A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

Cisco Systems CSCO recently announced the launch of new products and solutions in its Routed Optical Networking solution business to aid customers in saving up to 45% in power and 70% in real estate ...

ATLANTA — The worlds of IP routing and optical switching are fast converging, if last week’s NetWorld+Interop 2000 is any indication. Optical networks were on the lips and minds of many attendees, ...

Things are heating up in the core packet/optical space, the area targeted by Cisco with its recent acquisition of CoreOptics, a maker of optical modules and subsystems. Cisco bought the company to ...

EATONTOWN, N.J. — Upstart Village Networks is about to launch a combination IP-optical router that sorts IP traffic at optical speeds and sends it across metropolitan and regional fiber networks for ...

With all the talk about AI transforming the data center, a perhaps overlooked element is the essential nature of optical fiber in next-generation networks. A failure in just one network link can ...

Analysis of architectures and protocols for ultra-high speed networks, grid and cloud networks, and green networking. The design, analysis, and modeling of architectures, protocols, and algorithms for ...

Microsoft has revealed it has collaborated with Ciena to define a blueprint for what it calls a zero-trust tiered optical network architecture. In a white paper explaining the nature of the ...