Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Plastic Fiber Could Make Optical Networking a DIY Project

Posted by timothy on

An anonymous reader writes "A new European project using plastic fiber and off-the-shelf components could make optical networking so cheap and simple that installation could be a DIY job for even a non-technical person. The object of EU-funded POF-ALL project is to find a technical solution to the rising cost of taking optical fiber right into the home." A mere "few hundred metres" of 100mbps (since plastic is thus far dimmer than glass) would suffice to wire any home I'm likely to occupy.

2 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. RICHARD DUNN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This Friday on Channel 5 late-night, Richard Dunn interviews David Nevarro of Jane Addiction / Red Pepper fame and German sythsizer band Die Dunkel Jungen. Don't miss it!

    Channel 5 is on Five'r!
    9p Uncle Muscles Hour
    10p DunnProv
    11p DUNNGEON

    [voteronpaul]

  2. Re:Advantages over Ethernet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The advantage is you get to use the word "thus" for no reason. Thus thus thus.