A ‘magic carpet’ which can immediately detect when someone has fallen and can help to predict mobility problems has been demonstrated by University of Manchester scientists. Plastic optical... Read more
The breakthrough could revolutionize data centers and the Internet. Scientists at International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) have developed an optical chip that can transmit as much a... Read more
Can be achieved at relatively little extra cost using existing fibre infrastructure Blisteringly fast Internet speeds, more robust connections and a big increase in network capacity at littl... Read more
“If the signal never leaves the fiber, then it is a faster, cheaper, and more efficient technology,” When data is transmitted as pulses of light along a fiber optic cable,... Read more
The arrival of photonic computers could help speed traffic across fiber-optic networks MIT researchers have published research regarding a breakthrough that could speed the way to zippy new... Read more
Physicists with the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at The City College of New York have presented a new way to map spiraling light that could help harness untapped dat... Read more
Calling an internet connection “fast” is a relative statement. In its early days, 56k through your phone line was considered average, even quick. These days, the average internet... Read more
Most of today’s telecommunication data is encoded at a speed of 10 Gbit/s, but researchers are constantly looking for new ways to push this limit even further. A group of researchers a... Read more
Image via Wikipedia OUR taste for the Internet is insatiable — traffic is growing so fast that its transmission systems may soon be filled to capacity. But scientists are coping, finding ing... Read more