History's youngest and most powerful telecommunications
technology
Already in early 1900s scientists discovered that you could
successfully send light through a bent glass tube, but not before
the early 1960s was the concept applied in telecommunications. In
1965 two British scientists succeeded in manufacturing an optical
fibre of very pure (silica) glass, thus achieving very low
attenuation of the light signal. Today, light signals can be
transmitted over fibres of 70 to 150 km in length without the need
for amplification.
Zero resistance
The optical fibre's biggest advantage over copper is that
resistance is virtually zero. This means that you can send light
signals carrying huge amounts of information over long distances
without the signal disappearing or being attenuated significantly.
This makes fibre an easy technology to work with, and also results
in very high quality solution for transmitting large amounts of
data.
Nearly Infinite bandwidth
The medium for transferring information on an optical fibre is
light, and white light contains a virtually infinite number of
frequencies. This means that a fibre can deliver extremely high
speeds for data transmission. In 2009 the D.T.U. in Lyngby
(Technical University of Denmark) set a new world record for
data transmission on a single fibre: 5.1 Terabit per second or
5,100 Gigabits per second. And progress continues to happen at a
rapid pace.
Flexibility in practice
Fibre technology is today an effective and flexible network
technology with huge potential to reach out to individuals and
businesses with entirely new types of super-fast communications.
Commercial fibre equipment today delivers up to 400 gigabits per
second per fibre with WDM, and cables and cable-laying has become
routine. At GlobalConnect, we believe that the future looks
bright.