Tackling the coming network crunch

A European Union research project is looking at ways to expand by one-hundredfold the capacity of an optical fibre. The project will need to develop techniques to exploit multimode and specialist fibre, and if successful, will require new fibre deployments in the network.

"In the end you run out of the ability to transmit more information along a single-mode fibre"

Ian Giles, Phoenix Photonics

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