Researchers achieve fastest real-world fiber speeds of 1.4Tb/s
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Alcatel-Lucent and BT have today announced trial speeds of up to 1.4Tb/s with a record spectral efficiency of 5.7 bits per second per Hertz (b/s/Hz)on an existing core fiber connection. This is believed to be the fastest speed ever achieved in commercial grade hardware in a real-world environment and is equivalent to transmitting 44 uncompressed HD films in a single second.