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New Plastic Optical Fiber Technology May Revolutionize High Speed Last-Mile Communication Networks

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It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.
Plastic optical fibre (POF) for data transmission is often described as the “consumer” version of glass optical fibre, the kind that makes [...]

G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc

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General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.
The storage advance, which G.E. is announcing on Monday, is just a laboratory success at this stage. The new technology must be made to work in products that can be mass-produced at [...]