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 ...

An optical start-up is about to emerge from stealth mode with a product said to integrate optical switching and transmission at one-fifth the cost and real estate of metropolitan-area 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 ...