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Closing the Gap To Improve the Capacity of Existing Fiber Optic Networks

Posted by samzenpus on from the building-it-better dept.

cylonlover writes "A team of researchers working through Australia's Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) has developed data encoding technology that increases the efficiency of existing fiber optic cable networks. The researchers claim their invention, which packs the data channels closer together, increases the data capacity of optical networks to the point that all of the world's internet traffic could be transmitted via a single fiber."

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  1. Re:Latency? by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoops, speed of light / refractive index, otherwise time travel possible.

    Time travel is possible -- it's just that so far we've only figured out the forward, linear kind. ;-)

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