Towards an Optical Internet (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780792375418
Subjects: Communications engineering / telecommunications; Computer Communications & Networking; Optoelectronics; Imaging Systems; Technology & Industrial Arts; Fiber Optics Engineering; Technology; Optics; Computer Books: General; Optical communications; Internet - General; General; Networking - General; Computers / Networking / General; Congresses; Computer Networks; Fiber optics
First sentence: The advent of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) [Brackett, 1990] provided a solution to the problem of speed mismatch between the fiber bandwidth and the electronics speed, which is better known as the electronic bottleneck problem [Kaminow, 1989].