wiredInUSA November 2017

Celebration time for Corning

Long history of optical fiber

Corning Incorporated has delivered its one billionth kilometer of optical fiber.

technologies to enable 4G densification and the transition to 5G, FTTH amenities, and advanced business services. Ericsson, Telstra and Ciena have successfully trialled continuous data encryption across multiple cable systems, maintaining speed and reliability for over 21,940km. The demonstration, between Los Angeles and Melbourne, used Ciena’s ultra-low latency 100Gbps wire-speed encryption technology. The secure encryption solution is expected to be of special interest to organizations with high security obligations, such as those in the finance, healthcare, defense and government sectors, as well as data center operators.

The company celebrated with an event at its optical fiber manufacturing facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, the first optical fiber manufacturing facility and still among the world’s largest. Corning developed its first low-loss optical fiber in 1970, and since that time its optical fiber has been deployed in hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, from long-haul and submarine networks to access networks and data centers. With its virtually unlimited bandwidth- carrying capacity, durability and simple installation techniques, optical fiber will continue to be critical in building next- generation networks and delivering the

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