How about another basic concept. In fact, how about two? In telecommunications you often hear the terms frequency and wavelength . Sometimes the terms are used almost interchangeably. Well, they are related. In fact, with a bit of math you can convert Read More...

Today's words aren't so much related specifically to SONET as they are related to optical fiber in general. Today we look at two classes of fiber known as multimode fiber (MMF) and single-mode fiber (SMF). These two types of fiber tend to be found Read More...

I've discussed the commodization of bandwidth some time ago in a Podcast entitled " The Perfect Storm ." And still we get closer to having even more and faster throughput with the announcement of a new integrated photonic chip set from Infinera, Read More...