Neowin News Feed for: Optic

BT release details of fibre optic rollout

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:49:10 +0000

If you receive your broadband through either of the following exchanges, now's a good time to start getting excited. BT have announced that Muswell Hill, London, and Whitchurch, South Glamorgan will be the first two... Read more...

Fiber Optic Cable Between U.S. and Asia Under Construction

Tue, 01 May 2007 03:59:38 +0000

A new pact formed last week between 17 major telecommunications companies hopes to avoid a repeat of what occurred last December. An undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan disrupted Internet cables, causing communications to... Read more...

DisplayPort to Support Fiber Optic Cables

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:53:41 +0000

The industry's video display standards group, VESA, recently approved DisplayPort 1.1 as an industry standard. Now, a company called Luxtera has received the go-ahead from VESA to develop DisplayPort technologies using CMOS photonics. Luxtera is... Read more...