Fiber optic cable upgrades make some TVs obsolete. Here’s a guide.

Astound, Service Electric Cable TV, Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon Fios are expanding their fiber optic networks. What that ...

Laser-engineered nanowire networks could unlock new material manufacturing

A breakthrough development in nanofabrication could help support the development of new wireless, flexible, high-performance ...
T&D

PG&E Launches Trial to Use Existing Fiber Optic Network for Transmission Line Monitoring

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing a new approach to transmission line monitoring that uses the utility’s existing fiber optic network to gather real-time data across challenging ...
Alaska Public Media

Planned fiber-optic cable will add backup for Alaska’s phone and high-speed internet network

One of Alaska’s smallest telecommunications companies is about to provide a critical backup for the entire state. On Wednesday, Cordova Telecom Cooperative and GCI announced a partnership to lay an ...
NextBigFuture

Highly Customized Optical Networking Critical for Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)

Google’s system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses. They avoid repeated ...
Morningstar

IonQ to Acquire U.S. Optical Communications Leader Skyloom Global to Accelerate Worldwide Quantum Networking and Sensing Infrastructure

Acquisition accelerates IonQ’s full-stack quantum-secure communications and distributed quantum entanglement capabilities IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum company, today announced it has ...
Hosted on MSN

Network in Network (NiN) Explained – Deep Neural Network Tutorial with PyTorch

Learn how Network in Network (NiN) architectures work and how to implement them using PyTorch. This tutorial covers the concept, benefits, and step-by-step coding examples to help you build better ...
Computer Weekly

Nokia lands railway comms, optical networking wins across Asia

In regional Asian coups for the comms tech provider, Nokia has announced a partnership with ST Engineering and First One Systems to deploy Bangkok Expressway and Metro (BEM) railway communications ...
Optics

Certified Optical Network Associate (CONA) Training Workshop

Launch your career in optical communications with specialized optical networking courses from Optical Technology Training (OTT), delivered by FiberGuide. As optical networks grow increasingly ...
Phys.org

Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without requiring a new chip for new colors. This form of nonlinear photonics could ...
Digi Times

NTT to launch next-gen IOWN optical network infrastructure in 2026

The launch for the next-generation optical communication infrastructure, IOWN (Innovative Optical and Wireless Network), led by Japanese telecom group NTT, is scheduled for 2026. The production system ...
Network World

Cisco: AI demands more reliable optical networking components

AI clusters require top-notch connectivity components given that a single slow GPU link or failed connection can significantly impede performance. As AI networking environments become more dependent ...