Optical Data Transmitted Over 1,500 Miles At 16.4 Tbps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bob Rosenberg [bob.redmountain () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:10 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Optical Data Transmitted Over 1,500 Miles At 16.4 Tbps

Dave

Perhaps for I.P.

[irony]

Here's yet another reason why ISP's need to 'throttle' down the x-mission speed of certain packets.


[/irony]

Bob Rosenberg

http://dodevice.com/optical-data-transmitted-over-1500-miles-at-164-tbps/

Optical Data Transmitted Over 1,500 Miles At 16.4 Tbps 
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Posted By Alexandru Dumitru on March 2, 2008

[http://dodevice.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/fiber-wire.jpg]Alcatel-Lucent researchers disclosed researches that are 
most likely going to revolutionize the internet transmissions, by increasing speeds dramatically. Those researches were 
presented at the Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference and Optical Fiber Communication Conference and 
the company stated that they've used some new technologies, "including a highly linear, balanced optoelectronic 
photoreceiver and an ultra-compact, temperature-insensitive coherent mixer."The researches broke a record, by managing 
to transmit optical data over 2,550km at an incredible speed of 16,b Tbps. For this to be possible, 164 
wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at 100 Gbps were used. Also they have presented three photonic 
integrated circuits, able to reach speeds of up to 100Gbps with a high spectral efficiency.

George Rittenhouse, a VP researcher from Bell Labs stated that "these breakthroughs highlight the depth and breadth of 
the work done by Bell Labs researchers in optical networking and physical technologies around the world, and show how 
they must constantly improve and innovate across various technical areas to pave the way to the future of 
communications." Due to their work we might soon have no worry about the size of a movie, audio file, website or 
document. Hopefully this technology will be implemented and commercialized soon enough.

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