Items tagged with optical-fiber

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New Organic Material May Speed Up Internet

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 - 18:41:07 - Anuradha Menon

The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the...

Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet

Friday, February 20th, 2009 - 16:24:55 - Anuradha Menon

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...

Largest European Telescope Getting Bigger

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 - 10:44:48 - Iddo Genuth

The 100m Radio Telescope Effelsberg enters operations of the e-EVN network, enhancing its sensitivity to detect the radio sky providing the sharpest...

LiTraCon - Light-Transmitting Concrete
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 - Iddo Genuth
Invented by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi in 2001, LiTraCon is a mixture of thousands of optical fibers and fine...