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Saturday, January 19, 2002
http://www.uwiretoday.com/computing011802005.html Researchers test near-light speed computing network at Northwestern U. By Jodi Genshaft, Daily Northwestern (Northwestern U.) (U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. -- Researchers at Northwestern University are helping conduct the first metropolitan test-run of a computing network that operates 10 to 100 times faster than NU's own Ethernet connection. NU's International Center for Advanced Internet Research, or iCAIR, has teamed up with Nortel Networks and SBC Communications Inc. to create an all-optical broadband network that uses light waves, whereas most corporate and university networks use a slower fiber-optic system....
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