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 ...

Colt Technology Services is riding a tight relationship with Cisco to manage the European-based network service provider (NSP)’s surging network traffic demands while also managing network efficiency.

Things are heating up in the core packet/optical space, the area targeted by Cisco with its recent acquisition of CoreOptics, a maker of optical modules and subsystems. Cisco bought the company to ...

Ciena Corporation CIEN and Nokia NOK are both established players in the telecommunications equipment industry, with a strong focus on optical networking solutions used by service providers worldwide.

Google’s system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses. They avoid repeated ...