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Potential breakthrough in internet speeds announced: Repeaters no longer needed?
Posted on 6/29/15 at 9:26 am
Posted on 6/29/15 at 9:26 am
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The advance has the potential to make the internet superfast by increasing data transmission rates for the fibre optic cables -- which serve as the backbone of the internet, cable, wireless and landline networks.
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In lab experiments, the researchers successfully deciphered information after it travelled a record-breaking 12,000 km through fibre optic cables with standard amplifiers and no repeaters, which are electronic regenerators.
This has the potential to rev up the speeds of data across fiber in an exponential fashion. It's also going to be interesting to see what this does on the cost of internet/data services to homes and businesses as this has the potential to reduce overhead for ISP's as it increases their service levels simultaneously.
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This post was edited on 6/29/15 at 9:27 am
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Posted on 6/29/15 at 9:29 am to GFunk
Isn't the bottleneck still at the home. I have a fairly new home but still don't have fiber in my house. Plus the crappy modem/router that companies give out.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 9:30 am to GFunk
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It's also going to be interesting to see what this does on the cost of internet/data services to homes and businesses as this has the potential to reduce overhead for ISP's
Comcast, ATT, Cox etc...will NOT pass those savings in overhead down to the customer....if anything they will charge more for the increase in speeds.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 9:46 am to GFunk
FTTH will make the difference. Don't get me wrong, I think the breakthrough is great. It doesn't mean much to most though until FTTH is ubiquitous.
This post was edited on 6/29/15 at 9:47 am
Posted on 6/29/15 at 11:45 am to GFunk
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