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Article: Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs scientists set new fiber optic transmission record; Bell Labs scientists transmit 64 channels of data at 40 gigabits per second per channel over 4000 kilometers (2500 miles).
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- March 22, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 March 2002-Lucent Technologies: Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs scientists set new fiber optic transmission record; Bell Labs scientists transmit 64 channels of data at 40 gigabits per second per channel over 4000 kilometers (2500 miles) (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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ANAHEIM, Calif., and MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Scientists from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), have doubled the distance record for high-bandwidth, ultra long-distance transmission by sending 2.56 terabits (trillion bits) of information per second over a distance of 4000 kilometers (2500 miles), roughly the ...