Once upon a time, provisioning optical circuits was a costly and complex proposition, requiring physicist-level expertise and manual configuration at each site through which a circuit passed. The ...

Ending years of speculation, Amazon has acknowledged that its Project Kuiper satellites will use laser-based links to communicate with each other, and says the system has already been successfully ...

PORTLAND, Ore.—There was a time when a dredge snagging an undersea optical cable or an earthquake popping a fiber's connector would bring down the whole network. But no more. Carriers are increasingly ...

Freespace optics startup Taara is deploying a wireless network in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As part of a new partnership between the City of Rio de Janeiro and X Development, Google's research and ...

Space lasers, once a mere futuristic joke, have become a real tool in building technology up there and making improvements for all of us down here. There's been NASA's use of space lasers to study ...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced a higher speed option for AT&T Optical Mesh Service. This option gives enterprise and wholesale customers a new 1GB bandwidth-on-demand ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BridgeComm, Inc., a leader in optical wireless communications (OWC) solutions and services, today announced the next stage in its relationship with Boeing HorizonX. The two ...

An all-optical switching platform brings added flexibility to ease constraints on connectivity. A new type of optical networking software will enable bandwidths of light to be redistributed in ...

AT&T announced last week its Optical Mesh Service, which offers customers the ability to set up a fully meshed optical network with fewer physical ports, bandwidth on demand and lower costs. The ...

Start-up Boca Photonics last week emerged from stealth mode, declaring it’s developing software that sets up and maintains links in optical mesh networks. In doing so, Boca has become one of the first ...

As research into photonic computing progresses, scientists seek to optimize the performance of optical computing devices by making purpose-specific changes to their design. A team led by Bo Wu and ...