1993 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
Authors : H. Scott Hinton, J. R. Erickson, T. J. Cloonan, F. A. P. Tooley, F. B. McCormick, A. L. Lentine
Published in: An Introduction to Photonic Switching Fabrics
Publisher: Springer US
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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As our information-hungry society moves toward ubiquitous broadband services there will be the need for telecommunications switching systems able to switch and control large numbers of users sending and receiving this high-bit-rate information. Aggregate capacities of these future systems could exceed 1 Tb/s by the turn of the century. Some of the new services that will require these large capacities include the transport and switching of NTSC video, enhanced-quality television (EQTV), high-definition television (HDTV), switched video, high-data-rate file transfers and information retrieval, animated graphics, in addition to the need for an interconnect for diskless workstations and local area networks/metropolitan area networks (LAN/MAN). These new services are the future of telecommunications companies and thus the driving force to bring photonics into switching systems.