Mario
Paniccia, director of Intel’s photonics lab in Santa Clara, CA, announced, “Our new integrated optical link makes that possible.”
Read the
article written in the MIT Technology Review website for this exciting development.
Showing posts with label optical equipment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label optical equipment. Show all posts
Friday, December 28, 2012
Fiber Optic Chips in Computers a Reality
The communications network has fiber optic sections and in
some cases fiber optic cable directly to the home or business. However, those
transmissions are converted to analog (copper or coax wire) signals to interact
with landline phones, televisions and computers. If these devices contained
fiber optic components, communications would transmit at the speed of light.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
CenturyLink's 100 Gbps Backbone and Metro Upgrade
The ever advancing telecom network takes another leap forward at CenturyLink.
Pieter Poll, Senior Vice President of national and international network planning, engineering and construction for CenturyLink expects the carrier’s U.S. 100 Gbps wavelength service deployment, to be popular with large enterprise, government and wholesale customers. In addition, Poll said in an email to Telecompetitor, “We will use 100G waves for all our IP backbone growth going forward so even consumers benefit from our 100G introduction.”
The 100 Gbsp service uses, Coherent Optical Processors. Use of these processors involve a “fundamental change” in how data is sent over optical connections, Ciena Senior Vice President of Global Marketing Rick Dodd told Connected Planet. Instead of simply turning a light on and off as with traditional optical processing, coherent optical processing works “more like the wireless world—you can change the phase and amplitude,” Dodd said.
In comparison with the traditional approach, coherent optics can support higher bandwidth speeds, currently as high as 100 Gb/s, said Dodd. The technology also enables high-bandwidth communications to be supported over some types of fiber that would not otherwise support such high speeds, added Dodd.
Sources:
http://www.telecompetitor.com/centurylink-exec-details-100-gbps-backbone-and-metro-upgrade/
http://connectedplanetonline.com/IP-NGN/news/ciena-expands-use-of-coherent-optical-processing-0302/index.html
Pieter Poll, Senior Vice President of national and international network planning, engineering and construction for CenturyLink expects the carrier’s U.S. 100 Gbps wavelength service deployment, to be popular with large enterprise, government and wholesale customers. In addition, Poll said in an email to Telecompetitor, “We will use 100G waves for all our IP backbone growth going forward so even consumers benefit from our 100G introduction.”
The 100 Gbsp service uses, Coherent Optical Processors. Use of these processors involve a “fundamental change” in how data is sent over optical connections, Ciena Senior Vice President of Global Marketing Rick Dodd told Connected Planet. Instead of simply turning a light on and off as with traditional optical processing, coherent optical processing works “more like the wireless world—you can change the phase and amplitude,” Dodd said.
In comparison with the traditional approach, coherent optics can support higher bandwidth speeds, currently as high as 100 Gb/s, said Dodd. The technology also enables high-bandwidth communications to be supported over some types of fiber that would not otherwise support such high speeds, added Dodd.
Sources:
http://www.telecompetitor.com/centurylink-exec-details-100-gbps-backbone-and-metro-upgrade/
http://connectedplanetonline.com/IP-NGN/news/ciena-expands-use-of-coherent-optical-processing-0302/index.html
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