What is fibre optics?
You hear a lot about fibre optics these days, but what exactly is it? Fibre optics are thin fibres of glass that makes it possible to transmit data in the form of light, and therefore to move them at the speed of light! Fibre optics substantially increases speed, responding to the increasing demands of telecommunications technologies. Fibre optics found its raison d’être in 1995 with the rise of the Internet. At the beginning of the 1990s, the transmission capacity of telecommunications networks doubled every two years. Since 1995, data traffic (text, video, images, sound) has been increasing by 300% per year… As an example, a traditional copper wire supports 100 simultaneous phone conversations; fibre optics boosts this figure to more than 70,000 and in the years to come, it will jump to more than one million.
