A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

ITU has released a new framework to guide the evolution of global optical connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...

The integration of network coding in optical networks heralds a transformative approach to managing the burgeoning demands of data traffic and the associated operational challenges. By incorporating ...

The developers detailed their achievement in a conference paper “A 3.19pJ/bit Electro-Optical Router with 18ns Setup Frame-Level Routing and 1-6 Wavelength Flexible Link Capacity for Photonic ...

NEC, a leading global IT and network transformation services provider, announced that it has been selected by Eletronet, a ...

Passive optical networks (PONs) constitute a critical underpinning of modern broadband infrastructure, enabling high-speed data transmission through cost‐effective, fibre‐based architectures.

AT&T announced last week its Optical Mesh Service, which offers customers the ability to set up a fully meshed optical network with fewer physical ports, bandwidth on demand and lower costs. The ...

As part of their plan to serve the surging bandwidth demands of wholesale and enterprise customers, Arelion and Ciena are claiming to have completed the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tbps) ...