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To: Skeet Shipman who wrote (51554)	5/8/2001 1:46:40 PM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Fiber optic capacity keeps increasing Researchers have shown commercially available arrayed waveguide gratings can turn a single pulse of laser light into a rapid-fire burst of 21 pulses, each separated by only two trillionths of a second. That's at least 10 times faster than the transmission speed of each channel in state-of-the-art commercial optical communication systems. The worldwide market for optical switch components and subsystems will soar from $308 million in 2000 to $2.8 billion in 2005. After that, it will continue growing at 42 percent a year, reaching $16.1 billion in 2010, according to a forecast from ElectroniCast Corp..