Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway

A re-working of C.D. Chaffees previously published <em>The Rewiring of</em> <em>America</em> (Academia, 1988), this professional book describes the fiber optics revolution. There have been many changes in the fiber optics field since the books first publication. These include advances in optical networking; the additional bandwidth created by the Internet and associated data services; liberalization of the global telecommunications industry; and the rewiring of the worlds oceans with fiber optics. <em>Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway</em> details all these developments. C.D. Chaffee writes: One thing is clear: as our networks become primarily data-driven, they need to be built differently, to be able to handle data first, but also voice. It is a different way of looking at the world.