March 1999
Wavelength Division Multiplexing
What's that, you ask? A new technology that's opening vast realms of capacity in the fibers that carry phone and Internet traffic all over the world. None too soon, either.
By Jeff Hecht
Bandwidth in communications is like closet space in your home-you can never have enough. And Internet traffic is making the demand for communication capacity grow faster than the wardrobe of a teenager with a no-limit credit card. Bandwidth-hogging megabytes of animated graphics are replacing compact e-mail messages. Data, video and voice signals crowd transmission systems that had ample space just a few years ago. The communications industry needs room to breathe.
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