In Brief: Where Wired and Wireless Networks Converge

"Five years ago, I wasn't thinking about working on wireless," says Gee-Kung Chang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. But after 15 years of work on optical-network technologies, Chang and a team of researchers are now crafting a network design that's a unique hybrid delivering high-speed wired and wireless services from the same signals on one optical fiber.