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Article: Xerox researchers develop breakthrough technology to bring benefits of fiber optics to small businesses, homes.
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- Federal Computer Market Report
- Article date:
- March 31, 2003
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Although the information superhighway is here, the "off-ramps" are more like one-lane dirt roads because of the high cost of routing fiber optic networks that last mile. However, a new technology from Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX) could help change that, by assisting the effort to bring affordable, high-capacity fiber optics directly to businesses and even homes for the first time.
The technology breaks the bandwidth barrier that exists today by integrating an Optical MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) photonic switch with planar light circuits on a single silicon chip small enough to fit on a fingertip--a first ever achievement.
The new switch ...