Interconnect innovation key to satiating soaring demand for fiber capacity

Traffic is growing 30 percent every year, there's no reason to believe that'll change, BT's Andrew Lord argues

Every year the bandwidth that telecom networks carry increases by roughly 30 percent. To keep up, the interconnects on which these networks are built are going to need to get a whole lot smarter and more capable before long, BT's Andrew Lord said during his Hot Interconnects keynote early this week....