I need an explanation from those with technical expertise. The following story from LU indicates they have increased the amount of data that can be carried through fiber. Would they still need switches such as the ones ASND manufacturers?
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Jan 26 (Reuters) - Lucent Technologies
on Monday unveiled a global optical networking system that it
says delivers five times the bandwidth of currently available
commercial fiber-optic systems and provides up to 400
gigabit-per-second capacity over a single strand of fiber.
AT&T Corp will be the first company to test and deploy the
new system, which is called WaveStar OLS 400G.
Lucent said its new optical networking system can be
configured to handle up to eight such fibers to give
communications providers a maximum capacity of 3.2 terabits, or
3.2 trillion bits, per second of voice, video and data traffic.
Separately, AT&T said that after incorporating the Lucent
system into its own network structure, it will be able to
handle any type of traffic its customers have, in unlimited
amounts.
The company says it is greatly boosting the capacity of its
40,000 route miles of fiber installed in the U.S. through a new
Synchronous Optical Network, or SONET, photonics technology and
is providing its various voice, data and Internet networks over
a common fiber transport system.
AT&T said it will be the first carrier to test and deploy a
system that can carry more than 3 million simultaneous calls on
a single SONET fiber.
"To meet our customers' expectations, AT&T's network needs
to carry every type of traffic they want and in the capacities
they want -- high usage at the lowest cost - and that's what
our new network architecture lets us do," AT&T Chairman C.
Michael Armstrong said in a press release
Thank you in advance.
Glenn |
