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Fiber Optics
Scientists hope to employ networks of “dark fibres,” unused fibre optic cables, in order to sense sound waves moving underground — the signals of earthquakes.
Currently, the fastest commercially available fibre optic line tops out at 100Gbps. That’s super fast, sure, but isn’t nearly a wide enough pipeline for our increasingly interconnected systems. That’s why this new, multi-modal, fibre line is so exciting — it can pack 2550 times as much data into the same…
There have been vague rumblings about US ISPs stepping up to match Google Fiber’s gigabit internet offering, especially since Google announced that the next fibre city would be Austin. Now 600 residents of Vermont are actually getting those speeds at half the fibre price. What gives?
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