Technologies

The Universities of Extremadura and Vigo are designing a nanolink that would solve the problems of interconnection and heating in future optical integrated circuits, or nanochips.

An increase in data center activities, the rapid growth of the 40/100 GbE market, mobile backhaul applications, and the development of infrastructure by end users to accommodate gigabit Ethernet are leading the global market for Ethernet test instrumentation.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Mateo Valero, director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), an Advanced Grant in the physical sciences and engineering category for his project 'Riding on Moore's law'.

Intel Corporation has announced a collaboration agreement with Facebook* to define the standards for the next generation of rack technologies that will be used to create the world's largest data centers. As part of their collaboration, both companies unveiled a prototype rack assembled by Quanta Computer*

The amount of Internet backbone bandwidth maintained by major Internet companies has expanded from 75% to 125% per year, driven by the explosion of Internet broadband users, and the increasing use of high-bandwidth applications such as high-definition video.

On October 31st, a new European initiative in the telecommunications sector was launched. VECTOR (Versatile Easy installable Connector implementing new Technologies for accelerated fiber Optic network Roll-outs in Europe) is a collaboration between European universities and the telecommunications sector whose objective is to carry out research activities to develop an easy-to-install fiber optic connector system for field deployment.

This report from Research Markets Ltd addresses specific aspects of fiber optic access network technologies. It also analyzes related markets, the industry, and key applications of these access technologies.

Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a multinational company have taken a key step toward the mass production of integrated photonic chips. The innovation lies in the design of new delay lines (which slow down light) using photonic crystals, according to their study published in Nature Communications.

Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the US Naval Research Laboratory have developed the world's first prototypes of a two-dimensional radial photonic crystal. The breakthrough, detailed in Nature Scientific Reports, opens a new avenue for manipulating light and sound.

Nokia Siemens Networks, and a consortium of R&D partners, have successfully demonstrated a record capacity using light to transmit information over commercially deployed multimode optical fiber. The demonstration* achieved a 6-fold increase in optical data rate to 57.6 Terabits per second (Tbps)

The Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) market is growing rapidly, driven by maturing technologies and business models, and increasing market awareness of the availability of these services and their specific benefits. The anticipation surrounding cloud technologies has also contributed to the growing demand for GbE.

Telefónica International Wholesale Services and Infinera today announced the international upgrade of TIWS' SAm-1 submarine cable network connecting North and South America with the Infinera DTN-X platform.

Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of a cloud-based technology that recognizes where a user has their tablet or smartphone and provides them with the services or information they need based on their location.

Fujitsu has announced its development of the SA46T/SA46T-AS DataCenter Solutions, a technology that allows data centers to seamlessly migrate from IPv4 to IPv6.

Fujitsu has announced the implementation of a detailed, real-time temperature distribution visualization system within the Tohoku Electric Power Group's data center. This innovation was made possible through collaboration with Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. and Tohoku Information Systems Co., Inc. (“TOiNX”).

Improved efficiency, increased productivity, and reduced costs are the main factors driving the European industrial networking/communications market. There is a growing trend in industrial operations to interconnect systems, equipment, machinery, and devices through networking

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro, announces the world's fastest CMOS transmitter IC for DWDM applications, supporting cost-effective, energy-efficient 100 Gbps network deployments in metropolitan, regional, and long-haul areas.

The main manufacturers of technologies related to high-performance computing or supercomputing (such as Allinea, ARM, Bull, Caps Enterprise, Eurotech, IBM, Intel, ParTec, STMicroelectronics and Xyratex) and the main European research centers in supercomputing (BSC, CEA, CINECA, Fraunhofer, Forschungszentrum Juelich and LRZ) have created the European Technology Platform for HPC (or ETP4HPC) and the document with the vision of said platform, which contemplates improving Europe's position in this area.

Huawei has unveiled its new WDM prototype, improving upon current commercial conventional products that utilize a fixed 50GHz spectrum span. Boasting the highest spectrum efficiency among currently available WDM products, Huawei's WDM prototype features a flexible spectrum span with a minimum accuracy of 12.5GHz. This not only increases spectrum utilization and WDM system flexibility but also establishes a solid foundation for multi-carrier technologies and next-generation, flexible-bandwidth optical networks beyond 100G. This high-efficiency spectrum technology will enable operators to build WDM networks that meet future needs.

Daltonium, an American materials research company, has applied for a patent for a new type of optical fiber with a signal rate factor of 98% of "c", the speed of light in a vacuum (compared to 68% of "c", the signal rate in every optical fiber manufactured since 1970).