If you take advantage of AllWave, then you can literally do that transmission on one fibre. Its cable TV applications include system interconnects. As DWDM becomes more prevalent in cable TV architectures, opportunities for using MetroCor may likewise increase. But no fibre works without transmission equipment. Boyer says fibres offering more usable spectrum sound good on paper.
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Few can complain about the explosion in bandwidth demand, which caught the fibre manufacturers off guard. But not everyone is pleased with the heightened role of premium fibres in these vendors product mixes. In defense, Corning s Eusden says that more than half of Corning s capacity is devoted to standard single-mode product. Meanwhile, standard single-mode is beginning to look like a commodity. There s an international spot market and, according to Belden s Valentine, quarterly pricing.