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To: Alex Ryu who wrote (2523)1/26/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: bill c.  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9236
 
Alex: >> But if your road beyond your block is only 3 feet wide to get to work, can you drive one of these fine car to work? <<

Those technologies are coming to speed the backbone fiber. I think todays systems use 8 or 16 channels, but Lucent will have 80 channels/fiber in 4Q98.

MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies unveiled a global optical networking system that delivers five times the bandwidth of today's commercial fiber-optic systems. Lucent's system provides up to 400 gigabit-per-second capacity over a single strand of fiber -- equivalent to carrying the per-second traffic of the entire worldwide Internet over one fiber. AT&T will be the first to test and deploy the new system....

lucent.com