Chasing Shannon’s limit – submarine cable fibre optic communications
Guest Post: Technology developments such as Coherent Optics have allowed us to get closer to the theoretical transmission capacity of submarine cables.
Tag: fibre
Caring for fibre optic cables — damaged is worse than broken
Guest Post: Greg Ferro runs us through the basics of fibre optic cabling, and how damaged cables can cause faults.
NANOG 71: The merit of big, fat, dumb pipes
Dave Schaeffer’s NANOG 71 keynote recognizes that the future of the Internet transmission will be in the form of larger pipes.
Can we build it? Aye, we can!
A local community network in Scotland shows how a grassroots movement can help bridge the digital divide.
IPv6 in the Pacific Island Communities: New Caledonia goes fibre to the home
George Michaelson summarizes the plans by OPT-NC for a nationwide FTTP and 4GLTE deployment from the Pacific Industry Workshop at APNIC 38.