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The telecommunications industry is in a ceaseless search for groundbreaking technology and management strategies to deliver more bandwidth.

Gaynell Terrell, Senior News Editor/Business

The telecommunications industry is in a frenzy to deliver more bandwidth. The (mostly) all-optical network concept, with a modicum of mechanical and electrical switches, is the future. But before that happens, the industry must learn to integrate what it already has: an alphabet soup of hardware and software, electrical and optical switches, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transport solutions, asynchronous transfer mode backbones, SONET rings, and many other devices linking optical fiber and legacy systems. "A lot of optical network systems have been employed just to...Read full article

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