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 newly released 1.0 specifications are for the physical media dependent layer and transmission convergence layer ...

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 ...

POET Technologies is climbing the value ladder, transitioning from supplying optical engines to offering full optical transceiver modules. Its optical interposer combines photonic and electronic parts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone is a company not widely known in the United States, but I believe that will change soon. Based in ...

In a landmark achievement for network bandwidth transport, Arelion and Ciena have successfully completed the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tb/s) wavelengths data transmission in a live ...

Finnish networking giant Nokia Corp. has announced plans to acquire Infinera Corp. in a $2.3 billion deal that’s intended to help grow its optical networks business. The company, which makes ...

Rapid deployment of high-speed, high-traffic fiber-optic networks is fueling the global economy. Bandwidth-hungry Internet, web-hosting, and e-commerce applications continue to force network growth.

In December 2024, Japanese tech giant NTT revealed two impressive feats of high-speed networking.… Working with Hitachi Vantara, the company virtualized a pair of storage arrays into a single logical ...

As it looks to support vastly increased data demand and enable hyperscale applications, Philippines fibre broadband and technology provider Converge ICT Solutions is deploying the Apollo optical ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...