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ERAS OF THE NETWORK

A quarter century of infrastructure history, as we covered it.

2001–2005

After the Bubble

The telecom downturn, broadband buildouts, VoIP's rise, and the industry's slow recovery.

2006–2010

Carrier Ethernet & 40G

Metro Ethernet, IPTV, FTTH expansion, early smartphones, and the first 40G/100G trials.

2011–2015

SDN, NFV & 100G

OpenFlow, network virtualization, LTE at scale, coherent 100G, and the cloud's takeover.

2016–2020

Cloud Scale & 5G

Hyperscaler data centers, 400G optics, 5G launches, Open RAN, and merchant silicon.

2021–2026

The AI Infrastructure Era

800G and 1.6T optics, GPU clusters, co-packaged optics, hollow-core fiber, and gigawatt data centers.

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