New record – Siemens researchers achieve transmission rates of 107 Gbits per second

New record – Siemens researchers achieve transmission rates of 107 Gbits per second over a single fiber channel using purely electric processing in transmitter and receiver

In cooperation with Micram, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) and Eindhoven Technical University, Siemens has successfully tested the network of the future. This involved the 100% electrical processing of data rates of 107 Gbits per second and transmission over a 100 mile long fiber-optic route in the U.S. – the first time this has ever been done outside the laboratory. The record performance was made possible by a newly developed transmission and receiving system that processes the data by purely electrical means directly before and after its conversion into optical signals. The test was conducted at a long-haul network at one of world’s largest optical network operators, in which Siemens has previously deployed a 40 Gbits per second optical network for commercial use. More...