Optical networking

• Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• Bandwidth (computing)
• Bell Labs
• Charles Kao
• Ciena
• Copper loss
• Copper wire and cable
• Corning Incorporated
• David Payne (physicist)
• Donald Keck
• Erbium-doped fiber amplifier
• Ethernet
• Facebook Aquila
• Fiber optic cable
• Fiber-optic network
• Free-space optical communication
• G.709
• General Instrument
• General Telephone and Electronics
• Gordon Gould
• High-altitude platform station
• International Telecommunication Union
• Internet
• Internet Protocol
• Kevin Kimberlin
• Light-emitting diode
• Local area network
• Multiplexer
• Optelecom
• Optical Transport Network
• Optical add-drop multiplexer
• Optical amplifier
• Optical circulator
• Optical fiber
• Optical splitter
• Optical switch
• Peter C. Schultz
• Physical media
• Project Loon
• Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer
• Robert D. Maurer
• Sprint Corporation
• Starlink (satellite constellation)
• Synchronous optical networking
• TCP/IP
• Theodore Maiman
• University of Southampton
• Wave-division multiplexing
• Wavelength-division multiplexing
• Wide area network
• attenuation
• coaxial cable
• communication networks
• laser
• laser communication in space
• last mile
• optical communication
• optical mesh network
• passive optical network
• ring network
• satellite constellation