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The principles and techniques of broadband networks as presented thus far are based in large measure on a single enabling technology: VLSI. With VLSI, we can cost-effectively implement equipment capable of very sophisticated functionality. We can process the routing and protocol headers of information packets in real time, resolve contention for access rights to LANs and MANs, develop self-routing massively parallel space division packet switches, cast all types of telecommunication traffic into a standard, fixed-length cell format, and provide integrated bandwidth-on-demand to many users geographically dispersed over a very wide geography. Except for its use as the medium for high-speed point-to-point transmission links between pairs of electronic multiplexers, switches, or access modules, the technology of fiber optics is not fundamental to realization of the broadband vision.
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Acampora, A.S. (1994). Lightwave Networks. In: An Introduction to Broadband Networks. Applications of Communications Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9165-5_7
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