Going End to End to Deliver High-Speed Data

About this technology

Overview

While searching for opportunities to run proof-of-concept tests on a new router/switch optical memory storage system, Access Optical encountered a team of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center. These researchers saw that the high-speed, multi-gigabit data transfer capability of Access Optical's storage system had potential to enhance a laser-holographic technique they use; this technique involves neural networks to analyze patterns in holographic images. Such data-intensive computation can be a slow process, but the company's technology showed promise in speeding up the analysis and improving output.An award from the NASA Illinois Commercialization Center-Glenn's link to Illinois businesses-helped initiate the partnership between Access Optical and Glenn, so that the new technology could be proof-tested with help from the NDE team. The test-proven technology resolves data rate mismatches between high-speed optical carrier-grade networks and the digital computer bus interfaces with high-speed, high-density shared memory and simple bus protocols. According to the company, these resolutions can be achieved at a cost that is 60-percent lower than competitor solutions.