It is made up of four pairs of fibre-optic cable and uses synchronous digital hierarchy and wave division multiplexing. However, 80 per cent of the capacity will be reserved for data transmission. A consortium of more than fifty telecoms companies...
AT&T has confirmed it is one of the suitors for IBM's Global Data Networking division, valued at $4bn. The statement came from AT&T's boss Richard Roscitt as the two companies announced a $2bn joint contract to provide networking and telecoms for...
The network will be based on SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) and WDM (Wave Division Multiplexing) technologies. Telecom Italia has signed a £32m deal with Marconi Communications for transmission equipment to improve the Italian trunk backbone...
The ten technology partners will now work to standardise the technology under the name VOFDM (Vector Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). Cisco Systems is to offer its latest wireless access technology royalty-free to ten major IT vendors...
France Telecom has also begun testing Lucent's WaveStar LambdaRouter, an all-optical switch that can put the per second output of emails in the billions range by using tiny mirrors to route optical signals in a network without translating them...
However, Peterson believes it will be some time before old-school TDM - time division multiplexing, or using analogue signals to transmit digital data - disappears completely. Avaya's CEO, Don Peterson, said today that worries over viruses and...