Marconi was moving heavily into broadband communications equipment and optical switches at the cutting edge of technology.
All-optical switches use micromirrors, which were originally developed to bounce laser beams around the surface of a silicon chip.
Early work is now under way on software for wireless security and for making optical switches smarter and faster.
The content zooms and clatters over an array of archaic and futuristic gear, from aging copper phone lines to light-bending optical switches.
Unlike electronic switches, micro-mirror optical switches do not slow the signal down.
Such crystals might serve as components of optical switches which would, among other things, fulfill the role played by transistors in conventional electronics.
But the explosion of broadband demand that Marconi was banking on has failed to happen, weakening demand for its upmarket optical switches for the foreseeable future.
And they may also allow the development of purely optical switches, which would eliminate the need to convert a light signal into an electronic one before such switching can be accomplished.
Tenor Networks (optical services switches) and Winphoria Networks (wireless infrastructure).
SPPs to throw switches in electronic circuitry, completing the link between optical and electronic data.
The standard's global deployment is pervasive, and the span of stakeholders in its ongoing development is sweeping, including network component and system manufacturers (optical transceivers, cabling, integrated circuit, powering devices, switches and network interface cards, for example) and network, software and bandwidth providers, as well as LAN and Internet users worldwide.
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