Dr. Paul Polisuk
Conference Chair
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One of the main focal points of POFWORLD WEST 2010 will be "POF in
Short-Distance Applications.” There is a growing need for high-speed,
low-cost interconnects in a wide range of applications, including
supercomputers, data centers, storage area networks, home networks,
terminal devices, in-box, box-to-box, rack-to-rack, and on circuit
boards, to name only a few. These applications are from a few
centimeters to 100 meters.
Short-distance POF applications have already
found their way into automobiles, with over 70 models of automobiles
and over 55 million optical nodes on the road in Europe and Asia. This
has resulted in economies of scale, allowing POF to reach its low-cost
potential. This same technology will soon find its way into
short-distance interconnects in industrial, consumer, medical,
computer, and aerospace fields.
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