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Optical Cross Connect (OXC) Switches Market: A Well-Defined Technological Growth Map With An Impact-Analysis 2027

Optical Cross Connect (OXC) Switches Market – Introduction

Optical cross connect switches are used by telecom operators to switch optical signals in fiber optic network.

Optical cross connect switch is a new technology used by the telecommunication industry

Increased traffic, rising usage of smart phones, growing need for improved data communications, and better Internet access has led to a huge…

ADVA (FSE: ADV) announced today that the New York State Education and Research Network (NYSERNet) has deployed its core technology to create an agile, open and automated transport network. NYSERNet, a non-profit organization that provides internet access to education, research and healthcare institutions, will use the open infrastructure to transport native and alien wavelengths at up to 200Gbit/s across New York State. Built on the ADVA FSP 3000 platform, including high-density CloudConnect™ shelves, the new infrastructure leverages ADVA’s OpenFabric™ cross-connect technology for flexible service delivery. The network also features ADVA’s route-and-select, flexgrid-capable ROADM architecture, ensuring NYSERNet can rapidly respond to growing demand for new services and bandwidth …

Sean + Seng: Fashion Photography with a Hint of Film Noir

Look up photography duo Sean + Seng and likely the first thing you will find is how they got their start in the fashion industry by doing commissions for Vivienne Westwood before they had even graduated college—a rather impressive feat. As the story goes, the pair were studying at the London College of Fashion and frequenting Westwood's World's End shop in London where they met Senior Brand Manager Murray Blewett. Blewett then invited them to the studio and introduced them to Vivienne Westwood herself. The duo worked with her for years, even shooting Westwood's F/W 2006-07 ad campaign—starring models Tasha Tilberg and Oliver Cheshire—as they were just graduating college.

They describe their unique style as simple, portrait-based fashion images and cite a long and varied list of influences including David Lynch, street kids, transvestites, nature, school girls and of course, Vivienne Westwood. They are regular contributors to 032c, Dazed & Confused, Vogue Japan, Arena Homme+, POP, Interview Germany, Interview Russia and Numéro.

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Sølve Sundsbø and the Mutable Modus Operandi

Given the state of his rather eclectic portfolio today, it may be hard to believe, but Sølve Sundsbø attributes his early photography inspirations to Swedish ski photographers of the 80's. “I was skiing a lot and there were some fantastic photographers that produced some really beautiful, poetic images. Photographers like Felix St. Clair-Renard and Mats Gustafson. That was when I was around 14-15. I got into photography through that, and then the path on from there was a bit more complicated. Then there was the classic photographers like [Harry] Callahan, but first it was the Swedish ski photographers that inspired me right from the start.”

His own work in the world of fashion combines the use of 3D scanning, x-rays, hand-painted retouching and surprisingly, some more traditional techniques, like using moving lights to create light trails. He seems to take great pride in his ability to fuse modern methods of photography with conventional ones. “We just did a Prada Speciale shoot for Italian Vogue, mixing old-school photography and 3D scanning, where 90 percent of it is photography. What I like about that is that the photography style is quite old fashioned with a grey background, very simple hair, simple make up and really simple clothes, then you have these things that aren’t real, which make it all extremely modern — but it still almost looks like it’s part of the old photograph. I love things like that.”

You'll find that his photographs are just as varied as the methods he uses to create them; a fact that nearly ended his career before it began. "People would say to me, 'I'm not sure I can hire you, I'm not sure what you're doing. What is your style?' I was mortified and thought I was never going to make a living as a photographer."

Consistency, perhaps, is just not for him. This seems to be working in his favor, as his résumé includes editorial work in Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar, POP, W Magazine, Vogue China and i-D; as well as commercial campaigns for the likes of Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Mugler, Cartier and Gucci. In his own words, Sundsbø says, “If I've got a style, it's that I've got no style."

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