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Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2014

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KOREA’S KT Corporation has developed

technology to enable copper telephone

cables to provide Internet service at

speeds “never before accomplished”.

The company exhibited its technology

during the Mobile World Congress at the

end of February.

Many old buildings still use copper

telephone cables with optical cable or

unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cables to

provide an Internet service, but services

through copper wire using VDSL (very

high bit-rate DSL) are limited to

100Mbps.

KT has announced its FTTH-G solution,

said to provide a two-way service of at

least 200Mbps using a pair of telephone

lines. KT said download speeds could

be much faster than 200Mbps. For

example, download speed can be

300Mbps if the upload speed is reduced

to 100Mbps.

KT’s FTTH-G solution saves building

owners the cost of replacing copper

wires with more advanced cables, the

company said, and it will run a pilot

project for the technology in some older

apartment buildings in Gangnam district

to demonstrate the service.

“We will further enhance FTTH-G and

create a technology that provides at

least 300Mbps Internet speed next

year,” said a KT official. “We will utilise

various types of wires and enable old

buildings to provide Internet at giga-

bytes-per-second speeds.”

KT Corporation – South Korea

Website

:

www.kt.com

High speed copper Internet

Cutting the fibre optic connecting costs by half

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd and Furukawa Electric Co Ltd have collaborated to

develop a new multi-fibre optical connector to join and align multiple optical

fibres for optical interconnects.

The conventional method of connecting optical fibres is an expensive

process, requiring high-precision polishing to align the tips of the fibres.

Fujitsu Laboratories and Furukawa Electric have developed a connector that

can accommodate different lengths of optical fibre and which, with a spring

mechanism that obviates the need for the polishing process, will cut the

costs of connecting optical fibres by half.

This new connector is said to achieve performance on a par with

conventional connectors while simplifying the task of installing

high-capacity optical interconnects. It is anticipated that the technology will

increase data transmission speed between boards, so increasing overall

server performance.

Furukawa Electric Co Ltd – Japan

Website

:

www.furukawa.co.jp

Models show KT’s FTTH-G technology at the company’s booth during the Mobile World

Congress in Barcelona. Photograph courtesy of KT