News tagged with passive optical networks
Spreading high-speed Internet to rural areas
Mar 16, 2009 |
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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 ...
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The key to a more efficient nanolaser?
Jan 31, 2008 |
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“There are some discussions about the recent applications on photonic nanolasers and photonic integrated circuits based on photonic crystals,” Toshihiko Baba tells PhysOrg.com in an email. Baba, a scientist at the Yokoha ...
Want FiOS from Your Cable Company? Motorola Can Help
May 08, 2007 |
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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.
Ubiquitous broadband, more than optical illusion
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Better access to ultra-fast broadband networks in Europe is driving development of a host of new web services, promising everything from video conferencing to internet protocol (IP) television. But “ultra-broadband” like ...
Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking ...
Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic
May 28, 2009 |
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A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the controlled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.
ORMatE returns to NRL after nearly 2 years in Earth orbit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Completing an 18-month mission orbiting the Earth more than 6,000 times on-orbit the International Space Station (ISS), the Optical Reflector Material Experiment (ORMatE-1) returns to Washington, D.C., to ...
Optical firewall aims to clear internet security bottlenecks
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are developing the world’s first optical firewall capable of analysing data on fibre optic networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. Their work promises to save the ...
Briefs: Ericsson integrates Marconi's broadband
Mar 27, 2006 |
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Ericsson launched an integrated broadband network that will combine its access system with that of Marconi's, which it bought out earlier this year.
Clever plants chat over their own network
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Sep 25, 2007 |
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Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms ...
Ad watchdog: Cablevision Internet not 'fastest'
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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