Optical networks are high-capacity telecommunications networks based on optical technologies and components that provide routing, grooming, and restoration at the wavelength level as well as wavelength-based services.
As networks face increasing bandwidth demand and diminishing fiber availability, network providers are moving towards a crucial milestone in network evolution: the optical network. An optical network can transmit any information you can imagine -- phone calls, videos, music, live TV transmissions.
All of these sources of information can be transmitted over long distances by…
