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OPTICAL ILLUSIONS - Tricks & Treats For Your Eyes
Downloads A slideshow of great optical illusions that prove the fact that 'what you see isn't always what you get'. A groovy application for your mobile phone that will literally make your eyes spin.
[June 10, 2008, 8:00]
Optical Burst Switching Network: A Multi-Layered Approach
White Papers This paper defines a new multi-layered architecture for supporting Optical Burst Switching (OBS) in an optical core network. The architecture takes into account both the control plane as well as the data plane.
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
10 Gb/s LAN Networking: Optical Fiber LAN Design Considerations
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to guide premise wiring telecommunications specialists through the decision making process regarding future optical fiber cabling implementations for LAN environments. One will go through the latest technology updates...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Embarcadero Technologies Case Study: Optical Solutions
White Papers Optical Solutions designs, manufactures, and markets the only true Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) Passive Optical Network (PON), for voice, video and data to Service Providers worldwide. Software in Optical Solutions' products is embedded, and because it...
[February 9, 2005, 23:00]
Optical Networking and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
White Papers This paper deals with the twin concepts of optical networking and dense wavelength division multiplexing. The paper talks about the various optical network architectures and the various components of an all-optical network like Optical Amplifiers...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Optical Fibers Pave the Way to Faster Broadband Access
White Papers As a leading supplier of broadband access networks, Alcatel has been driving forward the standardization and development of passive optical access technologies. The broadband market is already global in scale, and it is expected that it will...
[October 11, 2005, 3:00]
Optical Flow Switching
White Papers With the ubiquitous deployment of WDM in core networks in the last few years, long-haul transmission is now cheaper than router switching at core nodes; this is because the rate of decrease in cost per unit of optical fiber capacity is well below...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Demonstration of 2.5 Gbps Optical Burst Switched WDM Rings Network
White Papers Also, using a fast optical switch, one can reduce the guard time overhead. This paper demonstrates 2.5 Gbps OBS network testbed. Combined with a reliable control channel, a high speed data channel successfully operates in the burst mode.
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
The Emerging Optical Control Plane
White Papers Now, it's beginning to see the deployment of optical control planes that sit between the management and transport planes. Traditional transport networks can be modeled as the interaction of two operating planes: a transport plane and a management...
[August 30, 2009, 1:22]
UK start-up to commercialise optical silicon
News A start-up formed by the University of Surrey has received a feasibility grant from the Department of Trade and Industry to commercialise its research on integrating optical components into silicon chips, a technology that could ultimately lead to...
[November 5, 2003, 17:20]
Peregrine optical chips ready to fly
News A follow-on optical networking chip, due in 2002, will boast 10-gigabit speeds. The communications chipmaker will announce next week plans to apply its own silicon-on-sapphire technology, currently in wireless and satellite communications chips, to...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
Blu-Ray Disc Next-Generation Optical Storage: Protecting Content on the BD-Rom
White Papers Together, they provide the BD-ROM disc with a level of content protection not seen in previous and currently competing optical disc systems. The BD-ROM content protection system takes a three-pronged approach to content protection, offering state...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Fibreless optical data transfer mooted
News LEDs function in a manner similar to the light source inside optical fiber. So why haven't optical technology companies tried this? In the future, you might get your email through light bulbs. The Visible Light Communications Consortium, a group of...
[October 6, 2004, 9:40]
Samsung USB Optical Wheel Mouse (OMA3CB/OMGI30)
Downloads Samsung USB Optical Wheel Mouse (OMA3CB/OMGI30)
[May 8, 2002, 8:00]
Sionex Expands Breakthrough Chemical and Biological Sensor Business With Support From LightPointe's Optical Wireless Networking Solutions
White Papers When a board member suggested the company to consider optical wireless solutions based on Free-Space Optics (FSO) technology, they were open to evaluating it as a non-traditional alternative for building-to-building connectivity.
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
Specification of SLA Survivability Requirements for Optical Path Protected Connections
White Papers Future core networks will provide connectivity services using resilient optical connections, often protected by Dedicated Path Protection (DPP) or Shared-Backup Path Protection (SBPP). Connection survivability requirements are generally specified...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Nuggets: Iomega gets optical with CD-RW
News No surprise then that Iomega has gone all optical, announcing its first CD-RW drive -- the snappily titled ZipCD. Zip this. We all love those colourful, chunky Zip drives but everyone knows that CDs beat them hands down in terms of storage space...
[July 1, 1999, 14:41]
Samsung Optical Wheel Mouse USB Device for WindowXP
Downloads Samsung Optical Wheel Mouse USB Device for WindowXP
[November 30, 2001, 7:00]
