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PHOTONICS APPLIED: OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS: Are 100G networks ready for prime time?

12/01/2009

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Although today’s optical fiber communications traffic is encoded at 1 or 10 Gbit/s speeds, companies like Facebook are not alone in the push to 100 Gbit/s networks. Gail Overton
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