Technologies and ProductsOptical switch vendor Finchetto has been awarded funding to develop the ‘world’s first’ fully optical passive network switch for greater energy efficiency in AI and telecommunications. The company claims its optical switch achieves up to a 20x reduction in power requirements, compared to the current industry-leading electronic switches. Finchetto has been awarded a ‘Contract for […]
News and BusinessProfessor Nick McKeown, widely known for co-inventing software-defined networking (SDN), has been recognised for his pioneering work in high-performance switches, routers and network architecture at this year’s Marconi Awards Gala held at UCLA in Los Angeles. He received the 2025 Marconi Prize, regarded as the “Nobel Prize for Communications” by the Marconi Society, honoring significant […]
Technologies and ProductsFS, a provider of ICT products and solutions, has announced the launch of its DCS-W Series All-Optical Circuit Switch (OCS), which is designed to meet the surging demands of AI, high performance computing (HPC), and machine learning clusters. The DCS-W Series combines a fully non-blocking optical matrix switch architecture with an intuitive Web GUI management […]
News and BusinessA new partnership between Spirent Communications and Telescent is set to provide a boost for companies seeking to optimise AI/ML resource connectivity and automate test infrastructure. AI and machine learning workloads demand optimal connectivity through optical interconnections to maximise resource utilisation and investment returns. The collaboration addresses these challenges by bringing together Telescent’s innovative optical […]
Technologies and ProductsBroadcom Inc. says it is now shipping the Tomahawk® 6 switch series, delivering what the company says is the world’s first 102.4 Tbps of switching capacity in a single chip – double the bandwidth of any Ethernet switch currently available on the market. With scale, energy efficiency, and AI-optimized features, Tomahawk 6 is built to […]
Technologies and ProductsA University of Michigan (U-M)-led research team has demonstrated an ultrafast all-optical switch by pulsing circularly polarised light, which twists like a helix, through an optical cavity lined with an ultrathin semiconductor. The study was recently published in Nature Communications. The device could function as a standard optical switch, where turning a control laser on […]
Technologies and ProductsComing on the back of news that Broadcom Inc. has extended AI optical component portfolio, the company has announced it has delivered Bailly (pictured), the industry’s first 51.2 terabits per sec (Tbps) co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch, to its customers. The product integrates eight silicon photonics based 6.4-Tbps optical engines with Broadcom’s best-in-class StrataXGS® Tomahawk®5 […]