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Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. C. David Chaffee

    1. Chaffee Fibre Optics, Ellicott City

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Oceans as Superhighway

    1. A Global Footprint

      Pages 17-24

    2. The Business of Ocean Fiber

      Pages 25-30

  3. North America

    1. The Rerewiring of America

      Pages 35-56

    2. Fiber Sprouts in Mexico

      Pages 57-59

    3. The Canadian Presence

      Pages 61-69

    4. Bandwidth as Precious Commodity

      Pages 71-75

  6. South America

    1. A Continent Demanding to Keep up

      Pages 121-126

  7. An Enlightened Global Community

    1. Instantaneous Global Communications

      Pages 129-131

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 133-135
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About this book

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 to handle data first, but also voice. It is a different way of looking at the world.'

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' [...] is a very well written and edited book, which contains a large amount of useful data. As a reference, the book is an excellent introduction to the global fiber optics superhighway. It should be of use to investors, managers, engineers, students and everyone interested in fiber optics.'
Optics and Photonics News, October (2002)

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  • Chaffee Fibre Optics, Ellicott City

    C. David Chaffee

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