Using an optical processor to operate in the E- and S-band ranges, UK researchers hit a transfer rate of 301 terabits per second.
  • thbb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I remember the early 90’s when fiber connection was being developed in research centers.

    Researchers had found a way to transmit all of a country’s phone calls’ bandwidth through a simple fiber cable. Then, they wondered: what could we use this for?

    This was a few years before the explosion of the internet…

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      1988 TAT-8 already went into productive use as the first transatlantic fiber optic connection. So the lab work must have happened in the 80’s already.