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Optical Switching
2/23/2004 10:25 AM EST
Optical Switching
Digital switches shoulder optical job
MEMS switches curb infrastructure cost
Taking a hybrid optical-switch approach
Metropolitan transport networks continue to evolve
Hybrid optical networks let carriers have their cake and eat it
Mesh nets weave path protection/restoration schemes
Optical switches move carriers closer to central IP routing
New nano-optic methods for electronically controlled optical devices
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Optical nets unveil piecewise
Once predicted to take communications carriers by sudden storm, the all-optical network
is instead unrolling piece by piece.
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