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Article: Standard will aid fiber speeds.(Trends)
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Currently, the legacy multimode fiber (MMF) installed in most enterprise LAN backbones severely limits capacity. Therefore, as the number of networked devices to be aggregated to the future backbone escalates and the volume of new desktop PCs shipping with Gigabit Ethernet capability as standard increases, the installed legacy fiber in the backbones must be migrated to support data rates as much as 100 times higher than they were originally designed for, to harness this 10-fold increase in desktop capability and to prevent transmission bottlenecks,.
The lowest grade of installed MMF only supports robust 10-Gbps transmission to less than 35 meters. The reduced ...