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 JDS Uniphase Corp. (Nasdaq: JDSU; Toronto: JDU)’s David Gudmundson, Nokia Siemens Networks ’s Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, and Heavy Reading’s own Sterling Perrin.
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