Agilent Technologies Inc - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article

CommunicationsWeek International, March 20, 2000

> Agilent Technologies Inc., Palo Alto, California, has taken the networking world closer to an all-optical environment with the announcement of its "photonic switch" technology. The U.S. vendor, controlled by Hewlett-Packard Co., said this allows the re-routing of an optical signal without the need to convert it into an electronic signal and back again, the current practice that slows down network transmissions.