One second for 720 DVDs: New super-fast fiber optic cableKDDI R&D Laboratories, research arm of KDDI (a Japanese telcom) and Japan's National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT) yesterday announced [JP, PDF] the development of the world's most advanced fiber optic cable.
The companies claim their new cable is able to transmit data around 10 times faster than existing cables (30 terabits per second vs. around 3). In other words, 720 DVDs with two hours of video can be handled within a single second.
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