Networks: An Automated Future?

fibers.org News, 24 Apr 2006 It's 40 years since the concept of transmitting information via light signals through glass was first formally proposed. Scientists at UK-based Standard Telecommunication Laboratories published a paper describing the guiding of light along an optical fibre and cited the technique as having "important potential as a new form of communication medium." A lot has changed since the first demonstration of communication over optical fibre. Nowadays, it's cost, not speed, that's driving the new technology breakthroughs. Read more