Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780306465055
Subjects: Fibre optics; Laser technology; Electronics Industries (Economic Aspects); Fiber Optics Engineering; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Science/Mathematics; Economics - General; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Industries - General; Technology / Engineering / Electrical; Optics; Fiber optics industry
First sentence: Many wonderful stories have contributed to the growth and worldwide renown of the fiber optics industry.
Description: A re-working of C.D. Chaffee's previously published The Rewiring of America (Academia, 1988), this professional book describes the fiber optics revolution. There have been many changes in the fiber optics field since the book's first publication. These include advances in optical networking; the additional bandwidth created by the Internet and associated data services; liberalization of the global telecommunications industry; and the rewiring of the world's oceans with fiber optics. Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway details all these developments. C.D. Chaffee writes: `One thing is clear: as our networks become primarily data-driven, they need to be built differently, to be able to handle data first, but also voice. It is a different way of looking at the world.'