Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light2013-03-28 09:23 by DanielaTags: Fiber, network
Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the speed of light. They successfully transferred 73.7 terabits of information per second, which is approximately 10 terabytes per second. The achievement broke all past records and demonstrated a much lower latency as well. In fact, this demonstration was approximately 1 thousand times faster than any fiber optic network available today. The success of the experiment is due to fibers developed by the researchers - they are hollow, thereby allowing the light to move without any interference and much like it does in our natural surroundings. While the idea of a hollow fiber optic cable has been around for some time, it was never successfully implemented because the light just can't travel as fast due to the nature of the conduit, at least not until now. While this new design is incredibly fast it will not be replacing most of the fiber optic cables in use. The researchers say it may be replacing the fiber optics used in supercomputer interconnections and data centers, which would benefit the most from this type of latency boost and data transfer rate. Read more -here-
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