Fiber Optic Communication
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Internet to boost China's mobile revenue
News Increased high-speed Internet access is expected to allow the country to capitalize on growing mobile revenue this year.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation)
IBM turns up the transistor heat
News In a move that could pave the way for faster and less power-hungry networking chips, the company plans to announce Monday that it has developed the world's fastest silicon transistor.
Xerox: Let everyone have fiber
News The company says its new chip will greatly diminish the cost of connecting homes and offices to fiber cables in the ground.
Intel makes quantum leap in fiber optic detectors
News The company has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that can cut the cost of fiber-optic communications to a fraction of their current value.
Tags: Processors, Video, Intel Corp., Fiber-optics, Fiber, Device, Photonics, Fiber-optic Communication, DARPA, Mario Paniccia
Intel's Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
News Intel won't promise when its optical communication technology will arrive. But a fiber-optic company allied with the chipmaker says cables will be done early in 2010.
Tags: Components, Optical networking, R&D, Intel Corp., Computer, optical networking, Fiber-optics, network, Light Peak, Foci
IBM's opens processor communications with optical switch
News It's an optical switch for chips. It's fast. It's low power. And it's in the future.
Tags: Personal Computers, Processors
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News The New Year's honors list included a damehood for Professor Wendy Hall, a seminal figure in the research and development of web libraries, hypermedia, multimedia and the semantic Web.
Tags: Web sites, Government, Benefits, Semantic Web, Hypermedia, Information And Communication Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer, Wendy Hall
Asia's cables on the blink
Blogs On Dec. 26, 2006, the Hengchun earthquake near Taiwan was actually two shocks within 5 minutes of each other at 8:30 p.m...
Short Take: Asia Global Crossing debuts high-speed Net service in Japan
News Regional fiber optic communications network builder and operator Asia Global Crossing Tuesday launched a high-speed Internet service for ISPs in Japan--signing up two big names at launch.
Asia Global Crossing Q1 loss widens on higher costs
News Asia Global Crossing Ltd, which is building fiber-optic communications network in Asia, had a wider first-quarter loss from higher costs for depreciation, and operating and maintaining its cables.
Fujitsu may buy small US makers of optical network parts 
News Fujitsu Ltd, Japan's biggest computer maker, said it is looking to buy US companies to compete with Nortel Networks Corp to sell high-speed optical equipment to telephone companies.
Lucent optical gear passes Deutsche Telekom test
News Lucent has announced that its latest fiber-optic communications equipment has successfully passed tests by Deutsche Telekom, a sign that equipment companies are making progress toward higher speeds.
IBM turns up the transistor heat
News In a move that could pave the way for faster and less power-hungry networking chips, IBM plans to announce Monday that it has developed the world's fastest silicon transistor.
IBM develops fastest silcon transistor
News The silicon-germanium chip-manufacturing technology is capable of producing transistors operating at 210GHz using just 1 milliamp of electrical current.
Intel aims lasers at optical costs
News Tunable lasers for fiber-optic communications may help reduce the amount of gear that telecommunications companies and their equipment makers have to worry about.
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