The November/December 2011 Lightwave magazine cover story “A look ahead at 2012,” is the annual technology forecast, written by Editorial Director and Associate Publisher Stephen Hardy....
Cloud services and storage have exploded in popularity, enabled in part by virtualization technology at the server, the desktop, and in the storage-area network (SAN). For example, the multi-core...
According to the September/October 2010 Lightwave magazine article “Fiber forward,” sources at fiber developers indicate that current new fiber development focuses on both near-term and...
According to the September/October 2010 Lightwave magazine article “Whither bend-insensitive multimode?” that opens that issue’s “Analysis” section, manufacturers of...
According to the July/August 2010 Lightwave magazine article “Fiber and the smart grid,” several fiber-optic systems vendors have targeted smart grid applications as an emerging...
MAY 18, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- It seems everyone with a network -- or at least everyone with a network in the New York/New Jersey area -- has hopped on the low latency bandwagon. The competition...
MAY 6, 2010 – LIGHTWAVE, the leading media provider of technical insights for optical communications professionals, has announced that its new Optical Networks for Enterprises (ONE)...
By Dimple I. Amin and Andrew F. Bach Overview With a decrease of 1 ms in latency equating to up to $100 million for its trading partners, NYSE Euronext decided to launch the first commercial...
By Todd Bundy Overview IT managers have multiple protocol options for supporting cloud computing. Settling on one may prove difficult in the near term, which means planning accordingly. The...
by David Mazzarese The explosion in demand for bandwidth and, consequently, for high-capacity computing, is driving an urgent need for higher Ethernet network speeds. Several factors contribute to...
