optical
RSS opticalBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Fibre broadband comes in two flavours: FTTC, where optical cable is laid as far as the curbside cabinet, with existing copper lines being used for the last mile; and fibre to the home (FTTH), where... [05 Nov 2009]
Performance Evaluation of Single-Mode and Multimode Fiber in LAN Environment
White Paper Optical networks are high capacity networks that meet the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth in the terrestrial telecommunications industry. This is achieved by observing the pulse spreading and attenuation in... [09 Oct 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 technologies. [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. Recently, several papers have... [02 Oct 2009]
Protect Your Business Information: Prevent Document Deterioration, Misuse and Loss With EDM
White Paper Security concerns are in the news a lot lately. The government has issued public alerts against terrorist activity. Military experts are debating how to maximize armed forces' safety amid intensified conflict in Afghanistan. [02 Oct 2009]
Regulatory Compliance: The Art of Being Prepared
White Paper In the paper-based world of yesteryear, producing documents quickly on demand was complicated, with damaged, destroyed, or unreadable files due to fire, water leaks, humidity, illegible writing, or deteriorated microfiche. [02 Oct 2009]
BPM Success: Integration Is the Key
White Paper Business software integrations are similar, except a well-conceived integration delivers information with efficiency and consistency that vastly exceeds human potential. Integration makes it possible to tap into the tangle of business... [02 Oct 2009]
Looking Beyond the Open Source and SaaS Marketing Hype: Why Fast and Cheap ECM Deployment Is a Bad Idea
White Paper If one listens to the marketing hype, Open Source and SaaS ECM seem almost too good to be true. The new kids on the block have been getting a lot of press lately as they scramble to find their niche. And on the surface, it looks like... [02 Oct 2009]
Hospital Revenue Cycle Management: Coordinating Data for Clean Claims and Better Service
White Paper Together, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) remove the burden of tracking and organizing, inform workers when tasks require special attention, and let employees focus their skills and energies... [19 Sep 2009]
Deluxe Service on a Lean Budget: Lower Costs While Raising the Bar on Your Institution's Performance
White Paper Recent issues of Campus Technology, University Business, and the Educause Review sport prominent articles about doing more with less. The Educause association's current issues committee put "Funding IT" in first place on its 2009 Top-Ten... [19 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet, Windows 7, Nokia mini laptop, 3D printers and future mobiles
Photo Photo credit: Electro Optical Systems August saw this futuristic-looking machine, the ULTra personal rapid transit (PRT) vehicle, on display at London's Science Museum. The driverless ULTra will take passengers to... [02 Sep 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. Traditional transport networks can be modeled as the interaction of two operating planes: a... [30 Aug 2009]
A 200-Mbps 2-Gbps Continuous-Rate Clock-and-Data-Recovery Circuit
White Paper 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... [29 Aug 2009]
Bell Helicopter Depends on HP StorageWorks Disk Arrays to Keep Test Program Flying
White Paper Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.replaced slow optical-disk storage with three HP StorageWorks 1500 Modular Smart Arrays and two MSL6030 Tape Libraries, upgrade 10 HP AlphaServer systems, and obtain a five-year support... [28 Aug 2009]
Photos: Forget paper - meet the printer that can print your car parts
Photo One such 3D printer, made by a company called Electro Optical Systems, was on show at the Science Museum in London this week. Photo credit: (top and bottom) Electro Optical Systems Photo credit: Electro... [27 Aug 2009]
