A new showcase for optical networking technology is beginning to light up, offering a test bed for research that could help spark a fire under the moribund industry. The National LambdaRail (NLR) ...

AI clusters require top-notch connectivity components given that a single slow GPU link or failed connection can significantly impede performance. As AI networking environments become more dependent ...

Researchers demonstrate a way to improve quantum key distribution over fiber networks. Beneath many cities are complex networks of optical fibres that carry data, encoded in pulses of light, to ...

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

Microsoft has revealed it has collaborated with Ciena to define a blueprint for what it calls a zero-trust tiered optical network architecture. In a white paper explaining the nature of the ...