Siemens claims speed record.(TECHNOLOGY)

Optical Networks/WDM, January, 2007

In cooperation with Micram, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut), and Eindhoven Technical University, Siemens has successfully tested the network of the future. This involved the 100 percent electrical processing of data rates of 107Gbps and transmission over a 100-mile-long fiber-optic route in the US--the first time this has ever been done outside the laboratory. The record performance was made possible by a newly developed transmission and receiving system that processes the data by purely electrical means directly before and after its conversion into optical signals. The test was conducted at a long-haul network at one of world's largest optical network operators, in which Siemens has previously deployed a 40Gbps optical...

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