OC-3 technology is a type of bandwidth transmission. It stands for Optical Carrier 3 because it carries data on the third level of a synchronous optical network, which is a network architecture with a ...

Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...

HORSHAM, Pa. — Motorola Inc.'s broadband communications systems group here today announced an agreement to buy Synchronous Inc. of San Jose to expand its infrastructure products for optical networking ...

Global sales of optical network hardware rose 11% last year to reach US$11.9 billion, according to the latest figures from Infonetics Research. While sales of the different standards for synchronous ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...