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Innovation for a Sustainable Future
Foundational Technologies

APN

The backbone for the journey from electronics to photonics.

APN (All-Photonics Network) will help respond to the explosive growth of data volume and power consumption demanded by current and future technologies

2016-2030

IT-RELATED POWER DEMAND INCREASE

x 5,000

PRESENT

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Light travels much faster than electricity, but today optical technology (photonics) is used mainly just for long distance transmission

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Information processing in devices and servers as well as other key network elements remain electrical.

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OUR VISION

APN will take photonics inside all information processing devices.

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APN will also enable them to connect end-to-end optically

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It will also expand
optical communications to terrestrial-satellite communications.

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...and undersea communications.

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An All-Photonics Network beyond ground communications will be born.

The change in power efficiency, transmission speed and latency will make a whole new connected world possible.

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Target power consumption efficiency

x 100

Target transmission capacity

x 125

Target en-to-end delay reduction

1/200

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