- ONI Systems launches bit-rate tuneable interface for
carriers.
CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The optical networking equipment provider ONI Systems has unveiled a new interface designed to make it easier for carriers and carriers' customers to manage and provision digital traffic, such as Fibre Channel, Gb Ethernet, HDTV and SONET/SDH. The Bit-Rate Tuneable Wavelength Interface is software ......
- Metro optical networking - will the boom finally begin?
HEADNOTE Optical systems are migrating to the metro level. Look for major market boosts this year. For more than a year, optical networking sy systems aimed at the "metro" space have been in vogue. During 1999, almost every established telecom equipment vendor, not to mention a slew of startups, came ......
- By the numbers
THE BIG PICTURE Sales To Enterprise Remain Steady In 3Q02, equipment sales to enterprises were up I percent quarter-over-quarter (Q/Q) to $4.4 billion. This category includes Ethernet switches, storage area network (SAN) switches and approximately 75 percent of routers. During the same period, equipment sales to service providers declined 11 ......
- Connector system
The small-form-factor-pluggable (SFP) system attaches copper or fiber-optic pluggable transceivers and cable assemblies to host equipment. A common interface supports multiple data-transfer protocols such as Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, and InfiniBand. SFP applications include network switches, routers, servers, and storage devices. Mounted on a host PCB and protected by a ......
- Will MPLS Transform Optical Networking As We Know it?
HEADNOTE Packet-aware optical networks may give carriers another chance to integrate their transport and packet services infrastructures-this time with MPLS and pseudowires For a brief period in the late 1990s, three years at most, optical networking equipment enjoyed unrivaled esteem by telecom operators, Wall Street analysts, Silicon Valley venture capitalists, ......
- Making sense of new network chip technology
New Gigabit Ethernet chipsets offer a range of options for today's network mega-switch architects. Powerful network processors, low-cost transceivers, multi-channel serial backplane interconnects, and high-speed synchronous serial switch fabrics simplify designers' hardware implementation tasks, allowing them to concentrate on their value-adds such as higher layer switching capability, media flexibility, and ......
- Quick Custom Optical Networks
Project description Qlogic (Aliso Viejo, CA, www.qlogic.com ) manufactures host-bus adapter cards that connect servers to storage devices and storage-area networks (SANs). Each time the company makes a design change, its test engineers must check performance, features and error handling. Host adapters connect to storage devices and SANs over Fibre ......