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40G to 100G - What's All the Fuss About Optical Gigabits?

Overview Preventing a worldwide bandwidth crisis hangs by a thread - a fiber-optic thread thinner than a human hair yet filled with untapped potential. And, that potential within each tiny fiber-optic thread is powerful enough to keep vast amounts of information like YouTube videos flowing at the speed of light, when new network technologies meet the challenge of doing what many said couldn't be done. Today's 10 gigabit per second (10G) optical networks form the high-speed, backbone core for communications, spanning nations and linking continents into a seamless global village.

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Publisher: Nortel Networks
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Jul 31, 2009
Format: White Papers
Topics: Fibre, Optical Networking

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