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HIGH SPEED NETWORKS HAVE A NAME : DWDM

Hermes Pereira , Business Manager at AGORA , a value-added distributor and provider of complete ICT solutions , explains the benefits and performance of high-speed networks .

With a difficult name , Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing ( DWDM ) technology has been gaining prominence in this pandemic with remote work . Since then , Internet demand has grown between 40 % and 50 % in Brazil , according to data from the National Telecommunications Agency ( Anatel ). Because traffic in the country has changed , moving mainly to the Edge of the network , thanks to the strong increase in demand in homes with home offices , online shopping , remote classes and entertainment . The change in habit was immense and access to the Internet kept growing .

Although DWDM networks have been around since the 1990s , they have started to become popular as a reflection of the increase in traffic demand in recent years , which calls for an increasingly agile , scalable , flexible and economically viable infrastructure .
In addition to the growing importance of local networks , the increasing complexity of workstation applications has also contributed to the need for highspeed networks .
Right now , an unimaginable amount of data is being shared by transmission technologies , and every day , companies are betting on fiber optics to fulfill this activity . The need to expand the capacity of existing networks , added to the expansion of FTTH networks by Internet providers , created a favorable scenario for
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