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Jeff Hecht Guest Contributor

  • Light Signals Direct

    Telecommunications: Local optical networks skip the fibers.

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    Fiber Optics to the Home

    Fiber optics has helped push the telecommunications system into hyperdrive. But only when fiber connections reach all the way into the home will the technology’s promise be fully realized.

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    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.

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