Optical nets brace for even heavier traffic.

Optical nets brace for even heavier traffic.

Thanks to that Internet, backbone traffic has been increasing at a compound annual growth rate of more than 100 percent for several years. The owners of the backbone infrastructure, which is almost entirely fiber-based, are therefore eagerly embracing technologies that add to the capacity of fiber-o...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 38, 1 (2001).
Main Author: Riezenman, M.J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
TDM data stream bit rate increase.
WDM.
Economics.
Fiber optic backbone infrastructure.
Fiberless optics.
Last mile.
Optical networks.
Time division multiplexing.
Unguided laser beams transmission.
Wavelength division multiplexing.