Infinite Bandwidth on the backbone

Guilder’s Law: network speeds will triple every year for the next 25 years. -- This dwarfs Moore’s law!

Status

• 1999 many backbones at or above 40 Gb/s
• 2000 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
  WorldCom uses Nortel Networks’ OPTera* 1600G technology (transmits 10 Gbps over 160 parallel channels on a single fiber, making total capacity 1.6 terabits per second)
  Telia uses Lucent DWDM to build Viking Ring
• 2001 ???

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