Plastic optical fiber, submarine optical cable - Fiber News

According to the U.S. recently published reports from Boston, Massachusetts, the company developed a plastic optical fiber, its transmission rate faster than the current 30 times the standard copper wire and glass fiber than the light weight, flexible, low cost. This optical fiber using light refraction or optical fibers within the jump in the way to reach high speeds and in the 100 meters to 3 megabits per second data transfer. Currently, the world has been the laying of submarine cables of 37 million km, the length of almost 10 laps around the Earth. Moreover, since both ends of the laser, the transmission is no longer need to enlarge the repeater signal, so that it will greatly reduce the cost of the call costs reduced accordingly. According to reports, the world's largest capacity submarine cable connecting Europe and America will be opened this year. This connection around the world undersea fiber-optic communication cable is being laid, and that this is the 20th century, the most ambitious communications project, to be the world's 30 international telecommunications organizations. It across the Atlantic, across the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, through the Malacca Strait into the Pacific Ocean. Total length of nearly 32 million km, connecting 175 countries and regions, can also make phone calls or 2.4 million one hundred thousand simultaneous transmission of several compressed images. The entire project will cost $ 14 billion, is expected to be completed in 2003.