Author: Saifudin

In 2012, a team of Japanese and Danish researchers set a world record, transmitting 1 petabit of data that’s 10,000 hours of hight-def video, over a fifty-kilometer cable in a second. This wasn’t just any cable, it was a souped-up version of fiber optics, the hidden network that link our planet and make the internet possible.  For decades, long-distance communications between cities and countries were carried by electrical signals, in wires made of cooper. This was slow and inefficient, with metal wires limiting data rates and power lost as wasted heat.  But in the late 20th century, engineers mastered...