mishlert
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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:02 am Post subject: Siemens Says Sets Network Speed Record |
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Wed Dec 20, 11:22 AM ET
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Siemens AG has set a new speed record for electrical processing of data through a fiber-optic cable, it said on Wednesday, opening the possibility of cheaper Internet and data networks.
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Siemens (SIEGn.DE) said in a statement it had processed data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second -- roughly two full DVDs per second -- and sent it over a single optical fiber channel in a 100 mile-long (161-kilometre) U.S. network, the first time outside of a laboratory.
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