Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) is a North American standardized digital communication protocol for synchronous data transmission over optical fibers. In other words, SONET transmits and ...

Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) is a group of fiber optic transmission rates that transport digital signals with different capacities. SDH technology enables low-bit rate data streams to combine ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Navy researchers announced plans this week to ask industry for help in developing high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance networking that involves Ethernet, SONET, ...

MUNICH -- ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today launched a new set of optical transceiver and amplifier modules for its Fiber Service ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...