Monday, 27 October 2014

255 terabits

A group of scientists from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Central Florida  had published scientific articles with the results of the experiment on record speed data transmission over fiber optic cable. Using a new type of optical fiber, they managed to register a speed of 255 terabits per second, which is a record  today.

New optical fiber comprises seven different cables for transmission of information whereas the the usual optical fiber comprises a single cable. So appeared a possibility significantly increase a speed. Moreover, for each channel, researchers have introduced additional two orthogonal dimensions for data transmission, i.e. for each channel rate had tripled. Due to all of these improvements was possible to increase the speed up to 255 terabits / s, which is 20 times more than the current norm now for optical fiber 4-8 terabits / second.

The diameter of is developed optical fiber  is 200 microns, so that the entire cable is not much bigger than that used today. At the same time it can be significantly increased the capacity of communication channels.


Source: xaker.ru

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