Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway

• Main Author: Chaffee, C. David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Multimedia information systems.; Electrical engineering.; Economic growth.; Electrical Engineering.; Computer Communication Networks.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Economic Growth.

A re-working of C.D. Chaffee's previously published The Rewiring of America (Academia, 1988), this professional book describes the fiber optics revolution. There have been many changes in the fiber optics field since the book's first publication. These include advances in optical networkin...

Table of Contents:

• The Oceans as Superhighway
• A Global Footprint
• The Business of Ocean Fiber
• North America
• The Rerewiring of America
• Fiber Sprouts in Mexico
• The Canadian Presence
• Bandwidth as Precious Commodity
• The Far East
• Japan’s Twenty-First Century Infocommunications Superhighway
• The Competition Down Under
• China Comes up Huge
• Europe
• Deregulation Shakes the Continent
• The U.K. Testbed
• Deutsche Telekom: Fibering the East, Fighting Competition
• France Adjusts—At Times Painfully
• South America
• A Continent Demanding to Keep up
• An Enlightened Global Community
• Instantaneous Global Communications.