That would allow electronic data to be converted easily into optical data within the confines of a chip, so helping Moore's whiggish interpretation of the future of computing to continue to come true.
Targeting consumer applications, and extra skinny tablets and laptops in particular, this cabled variety of PCI Express will start off based on the 3.0 spec in 2013, but will then move on from there to PCI Express 4.0 and, potentially, optical data conveyance.
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Smith is the president and chief executive of Sycamore Networks, a maker of hardware for optical-data networks.
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Its new optical technology beams data straight through the air, from one window to another.
SPPs to throw switches in electronic circuitry, completing the link between optical and electronic data.
From GEO, LCRD will enable two years of continuous high data rate optical communications tests.
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"They typically had a steel casing, copper for conducting power down them and optical fibres for collecting data, " he said.
TeraGrid's partner sites are connected by a dedicated optical network that zaps data around at ten to 30 gigabits per second.
It leads in supplying data storage devices that connect to host computers via optical fibre networks to transmit masses of data over long distances.
It leads in supplying data storage devices that connect to host computers via optical fibre networks to transmit masses of data over long distances without clogging up other operations.
While Wall Street body-slammed the company for one lackluster quarter, in that same period sales of Lucent's most advanced optical gear doubled, and its data network business grew 60%.
Recently a company from Utah called Millenniata has introduced an optical disc technology utilizing a disc in which the data is etched (or engraved) into a ceramic substrate rather than stamped on plastic like conventional optical discs.
By 1980 carriers used fiber to carry data and voice calls as optical signals in the form of photons.
This wasteful duplication prevents them from investing as much as they otherwise might in modern optical fiber, wireless, and cloud data centers.
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The m100 took profits in shares of Optelecom (nasdaq: OPTC - news - people ), a Maryland company that sells systems to business and government for sending and receiving video, audio and data over copper wires and optical networks.
Today, optical fibers can transport 10 billion bits of data per second on a single wavelength.
An enormous 1TB(1) hard drive provides generous space to store content and an optical drive is included for backing up valuable data.
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This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and more Ethernet optical fiber links connecting all these wireless and data center nodes.
This switch allows category 6 Ethernet cabling to be used for 10 GE transport up to 100 m, less than the 300 m that optical fiber Ethernet connections but enough for many data centers.
As we learned when the console was initially announced, the Wii U's "proprietary high-density optical discs" hold up to 25GB of data -- equivalent with that of Sony's single-layer Blu-ray format on the PlayStation 3, and much larger than the Xbox 360's dual-layer DVD format.
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It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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Data was stored on rewritable magneto-optical disks 2.5in (64mm) in diameter housed for protection in a square plastic shell.
The live system of the Modbook Pro operates without any moving parts (aside from its optical drive), markedly decreasing the chances for data corruption or loss.
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The live system of an SSD-powered Modbook Pro operates without any moving parts (aside from its base system's optical drive), dramatically decreasing the chances for data corruption or loss.
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The convenience of a SuperMulti optical drive is provided for backing up favorite photos and data.
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Sending large amounts of information down an optical fibre is done by encoding many separate streams of data as pulses of light of different colours, so that they can travel along the fibre without interfering with each other.
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Key to the device is what's missing: Instead of the optical drive built into most other portable devices, the MacBook Air can wirelessly borrow another device's optical drive, so that it can access software or data stored on a disk.
Some 3, 500 U.S. firms are now beavering away at optical technologies to channel the ever-rising tide of digital data faster, cheaper and with greater fidelity.
Because the data are written and read in megabit chunks, holo-drives can transfer data at 20 megabytes per second, far faster than optical drives.
Blu-ray DiscTM is the next-generation optical disc format for high definition audio-video and high-capacity data software applications.
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