Optical Networking White Papers
Why Optical Networking Will Cost Less in the Future: Four New Product Strategies
Overview
From its earliest days in the 1980s when fiber optics was first being deployed en masse right up to the present day when DWDM and EDFAs flourish, choosing optical networking over a copper (or wireless) solution has been a trade off between bandwidth and systems cost. If you choose fiber, you get a lot more bandwidth, and the cost per bit may be less than alternative media. But in absolute terms, you also pay more for photonic hardware than you do for copper or wireless hardware.
Because of this disparity, vendors and R&D facilities have long sought ways to reduce the cost of optical networking. This paper discusses some innovative ways that are now being proposed for making optical networking less expensive.
| Publisher | Communications Industry Researchers, Inc. | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 1 |
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