The future of the internet may not lie in more powerful servers or bigger data centers, but in a strand of glass that is—ironically—mostly empty. Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a radical new hollow-core optical fiber that carries light through air instead of solid glass. The result? Data that moves faster, farther, and with a thousand times more transmission power than today’s networks can handle.
This isn’t just a tweak to existing fiber optics—it’s a potential upheaval in how the world moves information.
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