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Tech Firms Urged To Focus On Electromagnetics
News The report highlights four key areas: optical telecoms switches that would be much faster than current networks which use electric signals for routing and data storage; advanced CCTV cameras that would "search" people remotely by monitoring...
[May 4, 2004, 12:35]
Approaching The All-Optical Network
White Papers All-optical switches will sit at the foundation in the infrastructure of the next-generation service provider. And because of a variety of environmental considerations, all-optical switches are more suitable for building the optical Internet than...
[September 23, 2003, 0:00]
TCP Switching: Exposing Circuits To IP
White Papers As a result, very high capacity all-optical circuit switches are feasible today (e.g. WDM, MEMs, and wavelength conversion systems), whereas all-optical packet switches are a long way from being commercially practical, because people still do not...
[December 11, 2003, 23:00]
Simple Wavelength Assignment Protocol
White Papers Because optical switches have larger switching times than electronic switches, and wavelength conversion is expensive, wavelength "label" swapping is not easily done. This paper describes an optical label switching signaling protocol, SWAP, which...
[October 14, 2003, 0:00]
US Energy Dept Hands Out $20m For Tech Research
News Optical communications, in which equipment sends information encoded as pulses of light, is an area of active research into bypassing the limits of electrical data transmission. The gear to handle the optical signals, however, is expensive and...
[November 4, 2003, 11:25]
Intelligent Optical Networks - The Next Wave In Broadband Communication
White Papers Optical technology has come a long way from being used solely as a transmission medium to being used in the creation of a complete network with a mesh of optical switches. Optical technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace with various activities.
[October 21, 2004, 0:00]
Digital Signal Processing Solutions In Optical Networking
White Papers Optical networking applications discussed include fiber-optic control loops for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and MEMS-based optical switches. This white paper introduces Texas Instruments (TI) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions for optical...
[October 29, 2007, 23:00]
SIP Infrastructure For Next Generation Networks
White Papers XM Networks also concentrates on leveraging its advanced telecommunication technologies, edge-network products such as software switches and the optical access-network devices to deliver the ubiquitous broadband IP-network era.
[December 17, 2004, 23:00]
Just-in-Time Optical Burst Switching Implementation In The ATDnet All-Optical Networking Testbed
White Papers This paper describes the architecture of an Optical Burst Switched (OBS) demonstration network overlaying the ATDnet transparent all-optical testbed, and experiments performed to date in the testbed. Data paths are all-optical and completely...
[March 1, 2007, 23:00]
The George Washington University Supports Educational Excellence With Switching, Optical, Security, And Wireless Solutions From Cisco Systems
White Papers By implementing a Cisco Systems data center solution, combining Cisco switches and optical platforms, George Washington is better able to protect its data center resources, optimize its operations, and support future growth in the user base and in...
[July 15, 2004, 0:00]
Sentre Partners Boosts Value Of Commercial Properties With Cisco Intelligent Building Network Architecture
White Papers At One America Plaza, SENTRE installed Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 3550 Series switches to connect the building's high-speed building optical network (BON). Designed for business services aggregation, modular Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series switches deliver...
[December 10, 2004, 23:00]
LightPointe Case Study: United Arab Emirates University
White Papers Consequently, the university's staff decided to investigate alternative solutions and instead opted for an optical wireless solution from LightPointe. However, to do so would have meant a complex and costly infrastructure deployment, involving...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
Buffers, Queues And Thresholds On Catalyst 6500 Ethernet Modules
White Papers This paper does not discuss the Cisco 7600 Optical Services Module (OSM) interfaces or the new SIP and SPA modules that are also supported in the Catalyst 6500 series switches. With the wide variety of Ethernet modules currently available on the...
[May 31, 2007, 0:00]
Simplifying IP Networking With The 5E-XC Switch
White Papers One of the next-generation IP services supported by the 5E-XC Optical Interface Unit (OIU) on the 5ESS Switch is packet trunking. The OIU will support TDM OC-3/STM-1 interfaces as well as Packet Over SONET/SDH (POS) OC-3c/STM-1 interfaces, allowing...
[September 19, 2003, 0:00]
Enabling IP Trunking With Minimal IP Network Infrastructure And Multiple Redundancy Options
White Papers One of the next-generation IP services supported by the 5E-XC Optical Interface Unit (OIU) on the 5ESS Switch is packet trunking. The OIU will support TDM OC-3/STM-1 interfaces as well as Packet Over SONET/SDH (POS) OC-3c/STM-1 interfaces, allowing...
[October 28, 2007, 23:00]
Community College Deploys Resilient, High Speed Network To Deliver New Services And Simplify Administration
White Papers The college deployed Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Network connecting all the colleges' campuses and the network operations center, Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 3750 Series switches and Cisco Intrusion Detection Systems Network Module and Cisco Firewall...
[January 10, 2008, 23:00]
Centralized Network Administration: The Network That Pays For Itself
White Papers As LAN speeds increase and users invest in high performance optical fiber cables, many users are implementing data networks with centralized electronics versus distributed electronics in the building.
[March 3, 2008, 23:00]
RAD Helps China Telecom To Reduce Opex Costs, Accelerate Provisioning Of Broadband Services To Millions Of Subscribers
White Papers The AMC-101 provides retimed or transparent conversion of optical and electrical signals for ATM, SDH/SONET and other protocols at data rates up to 155 Mbps. Guangdong Datacom Bureau (GDB), which owns the fastest growing broadband network...
[October 27, 2004, 0:00]
The Day Ahead: Corvis IPO Set To Soar On Promising Products
News Corvis offers optical gateways, amplifiers, multiplexers and switches. Corvis would make things much more efficient with its gear, which can transmit optical signals up to 3,200 kilometres compared to 400 to 600 kilometres for traditional equipment.
[July 28, 2000, 12:38]
Networking Tech To Sweep The Web
News Analysts also expect Ciena, Tellabs, Sycamore Networks and others to show off new optical switches, technology that not only transmits data over networks that run between cities, but also allows carriers to better manage the traffic.
[June 4, 2001, 15:31]
