The day an average telecom carrier can send 1 trillion bits (one terabit) of data per second down a single optical fiber may still be many years away. But in the lab, the single-fiber terabit threshold may well be crossed just one or two years from now, thanks to recent research. Two groups of engineers—one from Australia and Denmark and the other from California—have independently created new optics technologies that could greatly increase the Internet's speed limits. (source: spectrum.ieee.org)
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