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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (17689)	2/10/2000 7:28:00 PM
From: Rick	Respond to of 54805

Last week's Economist, page 73, had an interesting article. It's title was "Fiat Lux" and it's in their Science and Technology section. "Three technologies are ushering in this photonic nirvana. The first is ultra-dense wave-division multiplexing (UDWDM), which will massively increase the number of messages that can be squirted along a fibre. The second is optical amplification, which avoids the time-consuming business of converting a message into electrons every few kilometres in order to boost its strength. And the third is optical switching, which will stop subjecting the signal to Moore's-Law-bound old technology in the form of electronic computers that cannot keep up with the speed at which photonics is evolving. economist.com - Fred