From 2 to 2 Billion Websites in 30 Years
NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As of today, the number of registered websites on the World Wide Web has reached 2 billion, according to algorithms from Worldometer, voted one of the best reference sources by the American Library Association. This milestone was made possible by numerous Internet innovations, none more important than the optical amplifier technology from Ciena, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year as well. The optical amplifier freed up the massive capacity of fiber optics and ushered in The Information Age.
- The optical amplifier freed up the massive capacity of fiber optics and ushered in The Information Age .
- They started Ciena to lead the global rollout of optical amplifiers using dense wave division multiplexing (WDM).
- Websites gave us the information; optical amplifiers carried it at the speed of light.
- In just three decades, bandwidth per fiber has increased one million-fold, allowing the number of websites to increase one billion-fold.