April 5, 2002

Once Hog Butcher for the World, Chicago Is a City of Advanced Optical Networks

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Chicago -- once hog butcher for the world, the nation's freight handler, city of the big shoulders -- is becoming a metropolis of futuristic data networks.

Researchers, telecommunications executives, and politicians have ambitions for making Chicago an international hub for laser-light networks. Researchers at the city's major research universities predict that such networks will be the workhorse technology for generations of the Internet to come. "This technology is more

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