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Leading 'Edge': Plastic Fiber Slashes Network Costs
Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf components could make optical networking so cheap and simple that anyone could install it.
Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf components could make optical networking so cheap and simple that anyone could install it.
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Sunday, Jan 13, 2008, 3:14pm
Views: 1517
Posted on: Sunday, Jan 13, 2008, 3:14pm
Views: 1517
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