Tuesday
May152012
The capacity limits facing optical networking
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 8:45AM
Ever wondered just how close systems vendors are in approaching the limits of fibre capacity in optical networks? Kim Roberts, senior director coherent systems at Ciena, adds some mathematical rigour with his explanation of Shannon's bound, from a workshop he gave at the recent Layer123's Terabit Optical and Data Networking conference held in Cannes.
Part 1 Shannon's bound