Cover Story Low-Cost Transport Sprouts New Photonic Components
To say that the optical communications landscape has changed somewhat over the last two years might well be classified as an exercise in understatement. But all is far from lost. A trending inversion in market driversfrom component makers to OEMshas created new applications and opportunities for budding photon-manipulation technologies that would otherwise have shriveled up and died in the ongoing razing of the photonics industry.
Features Databases Form Core of Reliable Network Design
By Tomas Ulin
Though often given short shrift, sound real-time databases are the foundation of high-availability networks, but which architecture?