One Petabit per Second Fiber Transmission over a Record Distance of 200 km - Paving the Way to Realizing the 1000 km Inline Optical Amplified Transmission Systems within C band only -
(World News Science)

March 23, 2017 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO Hiroo Unoura) demonstrated ultra-large capacity inline optical amplified transmission of 1 petabit (1000 terabit) per second over a 205.6 km length of 32-core (light paths) optical fiber in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU, Lyngby, Denmark, President Anders Overgaard Bjarklev), Fujikura Ltd. (Fujikura, Koto-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO Masahiko Ito), Hokkaido University (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Hokkaido, President Keizo Yamaguchi), the University of Southampton (UOS, Southampton, UK, President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Chris Snowden), and Coriant GmbH (COR,...