Seattle, WA, August 31, 2020
From appearances alone, it is clear the Axon is something new. On an optical breadboard, which is densely covered with state-of-the-art fiber cables, chemically-treated beam splitters, and lasers, the Axon is stacked like a child’s building blocks. It features cherry red paint on the edges, and a laser engraved company logo on the broad sides. Inside are little plastic cartridges that can be removed, rotated and swapped for others like collectable toys; but this unassuming exterior hides the fact that the Axon is a powerful and unique optical tool that provides network engineers with a level of control and freedom that has (until now) been out of reach.
“The Axon is a passive product that works in tandem with fiber launchers to overlap and organize multiple beams of light, no matter the speed, protocol, or direction of the data they carry,” said John Paul Hansen, Co-Founder and CEO of Axon Optics LLC. “A fiber launcher is common in university research labs but not data centers, and can stream information at gigabit speeds by collimating and projecting contents of a fiber optic cable as a beam of light that streams through open air, much like a laser. As a result, a network engineer could overlap and simultaneously transmit several already-multiplexed signals at once --and do so with a miniscule fraction of the latency that even the fastest network switches would require today. That is why the Axon is revolutionary. The value comes from the substantial reduction in latency, on top of adding an additional layer of multiplexing and control.”
As any data center expert would confirm, network latency is expensive. Reducing latency by even one millisecond can represent a savings of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars over the course of a year --but the ability to reduce latency has not been practical in the industry because of the natural speed limitations of electronic switches. Until now. The Axon improves the state of the art by using optics instead.
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About Axon Optics LLC: In the garage of a young entrepreneur during the COVID-19 lockdown, John Paul Hansen put his inventive nature to the test in the development of the Axon. When a friend of his from the business department at the University of Idaho was a few weeks away from graduating, John Paul decided to design a machine to convince him to start a company. It was a desktop-sized optical contraption that could organize and combine network signals passively by turning them into beams that streamed through open air like a laser, and physically overlap them. John Paul thought it would be an interesting toy, but did not realize it had a ton of potential in the cloud industry; until he described it to his dad. After a few months of tweaking, John Paul had a device that could work at any wavelength and distance. At that point, Axon Optics LLC could offer the installation of fiber launchers as a service, and improve the speeds of data centers everywhere. The Axon has countless applications. All application testing done by Axon Optics LLC is showing extremely promising results, and Axon Optics LLC looks forward to sharing the “Axon magic” with the world.