MRV Communications forms Optical Crossing to develop all-optical
switch componentsMatthew Thomas
Optical communications company MRV Communications said it has
formed a startup called Optical Crossing to develop all-optical
switch components, hoping to profit from a general move by
telecommunications companies to install all-optical networks.
Optical Crossing plans to develop what it terms as a novel
extremely low-loss photonic switch that would avoid the optical
power loss caused by most optical switch components. It claims that
its technology limits optical signal degradation.
The company says its optical switches will play an important role
in developing all-optical networks. Such devices would operate at
speeds of 40 giga bits per second and are expected to be introduced
sometime next year.
Agilent recently said it had developed a breakthrough optical
switch that would be introduced by the end of this year.