Closing the Gap To Improve the Capacity of Existing Fiber Optic Networks 53
cylonlover writes "A team of researchers working through Australia's Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) has developed data encoding technology that increases the efficiency of existing fiber optic cable networks. The researchers claim their invention, which packs the data channels closer together, increases the data capacity of optical networks to the point that all of the world's internet traffic could be transmitted via a single fiber."
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all of the world's internet traffic could be transmitted via a single fiber.
Um, sure, that's easy.... but how long will it take?
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Time travel is possible -- it's just that so far we've only figured out the forward, linear kind. ;-)
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Or, the non-linear time dilation effects of tequila.
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all of the world's internet traffic could be transmitted via a single fiber.
Um, sure, that's easy.... but how long will it take?
And how long would it take for the first backhoe to come along?