Sometimes the future catches up with us before we even know it. Consider the videophone, a technology that never quite caught on. However, relatively quietly over the past few years, enabled by the availability of broadband service, Skype and similar services have made video calls over computers an ordinary part of many people’s daily lives. An example is occurring in the use of single-mode fiber optic networks. For years, we’ve been waiting for equipment and applications that enable us to utilize the entire spectrum that fiber offers. Again, somewhat quietly, new wavelengths in the previously unusable “E” band (defined as 1360 – 1460 nm) are being claimed at a speedy pace, fulfilling the promise of full-spectrum optical fiber.|Sometimes the future catches up with us before we even know it. Consider the videophone, a technology that never quite caught on. However, relatively quietly over the past few years, enabled by the availability of broadband service, Skype and similar services have made video calls over computers an ordinary part of many people’s daily lives. An example is occurring in the use of single-mode fiber optic networks. For years, we’ve been waiting for equipment and applications that enable us to utilize the entire spectrum that fiber offers. Again, somewhat quietly, new wavelengths in the previously unusable “E” band (defined as 1360 – 1460 nm) are being claimed at a speedy pace, fulfilling the promise of full-spectrum optical fiber.

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