Archives in OPTICAL

• Digital Optical Networks Using Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) Address the Challenges of Reconfigurable Optical Networks

  by  Mark Allen, Chris Liou, Serge Melle, and Vijay Vusirikala, Infinera Corp.
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 13 Jun 2008
  Category:  OPTICAL
  Keywords:  optical comminications ,   PICs ,   ROADM ,   OEO  
  

  During the late 1990's and early 2000's, multi-wavelength optical transmission based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) enabled a rapid increase in capacity per fiber and drove down network cost significantly......

• Guest Editorial - Optical Communications: From Decades of Fundamental Developments to Applications Revolutionizing our Lives

  by  Osman S. Gebizlioglu and John Spencer
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  OPTICAL
  Keywords:  optical comminications ,   PONs ,   SANs  
  

  It is our distinct pleasure to introduce the first issue of IEEE Communications Society's Applications & Practice — Optical Communications Series. Optical communications technologies have been revolutionizing every aspect of our daily lives with globally expanding broadband communications capabilities. With the practically infinite bandwidth of optical fiber, we have.....

• PON in Adolescence: From TDMA to WDM-PON

  by  Klaus Grobe and Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA AG Optical Networking
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 13 Jun 2008
  Category:  OPTICAL
  Keywords:  optical comminications ,   PONs ,   TDMA  
  

  Passive optical networks (PONs) are discussed for the various fiber-to-the-X (or FTTX, where X can mean the home, curb, cabinet, or building) applications for more than a decade......

• Storage Area Network Extension over Passive Optical Networks (S-PONs)

  by  Si Yin, Yuanqiu Luo, Lei Zong, Stephen Rago, Jianjun Yu, Nirwan Ansari, and Ting Wang
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 14 Jun 2008
  Category:  OPTICAL
  Keywords:  optical comminications ,   S-PONs  
  

  The rapid growth of data-intensive applications, including multimedia, e-business, e-learning, and Internet protocol television (IPTV), is driving the demand for higher data-storage capacity. Organizations want their huge amounts of data to be stored so it can be easily accessible and manageable. Furthermore, they require the critical data to be securely transported, stor.....