The cable ship Global Sentinel has completed surveying Unity cable which links Japan and the United States. Unity Cable starts in Japan and terminates in Hermosa Beach, California. The cable was completed in April 2010 and has five fiber pairs, with each fiber pair capable of carrying up to 960 Gigabits per second (Gbps). By […]
NASA is preparing to test a new, laser-based communications system that will link up satellites in space with base stations on the ground, reports The Verge. It would provide speeds six times faster, say NASA officials. The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) would be integrated onto the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. […]
Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that telecommunications firms are moving forward with projects that were unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London through the Artic Circle. The route is the shortest underwater path between Tokyo and London. The proposed systems will nearly cut in […]
Governments and carriers are cooperating on fiber to the home proposals, most notably in Austalia and recently in Hawaii. But other areas are getting on board the fast train. Hyperoptic is offering select residents of London access to 1 Gbps fiber to the home for £50 ($79) per month (in multi-dwelling buildings only). Virgin’s 100Mbps […]
A new development on the shores of Lake Ontario will offer Internet connections 500 times faster than most homes, offering speeds of up to 10 gigabits a second for businesses or 100 megabits for residential use. It’s modeled on similar undertakings in Seoul, Tokyo, Stockholm, London and Paris. The Toronto broadband project is expected to […]
The EU-financed SARTRE project has carried out the first successful demonstration of its vehicle platooning technology at the Volvo Proving Ground in Sweden. Vehicle platooning is a convoy of vehicles, where a driver in a lead vehicle drives a line of other vehicles. Each car measures the distance, speed and direction and adjusts to the […]
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