Thursday, December 21, 2006
Germany's Siemens AG has set a new speed record for electrical processing of data through a fiber-optic cable, it said on Wednesday, opening the possibility of cheaper Internet and data networks.
Siemens said in a statement it had processed data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second, roughly two full DVDs per second, and sent it over a single optical fiber channel in a 100 mile-long (161-kilometre) U.S. network, the first time outside of a laboratory.
Online games, music and video downloads are generating increasing amounts of Internet traffic, creating a need for ever faster and affordable transmission.
The test, 2.5 times faster than a previous maximum transmission performance per channel, was done in cooperation with Germany's Micram Microelectronic, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications and Eindhoven Technical University of the Netherlands.
By: DocMemory
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