The Status of Fiber Optics

Abstract

The past decade has witnessed dramatic changes in the communications industry and specifically the fiber optics industry. The markets, technology, and manufacturing infrastructure have gone through what may be one of the greatest expansion phases and the corresponding consolidations. Companies like Worldcom were formed, grew to be comparable to AT&T and have now filed for protection under bankruptcy law. In this paper, I will discuss some of the issues from a market and technology perspective that lead to these changes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADP015067

Entities

People

  • David Welch

Organizations

  • Infinera

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Commerce
  • Cost Reductions
  • Costs
  • Data Rate
  • Delaware
  • Fiber Optics
  • Fibers
  • Infrastructure
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Networks
  • Optics
  • Optics Industry
  • Semiconductors
  • Technical Information Centers

Readers

  • Economics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.