Abstract
The use of fiber-optic technology in the world’s telecommunications infrastructure has fundamentally changed the economics of building and maintaining these networks. This change has far-reaching implications—opening the telecommunications world to new competitors, enabling new services, and fundamentally altering the way networks are architected, planned, and implemented.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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