Optical Fiber
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Intel's Light Peak: One PC cable to rule them all
News Chipmaker wants to replace today's hodge-podge of copper cables with single type of optical connection, and hopes standardization will help it catch on.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., UWB, QoS, Cable, monitor, wireless communication, PC, Components, Sony Corp.
Corning cuts 2001 profit forecast
News Fiber-optics giant Corning on Monday issued its third profit warning this year, ratcheting down its estimates for 2001 while maintaining first-quarter projections.
Commentary: Will Lucent make the right choices?
News Lucent Technologies' recent announcements clearly signal that the company is in an extensive rebuilding mode and indicate an apparent realization that its structure was not yet sufficiently tuned to the needs of the marketplace.
UK financial traders move to the sewers
News Optical fiber network provider, Geo, has opened a new high-capacity network for financial trading organizations to carry out automated trades more efficiently.
Tags: Network infrastructure, optical fiber, trader, Silicon.com, financial, network, financial service, network provider, spokesman, data network
Scottish academia target cancer with 'light saber'
News A novel method out of Scotland, capable of firing a laser beam accurate enough to puncture a hole in an individual cell, could be used to treat cancer in the near future.
Tags: R&D, Cell, Star Wars, Fiber, optical fiber, laser, Scotland, News.com, researcher, patient
Alcatel-Lucent grows Australian business
News Telecommunications vendor's Australian revenues in calendar year 2008 grew US$35 million to reach a total of US$700 million.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, LANs and WANs, Sales/revenue, Alcatel, Telecommunications, Sales, FTTH, Telstra Corp., internal network, network
Alcatel bids for Lucent's optical fiber unit
News Alcatel, Europe's fourth-biggest phone equipment maker, has made a bid for the optical fiber unit that Lucent Technologies is putting up for sale, said chief executive Serge Tchuruk.
Lucent mulls sale of fiber-optics unit
News Lucent Technologies, the struggling telecommunications equipment maker, said Wednesday that it is considering a variety of options for one of its business units, including an outright sale.
Ji Tong to invest US$30m in data centers in China
News Ji Tong Corp, a Chinese phone operator providing long-distance calls over the Internet, plans to invest 250 million yuan (US$30 million) to set up data centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong.
SingTel to set up S$9.4m "carrier hotel"
News Singapore Telecom said it will initially invest S$9.4 million from mid-April to set up a facility within its premises to allow new telecom service providers to house their equipment.
APCN 2 awards NEC Japan US$800m contract
News The investors of Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN 2) have today awarded US$800 million (RM3.04 billion) supply contract for the construction of the cable network to NEC Corp. of Japan.
Hutchison, Global Crossing to form Net venture
News Hutchison Whampoa and Global Crossing Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed Internet service provider, said they will form a US$1.2 billion venture to offer Internet-related services in Hong Kong.
IBM breaks optical data transfer record
News Big Blue researchers have achieved a new record in data transfer rates, 300Gbps, using their new "Optochip" fiber optic chip.
Tags: Processors, Optical networking, Supercomputing
Analysts question Lucent cable advance
News The company introduces new undersea cable technology that can significantly increase the capacity of present networks, but some analysts wonder if such an advance is even necessary.
Intel connects chips with optical fiber
News Wires can only go so fast--so the company is working on ways to hook up chips inside computers with optical fiber.
