Sunday, March 16, 2008

One Minute Video: What is a Carrier Ethernet Switch Router?

One Minute Video: What is a Carrier Ethernet Switch Router?Presented by Rafael FrancisECI Tele...

ECI Telecom Announces "1Net" Converged Framework

ECI Telecom announced "1Net", its framework for helping service providers transition to next-generation networks. ECI 1Net encompasses the company's newly announced Carrier Ethernet 9000 Family and its existing packet-optical and access product lines. The company is also offering a suite of planning, integration and management services to support carriers' business and operational challenges. http://www.ecitele....

ECI Telecom Unveils Carrier Ethernet 9000 Product Line

ECI Telecom unveiled its new Carrier Ethernet 9000 Family, encompassing Carrier Ethernet switch routers, aggregation switches and demarcation units for the metro core, metro access and customer premises. The platforms are designed to deliver high-densities of MEF-certified Ethernet & IP services, including E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, IP Multicast for IPTV delivery and IP VPNs.For the metro core, a new SR9700 model will leverage the company's modular...

IBM Develops Nanophotonic Switch for Multi-Core Chips

Researchers at IBM have developed a nanophotonic switch for routing optical data between cores in future computer chips. Like a long-haul fiber-optic network, such an extremely miniature on-chip network will transmit, receive, and route messages between individual cores that are encoded as a pulses of light. IBM estimates that by using light instead of wires, as much as 100 times more information can be sent between cores, while using 10 times less...