Lightfleet has invented and developed a new way of letting computers talk to each other using broadcast light to eliminate the wires. This invention, called Corowave^TM technology, makes systems smaller, use less power, do more work, and communicate with less congestion.

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• About Corowave technology

You haven’t seen anything yet. The biggest technology revolution in the way we work, learn, play, and interact with the world has just begun. The growing tidal wave of demand for digital data is unprecedented and will continue to grow geometrically in size for many years to come. Direct access to the data is causing massive digital content disintermediation as control is rapidly shifting from the producer to the data consumer.

End user thirst for digital data is growing geometrically

IDC reports that 161 exabytes (1,610,000,000,000 megabytes) of digital data was produced in 2006. Google processes over 20 petabytes (20,000,000 megabytes) of data per day and business emails alone amounted to 5 exabytes last year. 161 exabytes produced in 2006 is equivalent to 3 million times the information in all the books ever written. Within the next two years, IDC predicts that our annual thirst for digital data will grow to 988 exabytes and futurist George Gilder states “that unique, technical information is exponentially doubling every 2 weeks and will increase to every 72 hours”. The exaflood is here. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s data centers are challenged like never before to handle the growing demand for electricity. The problem is being compounded by incredible advances that allow more computing to be shoe-horned into a given space. These highly dense computer installations produce a lot of heat that also must be removed, and this can quickly more than double the total electrical power consumed. The cost of electricity can exceed the purchase price of the compute hardware it supplies.

CIO magazine recently predicted that in as little as three years electricity costs could be more than 22X the cost of the hardware.

Direct cabling or using a switch both present challenges

When you fill a data center with computers, they all need to talk with each other. The electrical power consumed by the technology used to connect these computers is quite high and the accompanying cooling requirements are also very high. Some switch installations are using up to 24,000 watts per hour for a 32-computer switch. This often can be 50% of the electricity being consumed by the computers the switches are supporting. Focusing on lowering the amount of electricity being sapped by switches can have a significant payoff. Read the rest of this entry »

To learn more about Corowave, view The Power of Being Connected, a brief PDF presentation about our simultaneous, all-to-all, continuous broadcast optical interconnect.