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Is there a future for all-photonic networks?

By Ray Le Maistre

Apr 3, 2025

Masahisa Kawashima, IOWN Technology Director and Chair of the Technology Working Group at IOWN Global Forum, NTT Corp.

Could all-photonic network architectures be used to reduce data transport latency and power consumption in wide area networks? Masahisa Kawashima, innovative optical and wireless network (IOWN) technology director at the IOWN development office of NTT Corp’s R&D planning department, and chair of the Technology Working Group at IOWN Global Forum, believes so. Talking to TelecomTV at the recent Open Networking and Edge Summit in London, he outlines the case for IOWN technology and points to some early use cases, including the provision of GPU-as-a-service.

Recorded March 2025

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