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The speed just gets faster

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In the late 1990s, Lucent Bell Labs has achieved
transfer rate of 5 trillion bits per second

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Jan 2001: Lucent announced 1.6-trillion-bit-per-
second networking system (320 million

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one-page e-mails simultaneously)

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Bandwith triples every 12 months at current rates

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Prediction is this will continue for 20 years

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We are in the stone age of the

photonics age