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The optical communications industry is back on the rise, but this time it’s the consumer who is driving the networks’ needs for agility and innovation. Applications such as YouTube and Facebook are creating ever more unpredictable stresses on the network, but how are the equipment providers responding? Is photonic integration the answer on the road to 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s networks? LRTV looks at what lies in the future for the optical industry with JDSU’s David Gudmundson, NSN’s Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, and Heavy Reading’s own Sterling Perrin.
The inventor of Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe, will be the keynote speaker at OFC/NFOEC, where he will tackle the subject of the future of Ethernet, which he is calling Terabit Ethernet. Check out Metcalfe's predictions on timeframe and the technology it will take to get us there.
While cleaning out our video cupboard we found this bit of tape from TelcoTV 2007, a quiz game we played with some good-natured exhibitors on the show floor. Nothing particularly revealing here, unless you find it surprising that industry folk know their sandwiches from their video products
While cleaning out our video cupboard we found this bit of tape from TelcoTV 2007, a quiz game we played with some good-natured exhibitors on the show floor. Nothing particularly revealing here, unless you find it surprising that industry folk know their sandwiches from their video products
