Light Speed Bandwidth: Optical Networking

Written by: Khang Nguyen

          Tired of those lousy 56K dial-up slow connections to the Internet?  Well, be prepared to be amazed at what the future of bandwidth for the Internet will be, even cable modems and DSL won’t be able to compete against this new medium.  Companies such as Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs are developing better optical networks for the 21^st Century of the Internet.

            In reality optical networks were first seen in the early 1980s with the introduction of the fiber-optic cables.  The increase of network quality speed has led many developers to vastly improve the medium.

            Well, this is good news for people who like high bandwidth on the Internet.  But maybe with the introduction with new optical network, the Internet may also change.  Think about it, the Internet will be able to hold more content and media than ever before and more places will probably be more integrated with cyberspace.

“Optical Networking will be as important to the 21^st century as electricity was to the 20^th century.”

-Gerry Butters, Group President of Lucent Technologies

For more information go to:

Lucent Technologies, http://www.lucent-optical.com

Web ProForum, http://www.webproforum.com/opt_net/index.html