Am I to understand that the cable use has multiple cores within a single cladding? Interesting approach…
Now we get to classify them as singlemode, multimode, and multiestmode.
The breakthrough isn’t things moving faster but more fibers per cable.
No, it’s actually more cores per fiber, and using those very well for space division multiplexing on top of the normal wavelength division multiplexing. They are talking about 22.9 Pb/s per fiber, not cable, the Tom’s Hardware article is just wrong.
Cables can already contain hundreds of fibers, for example 576 here or into the thousands if you use stacks of ribbon cables in the subunits, for example 3456 here
aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This is really interesting. Thank you for providing good insight!
bassomitron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here’s a source that backs up what you’re talking about and proving that the TomsHardware article is wrong: www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2023/11/30-1.html
Kazumara@feddit.de 11 months ago
Thank you!
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, thanks to all for contributing and assisting. I am grateful for the clarification and leg work. Folks say reddit had this, and lemmy has less, so every time I see it, I make sure to appreciate it.