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RSS optical networkPeter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment Optical fibre, wi-fi, WiMax, 3G, 4G and IP are real game changers and very real opportunities. Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi network in a London... [23 Nov 2009]
FTTX TCO Comparison - Obtaining Faster Time to Revenue
White Paper The prohibitive expense of optical components at one time meant fiber access deployments were reserved for only the largest of service providers. As network service providers and equipment suppliers... [13 Nov 2009]
Packet Transport Solutions for Transportation Network Evolution: Increase Flexibility and Reliability While Optimizing the Convergence of New Ethernet/IP Services
White Paper 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... [02 Oct 2009]
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks With Tiny Buffers
White Paper If proven right, these results can open doors to building all-optical routers, since a major bottleneck in building such routers is the lack of large optical memories. However, reducing buffer sizes... [02 Oct 2009]
The Emerging Optical Control Plane
White Paper Now, it's beginning to see the deployment of optical control planes that sit between the management and transport planes. In this model, the transport plane carries the user data and comprises network... [30 Aug 2009]
Transformation of the Enterprise Network Using Passive Optical LAN
White Paper Enterprises facing such disruptive change to either an existing enterprise site or a new enterprise site have the opportunity to dramatically reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by moving to a Passive Optical LAN (POL)... [15 Aug 2009]
The Journey Forward: Passive Optical LAN for the Corporate Wide Enterprise - How Passive Optical LAN Solutions Enable The-Journey to Enterprise IT Resource Optimization
White Paper Based on the same proven and standards based technology as Verizon's successful FiOS service, a Passive Optical LAN (POL) is a point-to-multipoint network in which a single aggregation switch provides... [04 Aug 2009]
40G to 100G - What's All the Fuss About Optical Gigabits?
White Paper Today's 10 gigabit per second (10G) optical networks form the high-speed, backbone core for communications, spanning nations and linking continents into a seamless global village. And, that potential within each tiny... [31 Jul 2009]
An Introduction to Resilient Packet Rings
White Paper Advanced Ethernet capabilities - coupled with the reach, scale and reliability strengths of optical networking products - enable a ubiquitous service plane for profitable, next-generation services such as triple and... [31 Jul 2009]
Next Generation OTN Transport Solution
White Paper The Optical Transport Network (OTN) technology introduces such a solution, while offering flexibility for new services. The Optical Transport Hierarchy, OTH, is a new transport... [29 May 2009]
City traders move to the sewers
News Optical fibre network provider, Geo, has opened a new high-capacity network for financial trading organisations to carry out automated trades more efficiently. The use of... [07 May 2009]
Windows 7: One year to try before you buy
News The omission of another feature - the ability to have thumbdrives or any media other than optical disks autorun - was announced by Microsoft on Tuesday. Asked how this would affect, for example, Linux distributions that... [30 Apr 2009]
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Secures New Data Center With End-to-End D-Link PoE Network Camera Solution
White Paper The university eventually purchased 30 D-Link Network PoE cameras - 40% with digital zoom DCS-5300 and 60% with optical zoom DCS-6620. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston built a... [30 Apr 2009]
Innovation Network Lecture Series: EPC RFID Tags in Security Applications: Passport Cards, Drivers Licenses, and Beyond
White Paper Electronic Product Code (EPC) tags are industry-standard Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices poised to supplant optical barcodes in many applications. They are prevalent in case and pallet tracking, and... [30 Apr 2009]
System-Level Model for OFDM WiMAX Transceiver in Radiation Environment
White Paper WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), an evolving standard for point-to-multipoint wireless networking, works for the "last mile" connections for replacing optical fiber technology... [23 Apr 2009]
