Vishay adds to Tantamount

• Book ID: 104366063
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(03)00049-8

✦ Synopsis

The massive power outage in the US in August showed the speed at which optical data networks recover from fault incidents and the consequences that an interruption of even seconds can have.

To prevent catastrophic failures, network designers rely on expensive, highly redundant ring networks. Now a University of Arkansas computer engineer Kazem Sohraby demonstrates that a properly designed mesh network is more cost-effective and is as reliable. Prof Sohraby worked with Kamala Murti and Ramesh Nagarajan of Lucent Bell Labs.