Fibre Optic Cables - The Future of Internet

The ever-increasing volume of data being transmitted through the Internet has always been a concern for scientists all over the world. But, there is good news for us who live in the worldwide web. Fibre optic cables hold the online future of the world safely in their hands. As a Maxis subscriber, you have the right to know the latest developments in the field. Here are some of the record-breaking innovations science has made in the matter.

Breaking 100-terabits per second Internet speed limit
Until recently, technicians believed that the maximum speed fibre optic cables offer is 100 terabits per second. But, two teams of researchers have found out ways to break this belief. While one group created new channels within the cable, the other altered the frequency of the light being used. The former team was able to send 101.7terabits of data per second while the latter went even farther; 109 terabits per second. The trouble is that 100 terabits per second is multiple times faster than an individual consumer can expect. 100 TBPS will show 3 HD videos for a month without any interruption.

250 TBPS
As years go by, technology takes the Internet to new heights. This time, it is the invention of a technique enabling telecom companies to send up to 250 TBPS. According to engineers, this is more than the amount of data flowing through the Internet during peak hours. If this becomes available to an end-user, a 1GB movie will get transferred to your computer from a website within 0.03 milliseconds. This was made possible by adding more fibers into the current single-layer one. This they say would replace the present single-layered cable network. However, integrating the innovation into the infrastructure is going to be a difficult job. The industry will have to replace cables spreading millions of miles.

Limit exists just in imagination
Reports say that even the limit mentioned earlier is an imagination. A group of engineers were able to prove this observation. In fact, they increased the Internet speed up to 20 times more than what is available at present. The great thing is that these scientists were able to change the general characteristic of optic fibre cables. According to them, if the power becomes too much, the LACER lights starts interfering with each other. At the end, the signal gets quite low that the information becomes unavailable.

The frequency comb
Scientists decided to address this concern. They developed a technique called whitebands (frequency combs). They adjust the streams of data being sent through the cable in such a way that the distortion at every stage became predictable. The end receiver was able to decode this signals into recognizable information.  Engineers feel that this needs much improvement. However, they are optimistic that in the near future, these findings would help service providers handle the ever-increasing traffic on the Internet.

Research has moved into different directions. But, the interesting thing is that our networks are not equipped to handle this sheer increase in volume. The current maximum data fibre optic cables can handle will exceed the demands of the worldwide web today. All this will have to wait at least for a few years before coming into existence.