Technology
Technology Overview
Although Google, Facebook, Cisco, Amazon, and a few other large companies are building and maintaining their own data centers and addressing energy issues internally, thousands of other data centers are in use and/or being built that demand enormous amounts of energy both to operate and to cool the ‘farm’ because of the tremendous heat servers generate.
Research indicates that unceasing Internet growth is straining the resources and architectures of existing commercial data centers as well as data centers for government, education, and medical institutions. AI (Artificial Intelligence), Internet of Things (IoT), social media, videos, smart phones, and other Internet-dependent devices are all increasing demand on our current data center and server farm infrastructure. As traffic increases, so does the need for increased energy and speed.
In addition, some routes may seldom be used while others over-used. Over-provisioning also introduces greater energy consumption. Our High-speed Optical Switches remove the need to over-provision.
Data centers require enormous amounts of energy to operate, largely to keep their technology cool. Research published as recently as an April 2025 report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that
Data Centre electricity consumption is set to more than double to around 945 TWh by 2030. [1]
As demonstrated by the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences
Commercialization the High-speed Optical Switch
Post-Quantum Tek is a recently incorporated company that sees the opportunity this new technology introduces to the data center industry and intends to commercialize its High-speed Optical Switch (HOS).
Post-Quantum Tek will partner with a technology development company to build a prototype. This prototype will readily demonstrate the efficacy of the optical switch to the industry.
Post-prototype and during its development, the commercial high-speed optical switch will be hardened. The optical switch is driven by an FPGA board and currently Helion Optical Networking provides an FPGA-based security solution.
How the High-speed
Optical Switch Works
Our High-speed Optical Switch (HOS) uses the diffraction of the light to redirect the data. Light travels to the server via fiber optic cable and then is redirected to the appropriate receiver using diffraction within the switch. Since this configuration uses only light, and not electronics, it increases throughput speed and reduces power consumption (and heat) considerably.
To be ‘safe,’ data centers often over-provision their servers, that is, they try to connect all switches to each other so data will always have a wired route to its destination. That ‘safety’ means data may have to hop from switch to switch to switch to travel from its source to its destination, which introduces latency and more heat-generating energy. By accomodating a large number of ports, our High-speed Optical Switch minimizes the need to “over-provision.”
Our High-speed Optical Switch is agile and can be reconfigured to send data to any port as needed in microseconds.
And, it’s much cooler.
Summary
The High-speed Optical Switch is a disruptive technology that has tremendous potential for data center clients in reducing energy-related costs and increasing speed.
According to a report published by MarketsandMarkets™ in January 2026, the data center switch market is worth almost USD$17.78 billion in 2025 and is expected to grow to just more than USD $26.78 billion by 2035. With the data center switch market anticipated to have a very robust compound aggregate growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2%, [2] we believe there is a strong market for this technology.
Post-Quantum Tek recognizes there are many other players in the data center switch arena, notably Cisco, Juniper, and Arista. No doubt these companies, and others, are constantly searching for viable solutions to the energy demands and need for speed in data centers. However, we believe our cool High-speed Optical Switch Technology, based on the important theoretical and successfully applied research work performed by the UA’s College of Optical Sciences, sets us apart. We stand ready to commercialize our cool High-speed Optical Switch Technology and bring it to market.
Notes:
[1] International Energy Agency (IEA), Energy and AI: A Special Report