Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway

Name: Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway
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ISBN: 9780306465055

ISBN-10: 0306465051

ISBN-13: 9780306465055

Edition: 2002

Authors: C. David Chaffee

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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 networking; the additional bandwidth created by the Internet and associated data services; liberalization of the global telecommunications industry; and the rewiring of the world's oceans with fiber optics. Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway details all these developments. C.D. Chaffee writes: `One thing is clear: as our networks become primarily data-driven, they need to be built differently, to be able…

Book details

List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 3/31/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 135
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction


Brief Primer



The Ocean As Superhighways



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 Society



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


Index