An Apple optical data transfer patent granted yesterday could facilitate super-fast communications between devices. The patent says that the technology could offer transfer speeds of “terabits per ...

Optical technology is widely used today for long-haul data transmission, but IBM and Agilent have won a $30 million contract from the Defense Department to shrink the technology so it can be used to ...

An explosion of data, driven by more sensors everywhere and the inclusion of AI/ML in just about everything, is ratcheting up the pressure on data centers to leverage optical interconnects to speed up ...

Although high-speed wireless technologies like Wifi 6E and 5G dominate news headlines, analog, and optical cables are still the backbone of the internet, and for good reason. Researchers in Japan just ...

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

Data centers are a labyrinth of individual parts, working together to create an infrastructure that links to other infrastructures, to make up what we know today as the Internet. The problem with this ...

Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, is unveiling the Spectra OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity.

Scientists have developed a fast and extremely efficient method for transferring huge amounts of data. The technique uses dozens of frequencies of light to transfer several streams of information over ...

The companies nab a three-year deal with the Defense Department to shrink optical technology so it can be used to connect components within a computer. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...