What will optical communications be capable of in the next decade? Transmission of 10 Tbit sā1 over a single fibre and a reconfigurable transparent network are two possibilities.
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Jinno, M., Miyamoto, Y. & Hibino, Y. Optical-transport networks in 2015. Nature Photon 1, 157ā159 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.18
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