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CERN Grid Computing Center

Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest Computing Grid is Ready for LHC Restart

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider ...





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Ad watchdog: Cablevision Internet not 'fastest'

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Cablevision Systems Corp. should stop saying its Internet service is "the fastest around," the advertising industry's self-regulatory body said Thursday, in response to complaints from competitor Verizon Communications ...


Spreading high-speed Internet to rural areas

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To cut the cost of bringing high-speed Internet to rural areas, Dr. Ka Lun Lee and colleagues at the University of Melbourne and NEC Australia in the state of Victoria are experimenting with a way to boost the reach of existing ...


Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation ...


Supercontinuum generation and soliton dynamics milestone achieved

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

A research team led by Fetah Benabid, University of Bath, has observed for the first time the simultaneous emission of two resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons (waves that maintain their shape while traveling at ...


Making monster waves

Making monster waves

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rogue waves -- giant waves that spring up suddenly and tower over the seas around them—have inspired physicists to look for an analogue in light. These high-intensity pulses can cross large distances without ...


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


Briefs: XO expanding U.S. fiber-optic network

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created Mar 20, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

XO Communications said Monday it was deploying new equipment along its U.S. long-haul fiber-optic network that will double the network's capacity.


Want FiOS from Your Cable Company? Motorola Can Help

Technology / Telecom

created May 08, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Motorola on Monday unveiled a cable passive optical network (PON) solution intended to provide an upgrade path for cable-based broadband companies to shift to fiber.


Sending secret messages over public internet lines can take place with new technique

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 10, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (40) | comments 0

A new technique sends secret messages under other people's noses so cleverly that it would impress James Bond--yet the procedure is so firmly rooted in the real world that it can be instantly used with existing equipment ...


'Tunable' network features coordinated frequency combs

Physics / General Physics

created May 11, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A super stable fiber-optic network that can be tuned across a range of visible and near-infrared frequencies while synchronizing the oscillations of light waves from different sources has been demonstrated at the National ...



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