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 ...
Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...
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) ...
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 ...
A team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Stanford University and Purdue University have developed a fully functional quantum local area network, or QLAN, to enable ...