Optical fibre network for offices

EE 44 July/August 1986 AN OPTICAL-FIBRE NETWORK FOR OFFICES, FACTORIES AND HOSPITALS A very versatile experimental local telecommuni- cation network based on optical fibres has recently been installed at the Ge/drop Project Centre - a part of Philips Research. Known as PH/LAN - Philips Integrated Local Area Network - this system is used both for studying the possibilities and difficulties of such a system and for demonstrating likely applications, which may not be immediately obvious, to interested parties This new network will mainly be used for these studies; it is not intended as a product prototype. Computers and their derivatives have been used in offices, labora- tories, hospitals and fac- tories for years, and in the future there will be even more of them. They are used for word processing, electronic filing systems, administration, automated measurements, processing X-ray exposures displayed as television pictures, and, finally, for monitoring and control of automated ...