The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to develop a fiber-optic-equivalent communications backbone on a radio frequency carrier that can be deployed worldwide to give U.S. military forces ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After two years and nearly $6 million, Centennial has a backbone. A 50-mile-long fiber-optic backbone that could eventually provide the more than 100,000 ...

Ribbon Communications Inc. RBBN has teamed up with Moratelindo to augment the latter’s two primary network sections with higher transmission capacity. Ribbon will upgrade the Indonesia-based telco’s ...

An all-optical fiber-optic switching device that maintains the signal as light from input to output. Traditional switches that connect optical fiber lines are electro-optic. They convert photons from ...

NTT has successfully tested technology for optical Internet backbone connections that can transmit 400Gbps on a single wavelength. Working with Fujitsu and NEC, the Japanese telecommunications giant ...

PBBM leads the grand launch of the National Fiber Backbone Phases 2 and 3 in Palo, Leyte, on July 7, 2025. (Photo: PIA Eastern Visayas) PALO, Leyte (PIA)—The launching of the National Fiber Backbone ...

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. today announced that it has increased the port count on the blades used in its Fibre Channel backbone switch by 33%. The storage networking vendor said it has ...

Zambia’s first optic-fiber communication backbone is now being leased to Internet service providers, telephone operators and corporate entities to provide high-speed communication channels across the ...

Fiber optic cables are commonly used for core network lines and connections that must span long distances, such as those used by Internet service providers. This is due to the fact that fiber optic ...

QuickSwitch 6278 dual-channel ESCON fiber-optic network switch has two single-throw switches for on/off operation. The unit uses MEMS-based mirror switch technology and supports gigabit data rates.