Magazine: March 2009
Fibre Channel expands into LANs
Companies with large data-storage requirements should be adding Fibre Channel over Ethernet to their list of technologies to watch in 2009. Jeff McKeown explains why.
Channel-monitor vendors revisit the fundamentals
Mark Lourie describes how the advent of 40 and 100 Gbit/s transmission is pushing the performance requirements for optical channel monitors to new levels.
Silicon carves out its niche as an optical material
Silicon photonics pioneers are applying high-volume, low-cost production techniques from the electronics industry to the manufacturing of optical components. Roy Rubenstein investigates the likely impact.
Vienna project wires up true quantum network
Quantum cryptography gear for point-to-point links has been commercially available for several years, but building a network is considerably more of a challenge, as Nadya Anscombe discovers.