Its original products were portable testing products for optical networks.

Mayan makes complex equipment that helps add flexibility to the optical networks within cities.

Thus, the cost of transmitting a bit over an optical network decreases by half every nine months.

His abiding subjects are computers, satellite companies, the Internet and optical networks.

Eventually, they may be able to go to completely optical networks, depending instead on devices no bigger than breadboxes.

A passive optical network is a form of fiber-optic access network.

But the Europeans are racing ahead in developing faster optical networks.

They have less range than an active optical network, meaning subscribers must be geographically closer to the central source of the data.

Failure recovery is an essential part of any optical based network.

The equipment will help Verizon build a synchronous optical network that can handle voice calls and data.