WDM technology is an effective method to enlarge the capacity of optical fiber communication and to use fully optical fiber bandwidth.

利用WDM技术则是扩大光纤通信容量、充分挖掘光纤带宽资源的有效手段。

youdao

Apply the relevant laws and you'll have a pretty accurate idea where microprocessor performance, PC usage, display technology, fiber optic bandwidth, wireless PDAs, games, the Web, etc. will be two, three and five years from now.

FORBES: Opportunity Knocking

But since 1995, that simple anatomy has given way to several separate backbones -- thousands of miles of extremely-high-bandwidth fiber-optic cable owned by the likes of Sprint, GTE, IBM, and MCI WorldCom, connecting major metropolitan areas all over the country.

CNN: What will the Internet of the future be like?

In lay terms, it could allow increased bandwidth for fiber optics, and since it's built on-chip, integration with existing doodads shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

ENGADGET: Caltech invention focuses light like never before, could bolster next-gen communication platforms