Indian-Origin Engineer Devises A New Fiber Technology that Could Significantly Increase Bandwidth

Introduction

 A team of engineers led by Indian-origin US Researcher and Engineering Professor Siddharth Ramachandran has devised a new fibre technology that commits to significantly increase bandwidth. The new technology has the potential to enable internet providers offer much greater connectivity.

The reported research is a close collaboration between optical fiber experts at BU and optical communication systems experts at the the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

"Siddharth's fiber represents a very unique and valuable innovation. It was great to work together to demonstrate a terabit-per-second capacity transmission link," said Alan Willner, electrical engineering professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

The research was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The technology comes at a critical time, as one of the main strategies to boost Internet bandwidth is running into roadblocks just as mobile devices fuel rapidly growing demands on the internet.

Source

India Brand Equity Foundation, July 08, 2013