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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]
Lucent sells optical fibre business for $2.75bn
News Furukawa will pay $2.525bn for the bulk of the business, while Corning will shell out $225m in cash for Lucent's interests in Lucent's Chinese joint ventures, Lucent Technologies Shanghai Fiber Optic and Lucent Technologies Beijing Fiber Optic Cable.
[July 25, 2001, 10:38]
BT to run fast fibre to 2.5m homes
News BT will run optical fibre directly to 2.5 million UK homes and businesses for high-speed broadband access, a move that analysts say will give its network longer life. According to a company spokesperson, BT has been able to raise the proportion of...
[October 9, 2009, 16:57]
Tiny plastic tube helps computer communication
News Researchers at the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre have developed a small multichannel optical fibre that has the potential to improve the way that computer chips communicate with each other.
[January 6, 2004, 11:15]
Peregrine optical chips ready to fly
News The company will make public details on its new Flipped Optoelectric Chip next week at the Optical Fibre Communication Conference in Anaheim, Calif. Those speeds are good for data communication technologies, such as Fibre Channel, used in local...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
Intel claims quantum leap in fibre-optic detectors
News Photodetectors — used in a range of applications, such as fibre-optic communications, image sensors, datacentre interconnects and optical drives — have been significantly more expensive than a copper-based equivalent.
[December 8, 2008, 10:33]
'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]
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]
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. You've heard about the long-haul fibre buildouts by Qwest Communications, Global...
[June 1, 2000, 12:14]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News It would be very expensive to have a dedicated optical fibre line into your home," said Joel Kubby, a technical manager at Xerox's Webster, New York-based lab. UK-based QuantumBeam is looking at ways of connecting buildings to fibre through free...
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
'Noisy light' is new key to encryption
News In addition, telecommunications giant Verizon Communications is dabbling in quantum cryptography through one of its subsidiaries, BBN Technologies, which is working with Northwestern to develop commercial quantum cryptography prototype systems for...
[November 15, 2002, 14:48]
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]
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]
Belfast trial aims to boost NI broadband
News Virgin Media has installed optical fibre to a series of street cabinets around a new housing development. The Bytel Networks trial is limited to 10 houses and involves optical fibre cable right into the house.
[January 16, 2008, 11:45]
Researchers claim stealth encryption breakthrough
News The technique hinges on transmission of encrypted data in the "noise" of signals along fibre-optic cables. Their method take advantage of the fact fibre-optic systems inevitably have low levels of "noise" — the random jitters in the light waves...
[October 13, 2006, 16:00]
The Day Ahead: Ciena, Sycamore stoke fibre optic love affair
News Not to be outdone by Ciena, Sycamore Networks, which also makes fibre optic networking gear, checked in with third quarter earnings of a nickel a share, excluding charges. That's why investors are jumping all over new fibre optic companies such as...
[May 19, 2000, 11:25]
Chipset brings fibre closer to homes
News PON is an optical access technology that lets multiple homes or businesses in a neighbourhood share fibre from a service provider's central office. Freescale Semiconductor, a spinoff of Motorola, has developed an integrated chipset that it says...
[June 22, 2004, 9:15]
Light 'slowed' to speed up data transfer
News 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," said Pei-Cheng Hu, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley who wrote...
[September 29, 2004, 10:25]
Critics carp at Cisco; Chambers shrugs
News The deals represent one of Cisco's most aggressive moves yet into the hot market for optical networking, which uses fibre-optic cables to transmit data, voice and video across phone and data networks.
[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. Telecommunications companies already use fibre optics to send information around...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
