I excerpted this from the Silkroad site:
Scientific Breakthrough Announced
in Fiber Optics — Patented technology
demonstrates transmission rate of more
than 90 gigabits/sec. over 100
kilometers of fiber without amplification,
using a single wavelength
NEW YORK, November 3, 1998 - A
significant breakthrough was announced
today in telecommunications which is
expected to have immediate impact on
the industry and businesses which
depend on fiber networks for their
communications.
A newly patented technology was
unveiled that exponentially increases the
amount of information that can be
carried along a single strand of fiber
optic cable using a single wavelength of
light. SilkRoad, Inc., the developers of
the technology, anticipates numerous
applications for telecommunications
network operating companies and many
industries that transmit large amounts of
data through these networks. [Editors'
note: Please see related 11/3/98
releases regarding the unveiling of
SilkRoad's technology.]
The new technology, called SilkRoad
Refractive Synchronization
Communication (SRSC®), has been
proven to convey as much as 200
gigabits (109) per second of information
through a fiber optic cable and has the
potential to transmit at 10 terabits (1012)
per second, the capacity limit of the fiber
cable itself.
SilkRoad President and Chief Executive
Officer, Kevin C. Doria, today unveiled
the technology to business executives,
analysts and the media in New York
City. In a dramatic demonstration, 840
channels of satellite programming were
transmitted 100 kilometers over a fiber
optic cable at 93 gigabits per second
using only a single laser.
"The Information Age has provided us
with numerous, wonderful technologies,
including the Internet and video
conferencing, but also presents the
world with great difficulties in accessing
that information," said Mr. Doria. "Today
our technology speaks for itself. The
SilkRoad Solution significantly
transcends conventional concepts of
information technology to achieve real
time interactive communications."
Current technologies, such as
Wavelength Division Multiplexing
(WDM), are able to transmit information
at a rate of as much as 40 gigabits per
second, but do so through a complex
process using multiple wavelengths that
requires many expensive lasers and
other equipment to generate the signals
and keep them stable over long
distances. The commercial application of
such technologies has been questioned
due to the inherent costs associated
with procuring and operating such
expensive infrastructure equipment.
SilkRoad's SRSC technology was
developed by the Company's Chairman
and Chief Technical Officer, Dr. James
R. Palmer, JD, PhD. The U.S Patent
Office confirmed acceptance on October
6, 1998 of SilkRoad's initial application
covering 52 claims. Additional patents
are pending.
SilkRoad's technology addresses the
most fundamental challenges associated
with today's need for more bandwidth.
Four guiding principles, Bandwidth,
Accessibility, Scalability and Simplicity
(BASS), drive this solution:
Bandwidth: SilkRoad's proprietary
transmitter/receiver has the
potential to transmit up to the
theoretical limit of the fiber-carrying
capacity — 10 terabits/sec. of
information of voice, video and data,
bi-directionally on a single
wavelength.
Accessibility: SilkRoad's
technology allows networks to
access, retrieve and add/drop data
from the fiber-optic network
seamlessly without disturbing other
transmissions, maintaining the
necessary performance monitoring
and protection capabilities required
in a mission-critical network.
Scalability: SilkRoad's solution is
scalable. The technology will support
and form the basis for the entire
communications network
infrastructure-from the long-distance
backbone and Internet providers all
the way to the individual user's
desktop computer or interactive
set-top environment.
Simplicity: Current technologies
such as wavelength division
multiplexing use multiple lasers and
wavelengths per strand of fiber,
SilkRoad's SRSC uses only one
laser. WDM's 16 lasers combined
have been proven to transmit at an
upper limit of 40 gigabits/second,
over a distance of 40 to 60 miles on
fiber optic cable without
amplification. SilkRoad's current
technology can transmit up to 200
gigabits/second as far as 200 miles
on a single wavelength on the same
fiber cable.
I think you should get familiar with this even though this company's product may not be the killer box. CSCO and FORE depend upon ethernet which is an antiquated, inefficient means of transfer. It is almost laughable to send anything but light down a fiber optic cable from end to end. Pure will be substantially here in two all the way to the STB. Go throw that at the CSCO empire which is Cretaceous about to meet the KT Boundary. Hopefully FORE is a bird. |
