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IBM Unveils a Prototype Green Optical Network Technology for Sharing Huge Files in Seconds

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

IBM researchers unveiled a prototype technology that could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy efficient way to all kinds of machines — from supercomputers to cell phones — that could revolutionize the way people access, use and share information across many different applications. The new technology uses light instead of wires to send information and could allow, for example, the transmission of 8 trillion bits (terabits) per second of information — equivalent t...

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