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STRUCTURE 08: CTO Infinera Video Swamping Net, Optical Can Help

Posted on June 25, 2008

Drew Perkins, the CTO of Infinera, which sells Internet optical transport equipment, says that video is soaking up the Internet s bandwidth and lucky for him, driving the optical networking business.For those of you who don t know what the optical transport layer is, it s the bottom layer plumbing of the Internet. Back in 2000/2001 when Perkins and his colleagues started the company he was optimistic that the Internet would still grow significantly and of course they were proven right. Back then, we thought the optical transport layer was about 10 gigabit technology. We ll n...

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bandwidth , internet