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Optical Device Technologies? Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) Very dense and inexpensive OEO (scaling & cost reduction) High Functionality PICs Silicon photonics Integration with electronics Manufacturing Infrastructure Sharing (scaling & cost reduction) Microstructured Optical Fibers Customizable optical properties (transmission/all optical networks) How would these breakthroughs change networking? More efficient transmission or fundamental paradigm shift? GOAL: Flexible GENI design to allow Introduction of New Technologies as they mature |