Particularlywith regard to therapidlygrowingcapacityrequirementsofmoderndatanetworks, the aforementionedfeatures of thefibre opticscannot be reached by anyothertechnology.
More than two full generations of Moore's law (which says that the number of transistors squeezed on to a computer chip doubles every 18 months) have passed since the tech bubble burst, as have more than three generations of fibre-optics communications technology.