Contributing “Laws” (3)

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

Jan 2001: Lucent announced 1.6-trillion-bit-
per-second networking system (320 million
one-page e-mails simultaneously) *

Bandwidth triples every 12 months at
current rates

Prediction is this will continue for 20 years

We are in the STONE AGE of the photonics
age

Ian Jukes, Educational Technology Planners
(www.thecommittedsardine.net)

*http://www.lucent.com/press/0101/010
117.nsa.html