There has been a lot of press lately about how optical communications are going to revolutionize computing and about the companies that are putting serious R&D money into their future product explorations. Optics are widely viewed as the panacea for current and future computing bottlenecks, whether it’s at the chip, system, or data center level since nothing is faster than light. Most of the press attention we’re seeing today is for products that are many years from production and most of these efforts use the old point-to-point approach, which is needlessly complex and requires a huge amount of manufacturing precision. Point-to-point isn’t an “optical superhighway,” it’s a re-pavement of old city streets to handle faster cars.
Lightfleet’s broadcast optical patents are a dramatic improvement over point-to-point. Lightfleet’s broadcast optical technologies are simpler to implement and can scale from a complex system level all the way down to the single integrated circuit component level. Broadcast optical is a much better method of communication since parallel computing communication latencies aren’t cumulative as they are in optical point-to-point. The spread nature of broadcast light-based communication also doesn’t require the ultra-precise manufacturing tolerances of point-to-point.
Lightfleet uses broadcast optics instead of point-to-point for computer interconnects. Lightfleet is the computing industry’s only broadcast optical technology vendor and our core technology is equivalent to a infinite lane, “optical superhighway” that is poised to supercharge the computing industry.