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foresight” comes into play here. These same carriers are now
feeling the lack of existing infrastructure on many of their
routes. Consider backbone providers who have thousands of
miles of interstate fiberoptics and who are now being placed into
a position of having to rebuild their entire routing and
infrastructure because of a short-sighted vision.
Figure 5-9 shows the overall demand outstripping the capacities
over short periods. The carriers must now face this dilemma.
Figure 5-9
The shift from
demand and
capacity
Demand For Bandwidth
Current Fiber Capacity
Time
