Using light to transmit data

The internet of tomorrow: Faster, better and cheaper: ""CIAN is aimed at transforming the Internet to a high-speed network that uses less energy, is more reliable so that it reconfigures itself around network impairments, is scalable to make it suitable for a growing number of end users, and is not too costly," said Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and aasers in the College of Optical Sciences at the UA."

Of course it was a few million from the government that got this on track a few years back. Tell that to the evil Koch Brothers.

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