NII, NTT, Inc. and NTT EAST, Inc. have successfully demonstrated the world's first automated optical transport layer control, ...

Finchetto CEO exclusively talks to us about using light to cut network latency, reduce power use, and remove network ...

The Global Optical Fiber Switch Market is primed for growth due to rising demands for energy-efficient data management, boosted by AI and 5G advancements. Key challenges include high capital costs, ...

- A major step toward the realization of a backbone communication system that supports various information communication services after Beyond 5G A group of researchers from the Network Research ...

Fiber optic technology is the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, and recent innovations are propelling its capabilities to new heights. In the past few years, breakthroughs in materials, ...

Novel optical switches and modulators based on electro-optical waveguides induced in special liquid crystal arrangements have been developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, ...

Although fiber optic cables today are fast, converting their photons to electric signals at the internet server level still uses a lot of electricity. Japanese telecom firm NTT and Tokyo-based ...

Driven by a need to reduce power and increase bandwidth density in data center network switches and other devices, the data networking industry is moving toward adoption of co-packaged optics (CPO).

Applications such as self-driving vehicles, 6G mobile communications and quantum communications are pushing fiber optic ...

Researchers have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive ultra-short laser pulses it exhibits 'toggle switching' that could increase the ...