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by mstresh
2193 days ago
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Figure 3 in this open-access paper [0] provides historical scaling trends in optical fiber communication (transport) compared to generation and processing. Depending on the time period under study, bandwidth increases at between 20% and 100% per year. Though the improvement in transistor economics has definitely benefited transport, the large bulk of improvement over time is due to breakthroughs in manufacturing, materials science, semiconductor optics, and signal processing. [0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7839935 |
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