Fiber optic technology supports increasing bandwidth requirements in carrier and enterprise networks.

Carrier

Carrier fiber optic networks are increasing in speed to 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps. DWDM, ROADM, and packet optical network platforms are evolving to support high-speed Ethernet and IP traffic. SONET/SDH, MPLS, GMPLS, OTN, and other protocols are used to control traffic transmission.

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The Lightwave Channel
Pathmal Gunawardana, head of the Optical Connectivity Group - North America at Nokia Siemens Networks, discusses the joint venture with Juniper Networks, the company's philosophy on IP/optical convergence, and NSN's strategy for 100G.
The Lightwave Blog
Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts January 26...
Jim Theodoras, ADVA Optical Networking
Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Given the...