In this section, we're looking at the Local Area Network market where laser power requirements are in the mW range.  We focus on prices and profits for sources and detectors. 

Local Area Network

  A brief introduction can be found at Wikipedia. Notable points include:

• - computer network covering a small geographic area, like a
  
• - home, office, or group of buildings.[1
• - 10/100/1000 GBps - we'll concentrate on 1000 GBps 
• - no need for leased telecommunication lines.
• - Smaller LANs consist of a few switches typically connected to each other and with one connected to a router,
• - Larger LANs are characterized by distributing Ethernet traffic roles within the network
• - network connecting two or more LANs is referred to as the WAN (Wide Area Network)
• - Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), and MPLS/VPN services connect LANs together and provide additional functionality