Tokyo and Taipei, approximately 3,000 kilometers apart, are connected by IOWN’s ultra-high-speed optical communications, with measurement results showing latency reduced to just 17 milliseconds. The article covers developments at IOWN Global Forum and Anritsu’s involvement in the mobility sector. Anritsu’s CTO discusses the global expansion of Japan’s optical communications technology.
Measurements showed latency of 17 milliseconds when connecting Tokyo and Taipei, approximately 3,000 kilometers apart, via IOWN’s APN (All-Photonics Network), as efforts advance to enable mobility using digital twins. These efforts include data center interconnection and collaboration in the mobility sector, and a new measurement and verification framework using IOWN is introduced.
IOWN Global Forum held its annual interim meeting in Amsterdam in October and announced plans to build an Edge Twin. The forum indicated its intention to promote the use of IOWN in the automotive sector through partnerships with 5GAA and AECC, highlighting efforts to strengthen coordination between communications networks and the physical world.
Anritsu is participating in efforts to promote the use of IOWN Global Forum’s work in the mobility sector. Jonathan Boril, CTO of Anritsu’s Test and Measurement Business Group, discusses the possibility that Japan’s optical communications technology could lead the world again. The article explains that the company’s equipment was also used to measure the 17-millisecond latency.