South Korea, the world’s most wired nation, continues to push the envelope on the speed of the broadband Internet and looks set to make 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) a commercial possibility.
The state-backed Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said yesterday that it had developed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) solutions that efficiently enable 1Gbps of data transmission speed.
“Thus far, only 16 customers can subscribe to 1Gbps services on a single optical fiber line. That is one of the main barriers to the commercial debut of the 1Gbps Internet,” said Kim Byoung-hwi, an official at the Taejon-based institute, about 200 kilometers south of Seoul.
“However, we have created technology taking advantage of various length frames of optical fiber, increasing the number 32 fold to 512 users per cable,” Kim said.
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