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Fiber optic technology has catalyzed the information revolution. Its impact is as profound on telecommunications as the impact of the internal combustion engine on transportation. It is just that fiber has not reached every home, even though the automobile has; but then the fiber optic industry is a full generation younger than the automobile industry. The quantum jump in the information rate to the subscribers from that in copper based systems can only make the customers demand and get newer services such as multimedia, video on demand, televideo at telephone prices, high definition TV at CATV prices, instant classrooms, and a very real, accurate and personalized knowledge society just for the asking.
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Ahamed, S.V., Lawrence, V.B. (1997). Impact of Fiber Optic Technology. In: Design and Engineering of Intelligent Communication Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6291-7_16
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