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ScienceDaily · 01/07/2025 11:43 EDT

Revolutionizing data centers: Breakthrough in photonic switching

Engineers created a smaller, faster and more efficient photonic switch, which leverages principles from quantum mechanics and could accelerate everything from streaming to training AI by supercharging data centers.

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