The concept of using passive optical LANs in enterprise campuses has been around for years, but hasn’t taken off because most businesses consider all-fiber networks to be overkill for their needs.

PON (passive-optical-network) technologies provide high-speed, robust, last-mile access over 20-km spans with no field-powered equipment. All PON flavors support a minimum of 32 drops from a single ...

Passive Optical Networks (PONs) have established themselves as a pivotal technology in the evolution of access networks, offering a cost-effective and energy-efficient solution to support ...

The traditional copper telephone wire network still in use today was designed to operate at a bandwidth of up to 4 kHz–the top-end of the voice range. With analog modems, ISDN, and finally xDSL ...

Enterprise networks around the world are becoming progressively choked by the integration of bandwidth-hungry Internet-based applications. The growing usage of streaming video content, integration of ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) provider OptiComm is in the final stages of developing Australia’s first Ten Gigabit per Second Passive Optical Network (XGS-PON) – ...

FCI has expanded the QSFP+ (Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable) portion of its XLerate High Speed I/O product line offerings to now include passive copper and active optical cable offerings that are ...

Education is undergoing a profound digital transformation. From immersive AR/VR learning in science labs to hybrid classrooms, real-time collaboration platforms, and remote learning at scale, how ...

Responding to strong demand for the build-out of fiber-optic networks in the US, Corning has revealed plans to construct a new optical cable manufacturing facility in Arizona. The site in Gilbert, ...