Anticipating the demands of the MAN: legacy voice services provide a significant revenue base for carriers to build out their new service models.(metropolitan area network)

From: Fiberoptic Product News | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Technology developments and traffic demands are transforming the dynamics of the metropolitan area network (MAN). The virtual explosion of bandwidth in the local-area networks (LANs), the deployment of Gigabit Ethernet, and the growth of Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) in long haul wide area networks (WAN) have all served to fuel the demand for servicing greater amounts of data traffic.

Today, the majority of the LAN and WAN traffic converges at the MAN--the transport technology is a series of fiber optic rings that typically circle a major metropolitan area. Within ...

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