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Michael A. Schulman <mschulman@ms-computing.com> wrote:
: Jerry Baker wrote:

: Its called the Pickard Maneuver.  But now that I think about it, The light

Not to be confused with the Picard Maneuver, which is the pulling down
of one's uniform after rising from the seated position in the captain's
chair.

: I cant find the article, but I was reading about a new type of fiber they are
: trying to use for networking.  Instead of one beam of light per fiber they
: have multiple colors of light per wire which greatly increases the bandwidth.

Its a Lucent technology by the name of Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
(if memory serves).  Qwest uses this on their fibers.  It allows them
to multiply the bandwidth of a single fiber MANY times.

The cool thing is that they use "Erbium doped pump lasers" to amplify
the signal.  Now tell me that doesn't sound cool.  :)

ObStarTrekDopeRef: "Captain!  Why were you being stoned?" - Spock


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