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...
by Rick Pimpinella and Gaston Tudury To support the changing and fast-growing bandwidth demands of business-critical data centers and Internet service providers, the IEEE is developing a standard...
by Stephen Hardy Among the servers and software on display at last month's Supercomputing '08 Conference in Austin, TX, several optical component vendors added to the expanding portfolio of active...
by Leo Goyette To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Reports of SONET's death have been greatly exaggerated." While Ethernet networks are undeniably gaining ground and likely represent the...
by Dave Parks There is a growing trend toward the use of cloud computing environments for application and data access and storage. From consumers moving from a desktop office suite to Google Apps,...
