As the Internet transitions from a best-effort network to a strategic global IP infrastructure, demands will not only be for higher bandwidth, but also for a wider range of integrated services ...

A group of MIT researchers led by Vincent Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has demonstrated a new way of organizing optical networks that, in ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Hideyuki Tokuda, Ph.D.) has successfully demonstrated a world-record for switching capacity of 53.3 Tb/s for short ...

NII, NTT, Inc. and NTT EAST, Inc. have successfully demonstrated the world's first automated optical transport layer control, ...

John Donne stated in 1623 that “No man is an island, entire of itself…” in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII. Human beings do not thrive when isolated and, thus, his sermon ...

Researchers have developed an ultra-small and fast electrically pumped all-optical memory on a silicon chip with record low power consumption. This result paves the way for optical packet switching ...

Who says software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) is just for startups? Adara and Calient, two non-startups with heritages that date back to the late 90s, are tackling this market by combining ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled end-to-end packet optical networking solutions, today announced it has expanded its metro packet optical networking ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Ciena Corporation introduced new packet capabilities for its 6500 packet-optical platform. New E-Suite packet modules for the 6500, featuring Ciena's service aware packet operating ...

The Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) is claiming a world-record for optical switching capacity: 53.3Tbit/s in short-reach data-centre networks. “This ...

Hailed as the “next big thing” in computing during the 1980s, optical technology was supposed to revolutionize everything from networks to processors. But the pace of research cooled when materials ...