With the explosive growth of Internet users, the demand for bandwidth communication network has increased significantly.By end of 2000, there were already 29 million Internet domains and growing. Digital library, distance learning, e-commerce, video on demand and peer-to-peer sharing all are engendered by these websites.
Most backbone connections to the Internet level are backed by AT & T, Sprint and Worldcom with a standard speed of 2.5 Gbps. The network infrastructure has serious difficulties to keep up with the demand for bandwidth and that is why 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps and even being deployed and developed by manufacturers of fiber optic equipment.
Future Internet applications will create a further demand on bandwidth and switching capacity of these networking systems. With the onset of Web 2.0 applications more bandwidth hungry which is widely used graphics, pictures and videos are used. The Internet backbone has to keep up with this demand. In fact, many companies have already upgraded their networks to 10Gbps and 40Gbps. (Although still developing 100 Gbps now).Read More
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