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- Fiber Optics
- Refers to systems that use optical fibers. Fiber- optic communications networks have transformed the world. Barely starting in the late 1960s but gaining serious momentum in the 1980s,...
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- Light Peak fiber optic connector to replace Firewire, USB, monitor cables
- A new interconnect technology called Light Peak is being developed by Apple as a potential replacement for FireWire, USB and traditional monitor cables. Engadget reports that Apple brought the technology to Intel and asked them to create it. According to documents we've seen and conversations we've had, Apple had...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Robotic ferret to detect hidden drugs and weapons
- The monumental task of inspecting containers that come in to and out of seaports and airports may get a bit easier with a new type of robot being developed to detect drugs, weapons, explosives and illegal immigrants concealed in cargo containers. [caption id="attachment_1589" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Credit: Hammer411...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Packet Transport Solutions for Transportation Network Evolution: Increase Flexibility and Reliability While Optimizing the Convergence of New Ethernet/IP Services
- Transportation service operators manage multiple networks that enable a variety of operations and business applications. The majority of these networks were built on Time Division Multiplexing TDM, Synchronous Optical Network SONET, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy SDH, Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM, or frame relay technologies. But Ethernet/IP-based applications are integrated to support...
- White papers 2009-05-15
- Fiber sabotage reward jumps; more damage discovered
- If there were a show called CSI: Silicon Valley, this could be the pilot episode. It appears that the Case of the Silicon Valley Fiber Line Cuts has taken a few more turns today. First, AT&T has upped its reward to $250,000 - not even 24 hours...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer
- The fiber-optic outage---actually sabotage---in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals or terrorists to bring communication to its knees. While it's unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 now $250,000 reward...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- News to know: Conficker; Patch Tuesday; Fiber optic sabotage; App Easter eggs
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 8 bulletins, 5 critical Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model Dancho Danchev: Fake "Conficker Infection...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- AT&T offers $100K reward in fiber optic vandalism; notes second incident
- updated below: No matter all of the advancements in wireless and mobile technology, at the end of the day, we're all still connected to a big wire somewhere. Early this morning, we discovered that one of those big wires is located under a busy Silicon Valley roadway....
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?
- The Australian federal government plans to build its own fiber to the home network. Renai LeMay at ZDNet AU reports that the Australian government didn't get any viable proposals from the big telecom players. Instead, the government will build its own network in partnership with the private...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- New law sinks Swedish net traffic
- Wow, maybe Draconian anti-piracy laws really do work. Two days after a new law went into effect in Sweden, Internet traffic has nose-dived and it's yet to pick up, Computerworld reports. The law allows copyright holders to trace IP addresses to individuals, thus making filesharing officially non-anonymous....
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- A 200-Mbps 2-Gbps Continuous-Rate Clock-and-Data-Recovery Circuit
- With the aid of wave-length division multiplexing technique, several optical communication systems, such as SDH/SONET and 10 GBased Ethernet, allow the information to be exchanged with different bit rates at the same time in the optical domain. The retiming circuits have to detect the bit rate from the incoming data...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Polymer Optical Fiber for EtherNet/IP Networks
- As EtherNet/IP moves into the machine area, environmental conditions become a concern. In some applications were EMI is high, fiber cabling can provide a higher degree of noise immunity. In the past, the total cost of ownership using fiber is considerably greater than the copper variant. This has hindered the...
- White papers 2009-02-25
- DirecTV, Verizon FiOS lead in offering HD channels
- If you believed the commercials, it would be clear that Comcast is the leader when it comes to providing the most HD programming. But anyone who has Comcast as their cable provider knows that the cable giant makes that claim based on the amount of on-demand high-def programming it makes...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- ONS-TDM-SONET - Optical Network Systems Time Division Multiplexing SONET v8.5
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this lab-intensive course, you will get an introduction to the Cisco Optical Network System ONS Time Division Multiplexing TDM family of transport products. The ONS 15454, ONS 15310-MA, and ONS 15310-CL are SONET transport system components that can be mixed and matched to create high-speed...
- Training 2009-02-01
- Converged Optical Ethernet: OnSite OS-10 Multi-Services Over SDH Provisioning
- Most service providers have existing SDH networks that have proven indispensable in serving revenue-critical TDM-based private line services. SDH is firmly established as the technology of choice for general-purpose transport in telecom networks because of its flexibility, reliability, ease of provisioning and multi-vendor interoperability. The advancements of SDH technology, embodied...
- White papers 2009-01-26
- Cost-Effective Burst-Over-Circuit-Switching in a Hybrid Optical Network
- All optical switching has been proposed as a candidate to allow high capacity networking in the future. Currently, Optical Circuit Switching has been widely deployed, although this approach is potentially bandwidth-inefficient for small granularity flows and needs relatively long set-up times. Research is being done into Optical Packet Switching OPS...
- White papers 2008-11-10
- The world's first optical firewall?
- According to ICT Results, researchers for a EU-funded project named WISDOM are developing an optical firewall which aims to clear Internet security bottlenecks. WISDOM is an acronym for 'Wirespeed security domains using optical monitoring.' The project started in June 2006 and should be completed in May 2009 for a total...
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Optical fibers with a silicon core?
- According to the Optical Society of America, U.S. researchers have been able to create a practical optical fiber with a silicon core. As they were able to use the same commercial methods that are used to develop all-glass fibers, this might pave the way for future silicon fibers as viable...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Fiber to the node vs. fiber to the home
- Pieter Poll, CTO of Qwest, discusses the difference between fiber to the node and fiber to the home service. He says Qwest strives to reduce homeowners' construction costs, while still bringing their customers the fastest Internet possible. by Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Short clip: Qwest on fiber to the node vs. fiber to the home
- Pieter Poll, CTO of Qwest, discusses the difference between fiber to the node and fiber to the home service. He says Qwest strives to reduce homeowners' construction costs, while still bringing their customers the fastest Internet possible.
- Videos 2008-10-21
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
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