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British Telecommunications Firm's Silicon Chip Eases Data Bottlenecks.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 1999 by Glover, Tony
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 15 -- Data bottlenecks are bad for business but brilliant opportunities for companies that sell the technology to unblock them.
The biggest bottleneck is on the data networks that run the Internet, where the volume of traffic doubles every 100 days as more people come online.
Watching video, listening to music and making video-conference calls over the Internet eats up bandwidth, the carrying capacity of the "pipelines' that run the Internet.
To increase bandwidth, telecoms companies are laying huge fibre-optic cable networks across the globe. Fibre-optic cables transmit digital data using light. Their advantage over traditional copper networks is that they can shift huge amounts of data over...
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