Meeting the broadband access infrastructure demands: The promise of Gigabit Ethernet

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Cheng, Joe Z ^a   Yu, Hsiao Cheng ^a   Sincoskie, W David ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethernet; LAN; MAN; SONET SDH; WAN

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MARKETING; MODEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DATA TRAFFIC; ETHERNET; METROPOLITON AREA NETWORK (MAN); SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY (SDH);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

BROADBAND DATA; INTERNET; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 11344278795     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2003.11.006     Document Type: Article

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