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Photonics Switches: Fast, but Functional?

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A multitude of photonic switching technologies are poised to unleash the all-optical network, but will the network they all to support support all of them?

Daniel C. McCarthy, Senior Editor/Special Projects

The continuing success of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) seems to have put to rest any concerns about the accessibility of bandwidth, even in the face of the Internet's exponential growth. However, while it has lent some control over future transport challenges, WDM has also raised the question of hot to route the capacity explosion it has enabled. The problem is with the somewhat misleadingly named optical switching technology. These switches have at their core an electronic layer that some predict will form bottlenecks as escalating photonic traffic passes through. Because...Read full article

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