ATLANTA — The worlds of IP routing and optical switching are fast converging, if last week’s NetWorld+Interop 2000 is any indication. Optical networks were on the lips and minds of many attendees, ...

TE Connectivity’s Nathan Tracy was re-elected as President of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), as the group confirmed the makeup of its 2026 Board of Directors.

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

What do enterprises want from their network services? The same thing any customer wants of any good or service they purchase -- “I want more for less.” New service features? Sure, as long as they ...

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 ...

Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim believes his company’s recent purchase of silicon-photonics vendor Aurrion may lead to a major cost reduction for high-speed networking gear. Rahim says he thinks “we ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – A team of researchers in industry and higher education, led by a group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded major financial support by the Defense ...

NII, NTT, Inc. and NTT EAST, Inc. have successfully demonstrated the world's first automated optical transport layer control, ...

LONDON – Bell Labs will take the lead on two optical and laser communications R&D projects awarded by the Pentagon to Lucent Technologies. One focuses on devising an optical router capable of sending ...

Compare mesh Wi-Fi vs traditional routers in 2026 for coverage, speed, latency, and device handling in large homes and smart ...