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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 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 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]
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]
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]
MPLS in Optical Networks
White Papers An analysis of the features of MPLS and Generalized MPLS and their application to Optical Networks, with reference to the Link Management Protocol and Optical UNI. With the success of MPLS in packet switched IP networks, optical network providers...
[June 22, 2007, 6:34]
Toshiba unveils new optical drives
News Toshiba on Tuesday announced new optical drives for mobile computers and portable projectors with updated features. The company's storage device division said its new optical disk drives will provide higher media recording speeds for mobile computers.
[August 27, 2003, 12:20]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Polish Municipal Government Leverages LightPointe Optical Wireless Solution to Extend Network & Preserve Historic Town District
White Papers Yet even as plans were drawn and renovation was started, one nagging question remained: how to physically extend the LAN between both locations - a total distance of some 60 meters across a street - at optical speeds in a city center that lacks...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
Cisco extends optical range
News With long-haul optical networking in a parlous state, Cisco is launching products for the parts of the market where it sees the strongest future: a multi-service SDH platform and a Metro DWDM switch for enterprises and local service providers.
[June 25, 2002, 13:28]
Samsung USB Optical Wheel Mouse (OMA3CB/OMGI30)
Downloads Samsung USB Optical Wheel Mouse (OMA3CB/OMGI30)
[May 8, 2002, 8:00]
On the Throughput-Cost Tradeoff of Multi-Tiered Optical Network Architectures
White Papers This paper conducts a throughput-cost study of several optical network architectures: Optical Flow Switching (OFS), Tell-and-Go (TaG), Electronic Packet Switching (EPS), and Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS).
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
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]
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]
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]
