Ciena Corp.'s intro to optics Optical Intelligence. Informative news site on the fiber optics industry. No other market in the past year has exploded with such force as the optical networking market, or has seemingly imploded as well. Regardless of the beatings the market capitalizations of optical networking have taken recently, services require bandwidth. To generate that bandwidth, service providers and even enterprise users have 'seen the light' and increasingly rely on optics to satisfy their bandwidth requirements.
Optical access covers fiber over the last mile.
Metro-area networking encompasses the communication requirements using optical networks in a city or region. Optical switching is a new and dynamic area that brings intelligence to optical networks by automating many of the operational requirements that service providers have been addressing manually. Service providers in general are trying address the rising cost of building and running their networks, thus many of the newer optical solutions specifically target both capital expense and operational expense issues. The biggest challenge for all users focusing on the bandwidth provided by optical networks is just how to bridge that last mile between the enterprise and the service provider network, in other words, optical access. Inc. All Rights Reserved.