens. In the past, quantum cryptography has only really focused on point-to-point connections, but...
[October 13, 2008, 9:42]
Sun to shed light on supercomputing
News That feature, combined with Luxtera's longer-distance optical connections, raises the possibility of building a computer with no electrical wires except the tiny ones within the chips themselves. The higher speed is attained by sending four...
[November 14, 2005, 8:35]
Cisco extends optical range
News Sonet and SDH are the European and US protocols evolved for carrying voice and data on fibre rings. DWDM uses several wavelengths of laser light to multiply the data carried on a fibre -- the 15530 only supports four wavelengths, while the 15540...
[June 25, 2002, 13:28]
BT offers London-wide Ethernet LANs
News The Ethernet Virtual LAN (EVLAN) service extends BT's existing LAN/SAN extension service, which uses fibre connections to make Ethernet links between places up to 25km apart and is currently being rolled out to all London schools in a Government...
[September 14, 2005, 15:45]
Intel splits light to speed chips
News The ability to build a fast photonic (fibre optic) modulator from silicon could lead to low-cost, high-bandwidth fibre-optic connections between PCs, servers and other electronic devices, and eventually between chips inside computers as well.
[February 17, 2004, 9:30]
IBM claims optical chip breakthrough
News Researchers at IBM have published a paper demonstrating how optical signals — photons that represent data — travelling within a microprocessor can be delayed, a key element in developing chips that can relay signals with optical fibre.
[December 21, 2006, 7:45]
Sony VAIO VGN-TX2XP/L review
Reviews Its carbon fibre lid is slate grey, with subtle patterning that makes it -- from a distance at any rate -- actually look like slate. The TX2XP/L's 24.5cm-wide screen has two important design consequences: the system has room for both an optical...
[February 20, 2006, 12:20]
Ofcom report uncovers business comms gripes
News In October BT announced plans to run optical fibre directly to 2.5 million UK homes and businesses for high-speed broadband access, a decision the company said was based partly on assurances received from Ofcom.
[December 9, 2009, 15:07]
Fibre access essential says industry group
News Although wireless technologies will play a part," the report continues, "the move to next-generation broadband will require the deployment of optical fibre deeper into the local access network, either to the street cabinet or directly to the...
[April 16, 2007, 13:18]
Outgoing BT chief hints at fibre rollout
News This refers to optical fibre being laid out between BT's exchanges and the street cabinets to which individual premises are connected, a halfway measure also known as VDSL2 (very high-speed digital subscriber line 2).
[July 19, 2007, 14:40]
HP picks academic institutions for research funding
News According to HP, a number of projects will focus on the science of photonics, which has potential applications in optical fibre communications and could one day spell the death of copper connections in blades and semiconductors.
[August 15, 2008, 15:12]
Cisco lifts lid on Metro Ethernet advances
News Critics of Metro Ethernet have suggested that business and consumers are not yet ready to pay for broadband connectivity over fibre, and that telcos who are still rolling out slower, copper-based services like DSL are not prepared to invest in...
[January 20, 2004, 14:55]
BT outage cuts City leased lines
News Optical fibre had to be replaced at a key exchange. Leased lines provide high-speed, always-on connections to large businesses, and BT's Megastream service can carry high volumes of data and voice traffic over links that vary from 2Mbit/sec...
[August 23, 2001, 8:40]
