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To: Techplayer who wrote (1177)	1/17/2001 3:23:35 AM
From: David C. Burns	of 2260

Jan 2001 online issue of Scienterrific American: The Triumph of the Light Extensions to fiber optics will supply network capacity that borders on the infinite Gary Stix, Staff Writer "From idea to development happens fast: a 1998 paper in Science on a "perfect mirror," a dielectric (insulating) material that reflects light at any angle with little loss of energy, inspired the founding of a company that wishes to create a hollow fiber whose circumference is lined with the reflector. The fibers may increase capacity 1,000-fold, one company official claims." sciam.com (There are two more articles in the hardcopy edition not on the website: The Rise of Optical Switching, by Bishop, Giles and Dos "Eliminating electronic switches will free networks to transmit trillions of bits of data per second." Routing Packets with Light, by Blumenthal "The ultimate optical network will depend on novel systems for processing information with lightwaves."

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