Space Optical Communications in the Global Information Infrastructure

The information explosion is producing ever increasing demands on systems that move data from one point to another. Computer connectivities to the work place, or to the home, will enable vast quantities of data (text, imagery and movies) to be assimilated and processed. As users demands increase, so to will the need for high data rate trunking of aggregate data sets. Much of this data flow will be handled by fiber optic networks.