Sonet salesmen solemnly warn new customers that they may use their new handsets only from their offices.

ECONOMIST: Russian telephones

Cut through a Sonet ring and the highly reliable optical gear just sends traffic in the other direction.

FORBES: The God Box

Metro networks have phone gear like digital cross-connects, which manage high-and low-speed traffic, and synchronous optical network (Sonet) systems, which come from fiber-optic phone networks.

FORBES: The God Box

Crosswave uses synchronous optical network (sonet) and wavelength division multiplexing (dwdm) technologies, which enable it to transmit data at high speeds over long distances with a high degree of reliability.

FORBES: 20 FOR 2000