Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

Ciena is embedding post-quantum cryptography into its optical networking portfolio as telecom operators prepare for future quantum risks, even as AI-driven data centre expansion fuels a surge in ...

One-petabit-per-second signals could send 8K resolution video to 10 million people simultaneously, researchers say. Japan’s national research agency says it has just successfully demoed a networked ...

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Computer scientists have demonstrated the first large-scale optical switching testbed capable of handling 1 Petabit per second optical signals. This demonstration made use of state-of-the-art ...

There’s good news if you’re running out of space on your Google account. Researchers from Scientists from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology just figured out how to fit up to a ...

Novel multicore fiber design enables 10 15 bits per second. Petabit potential: Corning's novel multi-core fiber. Optical communications and IT services provider NEC Corp. of America and fiber ...

With internet traffic set to triple over the next five years or so, according to recent estimates from Nokia and Cisco Systems, Nokia thinks the time is right for a new range of high-end routers that ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) managed to transmit 1.02 petabits of data per second using multi-core fiber (MCF) with a standard cladding ...

A coupler created by Macquarie University in Australia, combined with a fibre fabricated by Hokkaido University and equipment maker Fujikura, and a transmission system developed by the National ...

100Tbyte of information could be stored on each side of a optical disc the same size as a DVD, according to the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), which worked with the Shanghai ...