Fibre optic Internet limits smashed by researchers

[Kevin Lancaster]

Fibre optic Internet limits smashed by researchers

Engineers from UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute have “broken the limits” of fibre optic data transmission.

 

[Tinuva]

Pretty darn awesome.

 

[cyberbob1979]

Wow, the idea that you can "hop" continents without a repeater (just about) is very impressive

Pretty smart technology - well done to the engineers

 

[Ockie]

So what is the benefit of this? Cheaper layout costs for fibre networks?

 

[Johnatan56]

So what is the benefit of this? Cheaper layout costs for fibre networks?

Cheaper international bandwidth, lower latencies due to lack of repeaters.
Should also be easier for international bandwidth providers to upgrade their lines, less hardware to swap out (again due to lack of repeaters).