Alcatel-Lucent achieves a world record 25.6 Terabit/s optical transmission

March 29th, 2007

“Alcatel-Lucent today announced in a post deadline paper accepted at the OFC/NFOEC conference in Anaheim, California, that combined research teams from the United States and France successfully transmitted a world record 25.6 Terabits per second (Tb/s) of optical data over a single fiber strand, using 160 Wavelength-Division Multiplexed (WDM) channels - enough bandwidth to transmit the data from more 600 DVDs per second. These results far surpass the previous transmission record of 14 Tb/s, established in September 2006…” (Read full article here)

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