Abstract

The growing demand for more advanced local area networks (LANs), capable of accommodating higher capacity services, has led to a parallel increasing demand for low-cost, greater speed, backbone links to support these networks. Development of higher transmission rate links would require the application of new techniques that will upgrade the existing interconnects capacity, for reasons of cost and reliability. Many installed potential links in LANs employ 62.5 µm core diameter multimode fibre (MMF) with typical link lengths of 300 m.

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