Dell is exaggerating claims that this expensive machine is Web-centric. Come on, it s a Window s machine. Coming at you as fast as new Internet appliances is the boom in photonics. Lucent wants to connect servers directly to optical communications networks. Few of today s servers can handle high-speed data flow across optical networks.
Older servers use slower streams of data converted into electrical form.
The phone companies have been using fiber for years, but the network boxes that switch signals are based on silicon chips. Silicon is about electrons . Fiber-optic cable is about photons . All the old legacy equipment will be replaced with new-age optical machines that work with photonics to expand capacity. With Technology You want to continue to buy innovators Lucent and Sun.