Library of Congress brings fiber to the desktop.

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One of the main considerations for users contemplating the move to fiber optics for the desktop is the high cost of installing fiber optic cable to handle expanding needs. The Library of Congress' Madison Building moved to fiber because advances in imaging and storage technologies required increased bandwidths. Increasing numbers of documents being transmitted put greater demands on the network. The institution decided to reduce its long-term local communications costs at the same time, by anticipating future network demands. A parallel fiber backbone network was also installed to accommodate future needs. Services to users were not interrupted at all during the upgrading from the old twisted pair cabling. The cabling infrastructure also had to be vendor-independent and capable of working with a variety of private branch exchanges (PBXs), network servers and local area networks (LANs).

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Library of Congress brings fiber to the desktop.

As users evaluate performance benefits of fiber to the desktop, they must consider not only current applications which use the increased bandwidth but also the potential costs of recabling for expanding needs.

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