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Irish Gov't Invests In Color-Coded Fiber Optics
c0mpliant writes "The Irish government has invested a further €5 million, after already having invested €5 million one year ago, in a new system of fiber optics which heralds an era of virtualization of fiber networks, using color coding to enable multiple fiber providers to serve businesses and homes, often on a single strand of fiber. The technology, which has already sparked interest from companies such as BT and IBM, is already in its first phase and boasts an impressive 2.5 terabytes capacity, double the capacity of the London phone system. The company behind the technology, Intune Technology, is comprised of a group of ex-UCD photonics researchers and has been around since 1999 and are based in Dublin. The project is set to be completed by 2020."
Meh, my hard drive can store almost that much already.
Indeed
All you need now is a pigeon to send the data.
Eat that, you drunk handless dancers.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Whiskey was invented to prevent the irish from ruling the world
I would give everything i own for a little bit more.
You sound like a dirty commie socialist to me!
Don't you know that the market will sort everything out and that companies need to compete fiercely with each other, jealously guarding their secrets and infrastructure rather than this wussy "sharing" and "co-operating" to benefit the consumer in the way you suggest? ;-)
We've seen your world, yer welcome to it.
They've really been putting the "fail" in "Fianna Fáil", eh?
Another thing for the Catholics & Prods to argue over. Who gets the green wires...
That's not the problem. The problem come when they try to lay an orange wire in a catholic street or a green one in a protestant one.
Never mind the green wires, pity the uptimes of the poor bastards whose traffic goes over the black and tan ones...
so the irish are asserting that there are financial benefits in adapting this prismatic fibre optic technology?
in other words, there is a pot of gold, at the end of the rainbow?
where did the irish get such an idea?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it