After taking on the multibillion-dollar data center equipment industry, Facebook has now set its sights on the $500 billion telecom equipment market , too.
On Tuesday it revealed several details of its plans.
This includes a new computer network product invented at Facebook which it will freely share with the world, as well as a plan to design a new open source cellular wireless network.
Specifically, Facebook announced on Tuesday a piece of network equipment known as an optical switch that it named Voyager . (In geek speak, this is the first "white box" transponder and routing device for Open Packet DWDM optical networks.)
Optical networks are very-high-speed networks that transfer data using light pulses, rather than conventional copper wires. A "white box" is a generic piece of computer equipment that costs far less than the big brand names.
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