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August 2014

Getting Ready for the Internet of Things

By Casimer DeCusatis | Posted: 26 September 2014

Some funny things happened while the Internet was minding its own business and incessantly growing into every corner of our lives.  Not that we didn’t see it coming.  When I was giving presentations at optics conferences in the late 1990s, I recall a quote from a major industry trade magazine predicting that the data center of the future would be “software and a network”. As the Internet of Things (IoT) begins to take shape, this prediction is coming true in ways that nobody ever imagined.  And optical networking is positioned to play a major role in the IoT.

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