“If I can use the existing infrastructure rather than put in new optical [systems], I'd rather do that,”
Bill Harris
“All optical switching is clearly one of the next great hurdles for the fiber optic industry.”
Kevin Kalkhoven
“Nortel is their largest customer for optical equipment. A sharp slowdown at Nortel in deployment of optical systems certainly is not good for Corning, and I think this new lowered information accelerates or adds a little bit to the time frame (for a turnaround),”
Timothy Anderson
“Optical scan systems are more accessible, affordable and more easily audited.”
Eva Ritchey
“We are migrating optical data networking deeper and deeper into the hardware itself. Optical components inside systems provide higher data speeds and no cross talk. ... The box gets faster and smaller.”
David Honey
“We would have ended up with a dual system - optical scan plus electronic machine in each polling place for handicapped voters - and still had to buy the machines. We decided to replace the entire system.”
Gary Hutchison
“This work has opened a new frontier in optics and optical technology whose final implications we cannot yet guess. That sounds like hyperbole, but I think it's true.”
Daniel Kleppner
